Indeed! I'm no elevator enthusiast, but it's always a pleasure to use this one when I visit. I've always loved it since I was little, and I'm glad it's maintained as both a working elevator and a museum piece. I especially like how that antique telephone is the emergency phone! I wonder how many people pick it up to see if it works...
I would have visited to see this elevator. However. As an elevator’s purpose is to allow people who cannot use stairs to independently go from floor to floor and this one would require an assistant, I understand the need for replacement. Too bad Otis could not have helped fund a was of saving the beauty while restoring it to modern function. Hope it went to a museum…
We we’re really hoped that it was still original of the vintage OTIS Elevator as of today but no, you’ve obviously ruined or trashed a whole thing for a brand new OTIS Gen2 Elevator. You should have preserved it for a display show but now it’s too late.
Yeah, i never got to comment on this after I heard the news it was replaced. You guys are an art museum (probably the best in the upper Midwest), and yet you committed an act of civic vandalism for putting a dull, lifeless modern elevator in its place. It's like the Metropolitan building all over again and for that I probably won't be visiting again.
