US elevator Traction @ Allied Arts Building Lynchburg VA

This is the elevator at the Allied Arts Building in Lynchburg. I already photographed this elevator but today the Lynchburg News & Advance did a photoshoot of me here because I am going to be featured in the News & Advance Newspaper.

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[robertwigfield12]

My dad owns this building!!!

[dieselducy]

@robertwigfield12 well that is an awesome building!!!! I love it!

[robertwigfield12]

@dieselducy Yeah.....i love the tin ceiling!!! and the weiner store!! haha one time my dad got sued because a lady slipped on the step out of the weiner store

[dieselducy]

@robertwigfield12 I love the elevators here. I am going to film them again soon with my new camera.

[TickleFromGulfBreeze]

so if it was modernized, what year would it have been modernized?

[dieselducy]

In the 1980s..

[geekwheels]

and curious onlookers, that the Allied Arts Group, an out-of-state consortium of silent investors, had agreed to buy the Tower (for pennies on the dollar, however). The Allied Arts Building officially opened six months later with a new name and a newly-retrofitted elevator. Ironically, Joseph Oppenmeyer, forced into bankruptcy in the meantime, spent the remaining five years of his life as an employee of the Allied Arts Group - operating the elevator.

[geekwheels]

could secure a grandfather clause for the Oppenmeyer Tower, which stood on June 30th completed but empty, lacking an all-important occupancy permit. On the first day of July 1931, in total dismay and disgust over the situation, Oppenmeyer publicly vowed to hurl himself nude from the building's pinnacle at noon on the rapidly-approaching July 4th holiday. His demise was averted, however, mid-morning of the 4th, when it was announced to the gathered crowd of newspaper reported

[geekwheels]

much-anticipated July 4th, 1931 grand opening, when the Federal Land and Buildings Commission passed a national ordinance that required any building over four stories tall to include an elevator. The Elevator Ordinance, as it was later referred to, infuriated the cash-strapped Oppenmeyer, who was badly in need of tenant income, as his fortune had been in slow but sure decline since the onset of the Depression. No amount of last-minute political lobbying in Washington

[geekwheels]

The seventeen-story Allied Arts Building has been a downtown Lynchburg landmark and source of civic pride for over seventy years, but the controversy surrounding its construction has been largely forgotten. Joseph J. Oppenmeyer, a newly-transplanted European diamond mogul, commissioned the building's design and construction in 1929. The final design, unbelievable by today's sensibilities, did not include an elevator. Construction had been steadily progressing for three years and was only 2 weeks

[chawkl1]

@TickleFromGulfBreeze 

[mjbruce11]

here are some ideas please do theme i am a huge elevator fan . u should do one at Children hospital in Boston Massachusetts and Wellington train station in medford Massachusetts, Bunker hill Community college in charlestown Massachusetts, meadow glen mall medford ma please do it and right back asap i am a HUGE ELEVATOR FAN AND BESIDES UR VIDEOS ARE THE BEST VIDEOS IN THE WORLD AND DIESELDUCY RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!! RIGHT BACK ASAP