Elevator & Escalator Club - "I LOVE THE ELEVATOR AND THE BUTTONS AND THE SOUNDS TOO"

Very Clever Nickname said:
What's next, doorbell enthusiasts?
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Steve Mayers said:
If it exists chances are someone is obsessed with it.
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Someone, somewhere has created a database of the exact frequencies various doorbells ring at. You know it's true; the only question is if there's a website, or if they've scribbled their insanity on the walls of their home.
 
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CIA Nigger said:
Something I've noticed about these people is that some of them are obsessed with public transit busses and school busses. While I could understand being interested if say, you bought a used one from eBay or Craigslist to convert into an RV and did upkeep/repair on it, these people oftentimes aren't even old enough to drive mom's Chevy Lumina, nor would they do anything with said bus.

That channel you found is a goldmine though, here's some infighting:
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Speaking of cringe, here's a video of from the target of the above video filming featuring both people who likely don't want to be on camera and a random older guy staring at them speechless (His dad maybe?)

At one point he did leave YouTube once after allegedly closing someone's account:
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I got a good giggle out of the video with a herd of them in it. They all have the exact same voice, it's uncanny, and they seem so frustrated.

The amount of drama vs the amount of people participating in the community is concerning, but hilarious so I won't complain.
 
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CIA Nigger said:
Speaking of cringe, here's a video of from the target of the above video filming featuring both people who likely don't want to be on camera and a random older guy staring at them speechless (His dad maybe?)
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Reminds me of a similar bank of elevators at a former department store downtown that's now an apartment complex, if these spergs ever found out about the place, it would be the same mess pretty quickly.

Witlich said:
Eh, it's just another machine to me.

- I get a bit of motion sickness if I ride on them for too long
- Old elevators scare me. There's the whole "it's gonna break, fall, and kill me" feeling
- Glass elevators aren't as scary, but ... it does play into the fear of heights
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The feeling is mutual. Older elevators bug me a bit due to their age and uncertainty.

Very Clever Nickname said:
What's next, doorbell enthusiasts?
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I bet there's a few obsessive enough to find homes with the "Medallion Home" logo near or on the door!
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Trilby said:
Reminds me of a similar bank of elevators at a former department store downtown that's now an apartment complex, if these spergs ever found out about the place, it would be the same mess pretty quickly.


The feeling is mutual. Older elevators bug me a bit due to their age and uncertainty.


I bet there's a few obsessive enough to find homes with the "Medallion Home" logo near or on the door!
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I can see a crossover in interest, don't both run on coils? electromagnetic coils. like tattoo machines. there's a massive tattoo machine one of the older artists has, that was built from a giant doorbell's guts. it's in San Francisco.
 
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Innocuous Banter said:
I'm not from the elevator community. I just like old things, aesthetic-type things

See I was gonna make a remark about autism or something but that was the first four pages of the thread



I doubt it. I was thinking abandoned office buildings within cities. It's funny to think about how some office building interiors aged so poorly.
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I've looked at apartments with those type of elevators and that oh-so endearing 'this building is clearly decades old and hardly updated to be livable in the 2000s' upkeep. But hey, if those elevators in offices are your bag then keep the dream alive.
 
Dr.Research said:
I've looked at apartments with those type of elevators and that oh-so endearing 'this building is clearly decades old and hardly updated to be livable in the 2000s' upkeep. But hey, if those elevators in offices are your bag then keep the dream alive.
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Some like to keep nostalgic aesthetics alive. I know plenty of buildings downtown that might have an elevator that's been there for nearly century, but it's not something I feel compelled to be fixated on personally. Tearing down these buildings due to decay or neglect does bring a bit of sadness to me, you've always seen them there and now they're gone. Their property then becomes any number of things, either another business, perhaps apartments or even just vacant. Any trace of their existence is wiped away unless documented or photographed. It's those of us who care for the past who try to keep these memories alive.
 
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Some like to keep nostalgic aesthetics alive. I know plenty of buildings downtown that might have an elevator that's been there for nearly century, but it's not something I feel compelled to be fixated on personally. Tearing down these buildings due to decay or neglect does bring a bit of sadness to me, you've always seen them there and now they're gone. Their property then becomes any number of things, either another business, perhaps apartments or even just vacant. Any trace of their existence is wiped away unless documented or photographed. It's those of us who care for the past who try to keep these memories alive.
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I totally agree with you about old buildings vanishing.

But crampt old elevators always suck.
 
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Sperglord Dante said:
You'd think that with autists being susceptible to sensory overload and all that they'd experience vertigo or motion sickness in elevators.
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:autism: Gonna sperg about the spergs: sensory processing also includes understimulation. So, some autists are sensory sensitive to some input (noises or whatever) while being sensory-seeking in other ways. Can't deal with bright lights, want a lot of pressure on their bodies. Can't deal with sour foods, jump up and down because the hitting the ground feels good. Basically, their systems get the information distorted: sometimes too much, sometimes too little. :autism:
 
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Dr.Research said:
I totally agree with you about old buildings vanishing.
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Especially ones that still had skeleton keyholes! That's something we'll never see again, yet the iconography still exists.

But crampt old elevators always suck.
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Crampt ones made me very clustrophobic, especially if they jammed (which never happened to me thankfully). I'm glad for the newer ones being as wide as they are.
 
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