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Otis, the famous elevator company, normally builds perfectly straight elevators.
They have built elevators in curved shafts for precisely two structures. What are those two structures?
Brother Buzz
(36,442 posts)Right now, I got spit.
CincyDem
(6,363 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)For the second, look at my avatar photo.
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(52,247 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Both are in the Continental US.
My avatar is a clue to the second.
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(52,247 posts)so maybe some masonic temple???
not familiar with these enough to guess if any have any curves....
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Unless you want a recap of what I've learned about the monkeys controlling the cabana.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)the Luxor in Vegas, Mr. Mason!
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)They call it an "inclinator"
I worked on the construction of the pyramid.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Washington Monument?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,861 posts)That's a simple straight up and down structure.
I knew the Arch, because I've been there. I probably haven't been to whatever the second one is, or I might have remembered it by now.
I'll hazard a guess at the Masonic Temple in Alexandria, VA.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)I seem to remember climbing stairs in the Washington Monument
Recursion
(56,582 posts)That's the other one
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,861 posts)I never get these things right.
And I simply made a lucky guess.
Many years ago, as in the 1970s, I lived in Alexandria, VA, and I think I made it to the Masonic Temple there all of once in ten years. It was a local landmark, but otherwise not well known or visited, at least not back then. My memory of my visit is rather sketchy, and I recall nothing at all about an elevator.
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)The Luxor and the St Louis arch..,,
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)True Dough
(17,305 posts)Unless they free fall onto the basement floor!