(Elevator operators are all about service. By making that joke ... only place in Chicago you can have this moment.” When the manual elevators are retired, management plans to display one ...

Pardo operates one of the last manual elevators in Los Angeles. The young people are not easily impressed — but something about Pardo awes them. Each morning, the 69-year-old arrives at the Art ...

Congress began replacing some 150 manual elevators in the U.S. Capitol and ... leaving it out of service for up to three months in a given year. (When it breaks down, residents use the building's ...

NEW BEDFORD — The jobs of Suzanne White and other City Hall custodians expand, in numerous ways, when they operate the distinctive manual elevator ... Adding a service elevator near the building ...

Along with disappearing manual elevators, the job of elevator operator is nearly gone. A 2017 report in Quartz called it one of the few jobs that has disappeared almost entirely because of automation.

Work is underway to convert the historic elevators to automatic operation and improve their service time to the tenants who work in the building. When Smith Tower was completed in 1914 ...

Homeowners at the 95-year-old Commodore Condominiums voted Wednesday to replace the 11-story building’s vintage manual passenger elevator – thought to be the only one of its kind left in ...

One of Chicago's last manual elevator operators understands the novelty of his 'office' in the famous Fine Arts Building. "It has its ups and downs," Brian joked about the job. He said he wound up ...