AMAZING 1933 OTIS Elevators at Takashimaya Nihombashi, Tokyo (HD Retake)
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2016
- *NOW IN HD RETAKE!
Finally, I got the opportunity to revisit this historic department store and did a retake of these beautiful gated OTIS elevators!
These six elevators were installed in 1933 and have been operated by attendants since the building was opened. According to elevator filmer e233100's latest videos of these elevators (links are near the bottom), they have recently been modernized again into Gen2 in 2013-14. The last modernization according to him was around 1990s when the fixtures were vintage square Lexan push buttons (old footage included in this video as a flashback).
Now here's an interesting fact that someone told me. You see a vintage crank in the COP? This is not used to manually controlling the elevator. Instead, it is used to start and "lock" the elevator. After the doors closed, she pushes the floor button, turns on the crank and the elevator moves. When it stops, she turns the crank back to it's original position (neutral). In this position, the elevator won't move unless to turn the crank. No matter how many floor buttons you pressed, it won't move. Notice that after the doors closed and some of the floor buttons have been pressed, the elevator didn't move.
The solution of this crank, I believe, is to prevent people from operating the elevator by their own except the attendant, giving the fact of how historic these elevators are and attendants have long been operating these elevators. The crank is like a lock switch to me, or whatever you want to call it. In this case, this is an EXTREMELY RARE configuration in an OTIS Gen2! I have never seen a modernized historic elevator like this anywhere else before!
I surely hope that these elevators will not be replaced into boring modern ones and would still be running for more than 100 years. Hope you enjoy this video!
** Links **
- December 2012 footage: • Historic 1933 OTIS Tra... (warning, very poor quality!)
- e233100's video (before the mods): • OTISエレベーター 日本橋高島屋 改修前P...
- e233100's videos (after the mods): • OTISエレベーター 日本橋高島屋 Part1 (Part 1) and • OTISエレベーター 日本橋高島屋 Part... (Part 2)
Capacity: 23 Persons/1600kg
Floors served: B2, B1, 1-8, R (11 floors)
Year installed / modernized: 1933 / 1990s and 2013-14
History: Partially modernized
Elevator rating: 5 / 5 (highly recommended if you're in Tokyo)
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Camera: Samsung Galaxy J5 and Nikon Coolpix S800C
Taken date: February 3, 2016
(C) 2016 IDLift3000 Productions 
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Very modern for 1933. Those digital indicators are really innovative for 1933
The elevators have received upgrades over time.
NAICCEEEEE!!!!!!!
Awesome
This is what I call QUALITY AND CHARACTER!
This is a very good mod IMO, but it's too bad the old Lexan square push buttons got replaced with the new fake ones :(
IDLift3000 awwww but are the new ones touch-sensitive?
Nope, soft pressure push buttons.
IDLift3000 oh
Nice Vintage Elevator
Nice gate
I notice that a lot of older Otis elevators used the greek key design in the upper part of the car. Nice to see these elevators being kept in manual operation with gates.
They're not manually operated. The crank doesn't move the lift, it's only used to start the motor once a floor is selected. As long as the crank is in the center of the COP with the handle up, the lift won't move. You have to turn the crank after pressing a button to get it to move.
I guess I should have more accurately said,
"attendant operated", although there is still a manual element to their operation other than simply entering the car and pushing a button. The downtown dept. store elevators we used to have in the city where I grew up had one handle to open/close the hoistway door and car gate and the car switch handle for starting/stopping/direction. The only buttons were for clearing the floor indicator lights on the panel. I believe they were also Otis elevators. Those cars had quick operating pneumatic doors that sometimes made a slight hissing or whistle sound when they developed a small air leak. By the time the last store closed up in 1983, it happened to be the last one to have kept its attendant operated lifts. I always enjoyed shopping there just because they kept the attendant lifts when the other stores automated theirs back in the 1960s. Though a few years before the closure the car gates had been replaced with solid doors and the pneumatic door systems replaced with electric.
5:49 Look closely at the top right corner of the gate. If you look, you'll see the clutch catching onto the gate!
Omong2 busted yang seperti ini, September lalu juga aku alami di lift KONE N MonoSpace KDS 330 yang di Galaxy Mall 3. Entah kenapa padahal ada perekam lift lain (NP1C mungkin?) yg tidak apa2, kemungkinan karena petugasnya ga ingin difoto kali ya jadi beliau bikin alasan tsb
The lady was nice about it saying that you can't take photos or videos. At least it was first a heads up
I agree. I'd be the same way if she told me the same thing.
