Going up on the Fast Schindler Elevators at Sears/Willis Tower Skydeck in Chicago
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Video of the ride on famous elevators at the Sears Tower in Downtown Chicago, Illinois. These elevators are some of the fastest in North America, reaching a top speed of 18.2 mph or 29.3 km/h. The fastest elevators in North America are located at the John Hancock Center in Chicago and the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas, which reach a top speed of 20.5 mph or 33.14 km/h.
==Skydeck Elevator Specifications==
Manufacture: Westinghouse Electric
Elevator Type: DC Gearless Traction
Capacity: 4000 lbs. (1818.2 kg)
Year Installed: 1973
Elevator Bank Size: 2
Floors Served: LL2, 99, 103
Speed: 1600 FPM (8.18 m/s)
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I have been in the winch room for these elevators. It was awesome!
That sounds awesome! I really hope you can get a button panel from here once the remaining elevators get modernized.
Beuh
This one just popped up in my recommendations. Nice dose of nostalgia.
I Went to Chicago Last week and went to the top of the skydeck !!! your Ears will POP !! While on the Elevator Going up that Buliding it is VERY TALL !!! It is so Fun Stepping out onto the Glass skyDeck.
Imagine how large the machines are! They must be massive!
Are these fast
@@jonathanstarling1082should be they say they go 18 mph
These fast elevators are going on my bucket list!
The way this dude says “woow” 😂
YEEEE
woowah
I’ve been to that observation deck. And it was a lot of fun
I visited the Willis Tower 2 years ago, and they had a completely different film on the TV!
Wow...That's a TALL building!! I've never been to a big city like Chicago before. In fact, the tallest building I've been in is a 19 story building and I thought THAT was super tall...LOL!
The Shields Willis Tower is the second tallest building in the U.S. There are taller buildings than Willis Tower, believe me.
This is the tallest building in the US. The WTC 1's 400ft stick shouldn't count.
the tallest I've seen is in Toronto/Ontario/Canada it's 45 floors tall!!!!!😃
The Shields tallest I've been in was 105 floors but the tallest lift I have ever ridden by myself was 30 floors it was so fast it made NASA space jets slow
103rd floor, the floor that reach from the bottom in 60 seconds (1 minute) as it takes for the video to the 103rd floor over Skydeck at the Sears Tower. Lately I visit Chicago, IL this summer.
I will never forget going up to the top on my 8th bday in 2002. I just got an American girl doll earlier too and I held on to her for dear life.
As of 2009, this is now the Willis tower, the bird videos were replaced with a boring video which just shows skyscrapers on the way up, and facts while going down, the 2 buildings on the walls on floor 103 were painted over and now has a big 103 on it
They had to say "long distance fall!" Makes me feel real safe about going to the top of that building.
My ears popped and I couldn't hear for 30 minutes after I got on, then when I got off another 30 minutes. Sears tower forever.
:D I love Chicago.
when we were on the elevator, you could literally hear peoples' ears pop. it was CRAZY
Woah! This tower is huge
The company Willis buy this tower from Sears.
Sears Tower is now Willis Tower.
ok, why did you press the button when the door was already open????
I like the contrast between this one and that service elevator that stops every 30-40 floors
The elevators here on Skyscrapersim are still Westinghhouse but with replaced call buttons.
Wow, have they really renovated the cabs and fixtures. Last time I was up there it was 25 years ago. From what i remember in the cab, there was no floor indicator, just a picture of the building with an orange progress bar.
just went up there last weekend, i love taht little cartoon LOL!
Do you have to press the floor buttons now? When I was there there was just a send button outside in the hall. It was kinda neat actually.
I love going there and do so quite often!
Going up I think would be more scary. But down, would make you sick. Good video MusicFreakCC
I've been there before. When I was in the elevator my head felt like it was gonna explode because of all the pressure because I was so high up ( not on drugs ). Going down was worse.XD
PaulDuhTaco same on the thyssenkrupps at WTC
Did you float or slam into the ceiling going down?
How much does it cost to take a trip up there? I might take a trip downtown this thanksgiving weekend to see grandma... I don't think she'll want to go though lol
I got to experience this in November 2010!
Over 100 floors?!
Unbelieveable!
--Tracy
I went to the sky deck one time, and they jammed so many people on the elevator that the alarms went off. Now I have a huge fear of getting stuck in one.
Can't wait til the Old chicago Post Office Hotel is finished, it will be 2000 feet. Same with the Chicago spire. The Willis tower soon will be the new John Hancock building.
james robbins liar
That elevated quickly
Underrated reply
@YamiPoyo because the are the only 2 floors with the skydecks the rest are pretty much business rooms only.
The Sears Tower elevators in Downtown Chicago are awesome! This counts the TV and how fast it is! :D
are you still here
You wanna see some really fast elevators? You should go to the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, the Columbia Center in Seattle, and the JP Morgan Chase Tower in Houston.
Proud to come from IL
I’ve been to that tower back in 2013
@WWEIsTheAwesome No, this is the tourist elevator. There is a service elevator for employees. I have had multiple family members work there. So I have had a tour of the whole building.
i went on that today. it was crazy fast. i also like the skybox thing. its cool
what if you want to go to floor 50 or 60??? there are only buttons for floor 99 and 103... imagine walking up there.
