Wooden Escalators at Macy’s

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6 жыл бұрын

The Historic Vintage Wooden Otis L-type Escalators at Macy’s Herald Square in NYC! It’s been 4 years and over 1 million views since my last video, so I decided to make a new improved version!! Enjoy!

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@billyhightower5113 2 жыл бұрын

Got to ride these yesterday. They are smooth. No vibration, no jerking. Just smooth.

@davidng2336 3 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing these are still here.

@SmittenKitten96 2 жыл бұрын

That’s really cool! There’s an old macys near where I live in Pasadena CA with really really awesome mid century furniture pieces, art, and chandeliers.

@mariavarecka2618 3 жыл бұрын

That escalator brings back a lot of memories of me and my Mother - lots of GOOD ones.

@makachia4213 3 жыл бұрын

@Ph mobile 1

@Dana_808 2 жыл бұрын

All the heel marks from all the years. Love it.

@WitchidWitchid 3 жыл бұрын

As a child, I lived in department stores. Spent a lot of times in this Macy's and I remember these escalators very well.

@strawberrylemonadelioness Жыл бұрын

Nice find! Wood escalators look so cool!

@user-ef8km9pv8g 3 ай бұрын

So classy 😍❤

@jamesmonroe7903 4 жыл бұрын

Let’s hope that this iconic department store-and it’s Equally iconic escalators-survive the retail apocalypse caused by the COVID-19 pandemic! These wooden Otises-some dating back to when Macy’s Herald Square first opened(in 1902!)-are,like the beautiful building that houses them and the legendary store itself-are IRREPLACABLE New York City landmarks! Let’s hope 4 the BEST here!!!

@GM-tv5fj 3 жыл бұрын

A life memory and a unique shopping excursion that Amazon can not offer. I couldn't agree more Mr. Monroe!

@jamesmonroe7903 3 жыл бұрын

G M I 2nd that G M! Macy’s Herald Square-along with the flagship NYC stores of Bloomingdale’s ,Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman-are among the last surviving vestages of The Golden Age of Retail-when NYC had MANY great full-city block department stores and big cities across the 🇺🇸 USA ALL had their own big stores-including my lifelong hometown-STL MO-which had THREE big Downtown stores thru the 1960’s and crossstate rival Kansas City had FOUR-including its own Macy’s!!!

@nirosharajanayake 2 жыл бұрын

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@tumtam047915 2 жыл бұрын

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@tumtam047915 2 жыл бұрын

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@setsuro.splice 5 жыл бұрын

is it just me or is the sound generated by this wooden escalator, calming...?

@asnowballinhell 3 жыл бұрын

It's a very nice sound.

@miner_splash995 3 жыл бұрын

asmr 101

@alpaljl 3 жыл бұрын

Not just you. I thought the same thing.

@MeJustAimy 2 жыл бұрын

natural sounds have that effect on ppl

@thebloodandflower Жыл бұрын

Not at all. It feels so good!!!

@mrmjb1960 3 жыл бұрын

These were the same kind of stairs that cause the Underground fire in England that was the deadliest fire!

@TheAtlantaRailfan 3 жыл бұрын

It was because of a phenomenon known as the trench effect when the heat gets channeled upward and then the wooden steps above reach combustion temp all at the same time. it's like an explosin

@pinkfreud62 2 жыл бұрын

We had 3 wooden escalators in downtown Akron in O'Neil's back in the day.

@jasminejohnston6393 3 жыл бұрын

Wooden escalators are hard to find these days because of the King’s Cross Fire. King’s Cross is a tube station in London and a fire started under one of the escalators. When a train pulled in, that little flame became an inferno. Ever since, train stations have been required to have metal escalators

@strodey123 3 жыл бұрын

You say ever since, but it took them 27 years to replace the last wooden escalator on the tube! Amazing it never happened again.

@user-cb1by6lk4b 2 жыл бұрын

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@ummuhafidz3952 2 жыл бұрын

@@strodey123 jhhu

@RaymondHng Жыл бұрын

The fire had been started by a lit match being dropped onto the escalator. There were 31 fatalities.