Why do they not want videos/photographs taken?
Did you tell her that you were just photographing the elevators only? If you explained to her all what you exactly do, she might understand.
I did tell her that I was just photographing the elevators after I shut the camera off, and she understand it.
So she could let you photograph the elevators, but not at the stores. Right?
I was literally searching for a 1933 Otis on Google. LOL XD
東京にはまだエレベーターガールは居たのか
申し訳ありませんが、よくわかりません。 私がここに行ったとき、彼らはそこにいました。 今はよくわかりませんが、まだそこにあると思います。
IDLift3000, she's not using her arm to move the doors. You see the crank? When the doors close, that's because she pulled the handle down to close it. She just puts her arm out when she pulls it down. When the doors open, she pushes the handle back into it's 'raised' position. As long as the handle stays up, the door will stay open. And as long as she keeps the handle down, the door will remain closed until she raises the handle again.
Okay, thanks for the correction.
@@idl3k_elev You're welcome! They also have two 1914 manually operated elevators at Mitsukoshi. This store is also in Nihonbashi. Both of which also have attendants. If you ever go back to Japan, visit Mitsukoshi.
@@idl3k_elev Oh, I forgot to tell you, you actually can ride these things to the roof! They have a roof garden up there.
Hahaha,he says that the elevator operator says DONT FILM AT The elevator
He says this:(EPIC FAIL) (this was on the end)
Seems like someone has filmed this elevator slightly before the 1990s mod and when the doors are still manual: ruclips.net/video/ULnW4obBWfY/видео.html .
Idk if he meant this building or the other building, but I suspect the elevators looked like that before the mods. Several old shopping centers in Japan have similar elevators too, most of which have been modded by OTIS or replaced....
That's a different store, Mitsukoshi.
Are they replaced now?
Probably not. I doubt they will replace them considering how historic they are.
@@idl3k_elev I want to see them, but our family don't like to travel to Japan, we travel to Korea every year, but in Korea there are not historic elevators like this. But when I came to Seoul this October, I found OTIS 1970 Original elevator (OTIS, not sigma)
American style OTIS?
@@idl3k_elev Yes. You can watch video and I live in Vladivostok, Russia, there are many interrsting elevators in our city. We have 8 elevators in Grand Vladivostok Aquarium, there are SIGMA, and they have MiniTouch
@@evcaselev Maybe when you can live on your own, you can plan your own trip to Japan.
Old door
Excuse me, can you please help me to determine whether this video used your audio or not?
ruclips.net/video/kiqm0hWJn0Q/видео.html
Skip to the moment where he animates the two guys get busted (1:21). I suspect like he took the "Oh, sorry." voice from this video (the part where you was warned by the attendant) cuz it sounded almost the same.
I will check that later. He's sometimes can be a little bit annoying to me.
"This video isn't available anymore"
Pintu sulap
Idk what is she saying since I don't understand Japanese lol
Neither I
@@idl3k_elev I understand a little bit of it. When she closes the doors, she says "Omataseitashimashita." (Sorry to keep you waiting.) When she steps out, she'll announce either "Ue e mairimasu, ue de gozaimasu" (used if the elevator is going up) or "Shita e mairimasu, shita de gozaimasu" (used if the elevator is going down). When saying the floor the elevator is making a stop on, she'll say "Chika ni-kai" (Basement Two Floor ), Chika i-kai" (Basement One Floor), "i-kai"" (First Floor), "Ni-kai" (Second Floor), "San-kai" (Third Floor), "Yon-kai" (Fourth Floor), "Go-kai" (Fifth Floor) "Ro-kai" (Sixth Floor) "Nana-kai" (Seventh Floor), "Hachi-kai" (Eighth Floor), and "Okujo" (Rooftop), . As for what she's saying as to what that floor contains, I can only understand what it is when the elevator is taking someone to the 6th floor. When the elevator has to stop to pick someone up, she'll say the floor number, and then "Sho-sho omachi kudasai mase" (Please wait a moment). When letting someone on, she says "Irasshaimase" (Welcome or Come on in) As for everything else spoken, I cannot understand it.