Ahh for the love of Freight Elevators! I actually visited King of Prussia in 1973. I was in college in Ohio and my girlfriend at the time grew up there, and she took me home with her, over Christmas break. Can't say that I remember much about the town, but I have found memories of staying with my girlfriends parents and siblings. She was one of 5 siblings, each one was creative. So their holiday decorations, consisted of plastic angels, representing each kid's talents. In every size displayed through out their house. Tiny ones on the mantel, made of porcelain, and large plastic ones on all the tables. (It was oppressive with holiday clap-trap) One angel is playing a viola, another a violin, one is on a piano, and another a clarinet. My friend was a fine artist, and her angel was painting on a easel. The most unique thing about my visit was her family substituted margarine or butter for GROSS, PAN DRIPPINGS. So our breakfast toast and eggs were cooked in and covered with THAT STANKY, LARD, WITH BITS OF OLD MEAT IN IT.....YUCK! Sweet girl, a talented artist , with a killer sense of humor.
Amtech mostly did service & mods. in eastern PA. They might've done new installs but if so they were probably completely generic. The "installer" on the records for this says General, which is a possibility because of the GAL, but at the same time that could very well be incorrect.
9/2024,...For the love of freight elevators! I was lucky to have my art studio in a building built in 1900. It was a fascinating old warehouse & light industrial building. ( this was back in the 1980s) There was a barely working, 1900s era freight elevator, similar to the one you are riding in. It was large enough to hold a 1950s-60s VW Beetle, with some extra room to stand in. It was painted black steel, very raw and old. The steel had old time rivets, holding it together. There were no side walls, they were just sheets of heavy black steel with black grating in a diamond pattern. You could see the inner walls of the sooty elevator shaft, as it traveled along. The archaic turn of the century motor groaned, moaned and gnashed loudly, and it felt as though the whole thing might stop working at any minute. The elevator car was only lit by a single bare bulb,....so it was super scary to ride in it. We,..(me and some fellow artists) only had to use the freight elevator once every other month, to bring in art supplies, raw building materials, or move medium sized art work out, to be shipped off to exhibits. To operate the elevator, it was extremely primitive. The was an ON switch for the assist motor, that hummed ominously. To move the car up or down, we had to manually pull a greasy black cable, that could only be reached through an opening on one side of the elevator car. Pulling the cable released the COUNTER WEIGHTS, and then the motor would assist the car upward or downward. It was even sketchier to stop the car,.....it required pulling the front gate up manually, when the car was level with the floor, you were getting off on. Using it was nightmarish and sort of fun. Certainly Memorable.
It's a pretty nice mall. The elevators aren't the most exciting, but they are famous so you'll certainly get views from them, and there are a few older Freights here with EPCO Flushline that are slowly disappearing in the mall that I'd recommend getting as who knows how long it'll be till they're all gone.
@@FloridianElevatorsI’ve been to KOP when I was younger, and I wasn’t able to get the freighter here cause my grandpa wasn’t a fan of ‘stealth freight elevator hopping,’ but I got the vintage Westy at Bloomingdale’s, the Schindler RT at JcPenney, as well as the old random passenger elevator with the old EPCO Flushline buttons. I hope to make it here again.
Everybody in the RUclips elevator filmier community knows of THIS THING! This elevator is probably one of the most over-filmed and iconic elevators on the internet (along with the ones at the Marriott Marquis, both the ATL and NYC ones...)
I’m pretty sure it was an Otis with GAL (like the former one at sears) and I believe it was modded by Amtech as I have seen an Amtech Reliable elevator in the area.
@EFCE Pennsylvania elevator records indicate that this was originally installed by General, but that's obviously not accurate. According to Aaron, elevator records can sometimes be inaccurate.
Oh boy. THIS thing 🤣
Ahh for the love of Freight Elevators! I actually visited King of Prussia in 1973. I was in college in Ohio and my girlfriend at the time grew up there, and she took me home with her, over Christmas break. Can't say that I remember much about the town, but I have found memories of staying with my girlfriends parents and siblings. She was one of 5 siblings, each one was creative. So their holiday decorations, consisted of plastic angels, representing each kid's talents. In every size displayed through out their house. Tiny ones on the mantel, made of porcelain, and large plastic ones on all the tables. (It was oppressive with holiday clap-trap) One angel is playing a viola, another a violin, one is on a piano, and another a clarinet. My friend was a fine artist, and her angel was painting on a easel. The most unique thing about my visit was her family substituted margarine or butter for GROSS, PAN DRIPPINGS. So our breakfast toast and eggs were cooked in and covered with THAT STANKY, LARD, WITH BITS OF OLD MEAT IN IT.....YUCK! Sweet girl, a talented artist , with a killer sense of humor.