I went there last 2 months or 1 month so fun!
These are NOT Otis. Otis did the John Hancock Tower. These are Westinghouse and modernized by Schindler.
One of the very first skyscrapers I have been in
I remember buying a figurine of the tower and the 1/4 of the very top of the figurine broke off and I had to super glue it back
been in there so many times. I love chicago so much. bout time to move back i think
that elevator looks just like the elevator in the world trade center videos i saw, the red numbers are the same and everything...hmmm weird.. and i found out that both buildings and the sears tower were built in the same year :O
this guy doesnt need a stairway to heaven, he can just take the elevator! lol
my ears popped like 8 times while going up this elevator it was traveling like 2 floors per second
what if you wanted to go to floor 11? why does it only go by tens?
@SHAWN119100 THis is the elevator for the observation deck / tourists. If you work in the Sears / Willis Tower you use different elevators that actually stop @ the other floors.
OMG this video Upload at November 2008
12 years ago
1st of all, I love how they don't consider this a terrorist threat yet Simon malls think the worst. Also what are on floors 10, 20, 30 etc.?
Love this elevator and very fast
im always afraid of elevators but now i love it
Your ears feel weird while going up! XD
@norxcontacts Not anymore. They now tell you how high up you are as compared to, for example, the sphinx. (There are other comparisons it gives you, but I can't think of any more at the moment.)
i went up there. did u know tht the top of the building actually moves
Those are Westinghouse elevators. Looks like the hall call button is original.
What about the John Hancock Center
CN tower isnt 5 times taller, it's skinny needle at the top is taller than the roof, it's skydeck is well below Sear's tower skydeck.
I'm going on Tuesday. I'm so excited! ^ . ^ CAN'T WAIT. ASDFGHJKL
What is on 99?
alpalJL Lunch in the Sky VIP dining rooms.
Not too many floors to choose from the panel, but all the same I found the video "uplifting". :-)
Looks like the one was basement 2? LL2
Then 99 and 103
Why is it only floor 99 and 102?
The elevator is a Westinghouse
@WWEIsTheAwesome So if i worked there how do i get to my office? stairs?
no freakin' way..........I would freak the heck out
You're absolutely right!
18 mph! To the 103rd floor my ears are really going to pop
Haha wow. It's Willis. "I know lots about the sears tower". Lol
did everybody's ears pop?
or is it pressureized like an airplane?
@ecn10111 It's an express elevator.
@spartan4480 Yeah, and it has emergency elevator doors in between those three floors, just in case!
Why was there talking Penguins on the TV when the elevator went up?
@wawawis I would think that covers the cost of a floor with a stop. Floors without a stop are probably much less.
I went last July. It was excellent timing! The glass balconies had just opened, and it was still called the Sears Tower. Willis Tower sounds too wimpy to be American.
Press the buttons
i went there two times one was with my cousin and other with my parents, the first time that i went there i was feeling bad when the elevator was going up!! lol
There's just a thing I don't like...the interior display showing the floors' decades only, like the Empire State Building elevators.
I loved the displays in the World Trade Center elevators, that used to show every floors from the ground level to the 107th floor.
Camera: Casio EX-Z77
Mic: Built in
...what you takin bout Willis Tower?
I was there last week and they put like 50 people in the elavator
when i went up sears tower\willis tower one of the elevators were in fire service and i only went to 99 because they were putting in the glass boxes.
The elevator we rode on didnt have those birds in them though, Im glad they didnt.
Holy crap im in this video. it shows me for a second O_O
THAT IS THE TALLEST TOWER IN THE WORLD!
You forgot the Burj Khalifa
@larlar752000 Why does your dad watch TV in an elevator?
krass ey! in knapp 6 sekunden 10 stockwerke...o_O sick dude
It's an express zone. In other words; it does not serve those floors.
how was it!! :D
crazy tourists....geeeee willackers pa', I aint seen this far since i stood on mamas shoulders on our mobile home....whoooooo..weeeee...!
Yeah I've been on those elevators they are really fast
Imagine if the fire alarm went off and then elevator shuts down. It will be a nice job to evacuate 1000 people from the top floor!
😯
Its awesome! :D
im gonna go there this summer probably and im not afriad of heights,i LOVE heights, i love the way how i feel like im on top of the planet lol
@musicfreakcc How fast do these go?
18mph about 30km/h
I know that the simple 2-stop elevators start out around &65K and could cost as much as $90K. I've also heard to budget 20K~40K per floor. That said, these elevators must be astronomical in cost, somewhere between 2~4 million dollars each.
Shit gets scary in the 70s
It's an express elevator. You'd have to go to floor 99 or 103 and find a different elevator.
Is it traction or hydraulic
That is definitely a traction elevator.
Almost anything taller then 6 stories is a traction.
These are gear-less traction where the sheave is connected directly to the armature (rotor) of the motor with 1:1 roping. Gear-less traction (overhead) machines are installed in high rise buildings, with over 24 floors. Low to mid rise buildings often have MRL gear-less, or geared overhead traction.
I went here today.. when you go on the elavator your ears pop for how fast its going.