@Davett53 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I recall in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1950s, when I was growing up, our downtown department stores had the wooden ones. They kept them around through the 1970s,...a few floors, were still serviced by them, until the early 2000s.

@neilbrown3359 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder how often they spray them for termites?

@Jhihmoac 3 жыл бұрын

...Back when "Going to Macy's" actually MEANT something! Oh, how I used to always beg my parents to ride up and down the wooden escalators @ Macy's when I was a kid...However, because we often had my younger brother and sister along in their respective strollers, it was usually the elevator we'd take! Occasionally, my father and I would break off just so I could ride on the old woodies, though... You always knew when you were close to where the Macy's escalators were with their characteristic _"wood into wood rumble"_ ...

@tumtam047915 2 жыл бұрын

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@dwhallon21 Жыл бұрын

Those are cool...

@seronymus 5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@jo287 5 жыл бұрын

Now that's awesome

@leeannjacket7740 9 ай бұрын

Hard to believe this is a high end department store with rickety old scratched up wooden escalators and broken tiles. Someone on TripAdvisor said the same; that the escalators were dusty and dirty like a Subway station. Lol! 😆

@matatana2k 2 жыл бұрын

I ask everyone to come to Macys Herald Square, all escalators are getting cleaned for our lovely customers!!!

@mikefagan6840 Жыл бұрын

Well maintained! I rode these with my kids going to see Santa in the 90s. 👍🤎

@leeannjacket7740 9 ай бұрын

BTW! Not a fire risk. No smoking allowed. The wood is a facade. There's metal underneath. See below; The world's largest department store installed its oak and ash wood escalators between 1920 and 1930. Over the years, they've been renovated for safety standards and mechanical updates. But while some have been fully modernized, the treads on most remain wooden.

@schnuurtchke 4 жыл бұрын

Escalators make a great ASMR sound

@GabetheSlacker 2 ай бұрын

I’m not gonna lie, wooden escalators are pretty rare to find, because the only escalator I have ever ridden are metal.

@GianlucaBerger 3 жыл бұрын

Macy’s has the greatest elevators and escalators

@aaronconnect8490 3 жыл бұрын

I never seen the escalator like that before..

@mikerca 2 жыл бұрын

Love riding these in the New York store. But I think the most used ones going up and down between the 1st and 3rd floors have been replaced by metal if I remember correctly.

@youtuber3328 Жыл бұрын

to be COMPLETELY honest i did do and will really really LOVE macys

@Kotmotok 2 ай бұрын

like the escalators of the Soviet metro in Moscow. This is how they looked before the 1980 Olympics Game.

@mayureshtandel0206 2 жыл бұрын

How many total numbers of such escalators are there? Hats off to that building owner who maintains such escalators!!!

@matatana2k 2 жыл бұрын

We have 72 escalators on total

@himesetsu1001 Жыл бұрын

@@matatana2k holy moly that many?

@leeannjacket7740 9 ай бұрын

43 escalators. 20 wooden.

@eriks8382 3 жыл бұрын

Such a fire hazard

@alexanderip1003 3 жыл бұрын

a reminder of the King's cross Fire 33 years ago Seconds From Disaster kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p82qdpeovtTDY5s.html

@4ever242 2 жыл бұрын

Nonsense. No smoking area. No trains. No tunnel effect, no fire 😉

@alexiedaledelrosario Жыл бұрын

When old otis escalator

@supeRomanPRO 2 жыл бұрын

Вот многие говорят, что самые первые эскалаторы появились в Московском метрополитене, а вот и не правда! Вот самый первый в мире эскалатор, в Нью-Йорке находится.

@4ever242 2 жыл бұрын

Еще в лондонском метро эскалатор был намного раньше, чем в Москве, еще в 1911 году.