That reminds me of the one in Atlanta Georgia at club Galleria
I filmed here almost a year and a half ago, making this my first freight elevator.
Amtech mostly did service & mods. in eastern PA. They might've done new installs but if so they were probably completely generic. The "installer" on the records for this says General, which is a possibility because of the GAL, but at the same time that could very well be incorrect.
9/2024,...For the love of freight elevators! I was lucky to have my art studio in a building built in 1900. It was a fascinating old warehouse & light industrial building. ( this was back in the 1980s) There was a barely working, 1900s era freight elevator, similar to the one you are riding in. It was large enough to hold a 1950s-60s VW Beetle, with some extra room to stand in. It was painted black steel, very raw and old. The steel had old time rivets, holding it together. There were no side walls, they were just sheets of heavy black steel with black grating in a diamond pattern. You could see the inner walls of the sooty elevator shaft, as it traveled along. The archaic turn of the century motor groaned, moaned and gnashed loudly, and it felt as though the whole thing might stop working at any minute. The elevator car was only lit by a single bare bulb,....so it was super scary to ride in it. We,..(me and some fellow artists) only had to use the freight elevator once every other month, to bring in art supplies, raw building materials, or move medium sized art work out, to be shipped off to exhibits. To operate the elevator, it was extremely primitive. The was an ON switch for the assist motor, that hummed ominously. To move the car up or down, we had to manually pull a greasy black cable, that could only be reached through an opening on one side of the elevator car. Pulling the cable released the COUNTER WEIGHTS, and then the motor would assist the car upward or downward. It was even sketchier to stop the car,.....it required pulling the front gate up manually, when the car was level with the floor, you were getting off on. Using it was nightmarish and sort of fun. Certainly Memorable.
I have to visit KOP again
Daniel and I are hoping to do KOP when we do our Philly trip. Hoping to do that sooner than later.
It's a pretty nice mall. The elevators aren't the most exciting, but they are famous so you'll certainly get views from them, and there are a few older Freights here with EPCO Flushline that are slowly disappearing in the mall that I'd recommend getting as who knows how long it'll be till they're all gone.
@@FloridianElevatorsI’ve been to KOP when I was younger, and I wasn’t able to get the freighter here cause my grandpa wasn’t a fan of ‘stealth freight elevator hopping,’ but I got the vintage Westy at Bloomingdale’s, the Schindler RT at JcPenney, as well as the old random passenger elevator with the old EPCO Flushline buttons. I hope to make it here again.
@@FloridianElevatorsThe Loading Area B freight and the Both Elevators at Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s are all original from 1981.
This elevator has seen its fair share of dismembered bodies in barrels and trash bags
I'm still surprised they never modernized these two, considering these were known to be frequent to entrapments.
Everybody in the RUclips elevator filmier community knows of THIS THING! This elevator is probably one of the most over-filmed and iconic elevators on the internet (along with the ones at the Marriott Marquis, both the ATL and NYC ones...)
I’m pretty sure it was an Otis with GAL (like the former one at sears) and I believe it was modded by Amtech as I have seen an Amtech Reliable elevator in the area.
Every time I see this I continue to be appalled at how bad it is lol
@EFCE Pennsylvania elevator records indicate that this was originally installed by General, but that's obviously not accurate. According to Aaron, elevator records can sometimes be inaccurate.
I knew that
@@ECFE Maybe you did, but I had no idea that Pennsylvania elevator records had it listed as General.
Old install names are almost always wrong
@@ECFE Yeah, I should have known.
I live there, just wondering why this is the most famous elevator?
Bro really has ads on this shit so he can earn $0.13 at the cost of all his viewers
you forgot to say " serie...google or who ever the provider is "
You should see my video of this thing. I did a PERFECT imitation.