The Anheuser-Busch brewery in St Louis had an old wooden escalator that the tour
guide said was the first escalator in the U.S.
It was a single unit that was switched back and forth between up and down. We
went up it at the start of the tour, and came back down it at the end, just
before the tour ended in the hospitality room.
A couple of other thing I remember from the tour was the beautiful cast iron
Brew house and the wrought iron chandelier that was made in the shape of a hops
vine with lights where all the flowers would be.
https://stlouispatina.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/brewery2b097.jpg
And the Clydesdale's barn was built like a railroad roundhouse.
I don't have any photos of my own from that trip. They were part of the
collection that was destroyed by Hurricane Fran.
On 3/17/2019 08:56:16, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Yes, like Ann I have seen and used escalators in The City that are
reversible. They change them to accommodate morning and evening rush
hours. Like that machine they had on the old Tappan Zee Bridge that moved
the "Jersey" lane dividers over two lanes twice a day. Technically, the
devise is called a barrier transfer machine, but everyone called it the
Zipper, because that is how it worked and looked:
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/tappan-zee-bridge/2015/07/16/tappan-zee-bridge-zipper-days-numbered/30142559/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_transfer_machine
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 7:37 AM ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
actually, at least at the one at Union Square - the escalators are
reversable... and there are locations where there are two side by side
escaltors going in the same direction .. and a third in the opposite.
but I was JOKING!
sheesh
ann
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