@ivanfotoman 2 жыл бұрын

It seems just the finishing of the escalator used wood. I thought it is completely or at least most of the parts are by wood like the “wooden roller coaster”. Anyway still a good thing to know.

@junhuiho1131 2 жыл бұрын

OL？去1去1

@OhPhuckYou 2 жыл бұрын

I imagine they just kept the wooden facade for historical sake. They'd have to update the escalators to be brought up to safety code. Seems these are a hybrid of old and new technology working. Notice the emergency shut off buttons, and I imagine they originally didn't have the conveyor belt arm railing ether.

@RaymondHng Жыл бұрын

@@OhPhuckYou The steps are also wooden.

@Clock-tr6eg 15 күн бұрын

Unfortunately, Schindler‘s got their hands on replacing all wooden escalators by 2027

@Ih8kone 3 жыл бұрын

The London Underground used to have a TON of these according to BENO.

@europa2000man 3 жыл бұрын

That's true. Up until 1987, many of the Underground stations had wooden escalators. In 1987 however, in the King's Cross St Pancreas Underground station, someone dropped a cigarette bud on one of the escalator steps. It set fire to the escalator due to being wooden and the whole station was gutted, killing 31 people and injuring 100. This signalled the demise of wooden escalators on the Underground. A ban on smoking in the Underground stations and on the trains was put in place. All the wooden escalators that were around eventually got replaced by the conventional steel escalators. The last station to replace their wooden escalators was Greenford station in 2013. That was the end of wooden escalators on the Underground.

@Lighthouseadventures1 3 жыл бұрын

Kings cross brought me here

@jojoboy16 3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@juanestebanzapatamontoya5936 3 жыл бұрын

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@tumtam047915 2 жыл бұрын

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@josephlenehan4461 2 жыл бұрын

Jos and Toady 😀

@northhiburan8803 Жыл бұрын

This escalator very vintage and rare, from 1920 yet?

@norisuki_escalator 3 жыл бұрын

I am very interested in wooden escalator because there is no wooden escalator in Japan.

@user-nm1ov2mr3y 2 жыл бұрын

how many floors are there in Macy's department store?

@RaymondHng Жыл бұрын

At Macy's Herald Square, there's 11 floors (or 10.5, depending how you count).

@user-nm1ov2mr3y Жыл бұрын

@@RaymondHng I see. Now probably this escalator has already been replaced. I myself live in Moscow and filmed various escalators of the Moscow metro the oldest wooden escalators in the Moscow metro were at the Baumanskaya metro station (Line 3) these escalators worked from 1944-2015 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/et6HmK913bjSdac.html

@iznankaZD 11 ай бұрын

Забавно ступени эскалатора въезжают друг в друга😀

@Blabette 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder Woman 1984 being historically inaccurate brought me here.

@carfan8822 Жыл бұрын

Why need Woden escalators when you can have metal made ones

@TransportVK Жыл бұрын

Интересно, в каком году его построили?

@RaymondHng Жыл бұрын

Эскалаторы были построены между 1920 и 1930 годами компанией Otis Elevator.

@googleSux 2 жыл бұрын

Thats 'kinda' wooden. I remember fully wooden escalators in some London Underground stations.

@RaymondHng Жыл бұрын

The King's Cross fire was a 1987 fire in a London Underground station with 31 fatalities, after a fire under a wooden escalator suddenly spread into the underground ticket hall in a flashover. The fire had been started by a lit match being dropped onto the escalator. There were 31 fatalities.

@AnitaBetterScreenname 2 жыл бұрын

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@dusichh 3 жыл бұрын

это то самое видео с «сири с любовью»?

@scotts595 2 жыл бұрын

Time for a mod🤔

4 жыл бұрын

Worth of 50,000,000

@robeycleaverland2155 3 жыл бұрын

Send what?!! 😨

@sandiegotrafficlightstrain354 4 жыл бұрын

How many escalators are there?

@MrBusEnthusiast 3 жыл бұрын

12?

@robeycleaverland2155 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe 49 heck up for sense.

@leeannjacket7740 9 ай бұрын

43 escalators. 20 wooden.

@sunnyvoid7206 3 жыл бұрын

I just found out when my current employer bought the building they are in the pulled out very fancy wood escalators.

@rock-afire-fan 3 жыл бұрын

lol why

@sunnyvoid7206 3 жыл бұрын

@@rock-afire-fan cuz they cost more to maintain than the ones they put in. So they got rid of the fancy wood for stand glass. It pisses me off cuz they are a Casino and trying to be fancy

@rock-afire-fan 3 жыл бұрын

@@sunnyvoid7206 I like the old wooden ones that are so narrow fat people have to go up sideways

@sunnyvoid7206 3 жыл бұрын

@@rock-afire-fan I haven't seen many wood ones but they are normally fancier that what we have if they had perks like making people exercise if they are that big it's not a bad thing.

@ilikepiracy1264 3 жыл бұрын

@@sunnyvoid7206 They are also a very serious fire hazard, lookup Kings cross fire

@pony053 3 жыл бұрын

Otis?

@smenor1234 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Otis L-type 1910-20

@nicolelol 4 жыл бұрын

more awesome in person

@HisokaYugami9210 3 жыл бұрын

Anybody wondering how many floors this building has?

@RaymondHng Жыл бұрын

At Macy's Herald Square, there's 11 floors (or 10.5, depending how you count).

@user-xs2ko5oq5p 2 жыл бұрын

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@jonathancreveling5658 2 жыл бұрын

These escalators are from 1902

@RaymondHng Жыл бұрын

These were built between 1920 and 1930.

@ivanildacardosoramos5257 3 жыл бұрын

MJZ

@alexli9473 3 жыл бұрын

Huyuu

@richardnone5644 4 жыл бұрын

they were all wood and people would get stuck in them very often

4 жыл бұрын

Except me

@ChristopherHuth73 3 жыл бұрын

They still are

@GM-tv5fj 3 жыл бұрын

Not me! I held mom or dad's hand and paid attention when they said "it's not a toy"!

@hebagomaa2151 2 жыл бұрын

1141

@elevatorsfromsoutheastqld 2 жыл бұрын

I prefer the modern escalators.

@wendimarroquin2561 2 жыл бұрын

Really ?

@hebagomaa2151 2 жыл бұрын

2011r101

@ivanildacardosoramos5257 3 жыл бұрын

@David-vh4eg 4 жыл бұрын

C. C.

@robeycleaverland2155 3 жыл бұрын

What c.c??

@DieselDucy124 4 жыл бұрын

@leneoeam1 3 жыл бұрын

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@ivanildacardosoramos5257 3 жыл бұрын

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@tristanchai4415 2 жыл бұрын

@user-sz9zp7zc2y 2 жыл бұрын

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@abbygood6085 Жыл бұрын

What

@freerandomcontent13 Жыл бұрын

Coolest part: they're narrow

@eymenceliktas5659 Жыл бұрын

@gjg8094 4 жыл бұрын

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@kaylabasaldua5836 4 жыл бұрын

@robeycleaverland2155 3 жыл бұрын

We for what?

@user-ov2hi2fx4c 3 жыл бұрын

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@sninfobd7407 4 жыл бұрын

SN international Bangladesh Elevator Escalator working

@lexabybl2986 4 жыл бұрын

Жжж

@robeycleaverland2155 3 жыл бұрын

What??

@Agent_Erased 4 жыл бұрын

That’s copper

@greego5952 3 жыл бұрын

No, its. Wood... Copper is a DUMB material for esclators.

@vanessalim2137 3 жыл бұрын

Damian sorry for the

@vanessalim2137 3 жыл бұрын

Damian sorry for the late reply and thank you

@robeycleaverland2155 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for what??

@ivanildacardosoramos5257 3 жыл бұрын

Hxur

@damariryles9990 4 жыл бұрын

@robeycleaverland2155 3 жыл бұрын

What 'E'?