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Indeed! Yes, it was day 4. I did update it before I started the stream, but I didn't see that it said "your changes were not saved". I'm updating it now.

Not really sure myself. The studio software said that an encoding error had occurred and the stream just shut off. Today's is delayed because last night's storm knocked out utility power. We've had no power since 9:30PM last night, but utility crews are in the area working so I'm hoping to be back up soon.

You're welcome for the descriptions, in fact it was one of your videos where you asked a companion "what does the cab look like," or something like that, which made me realize that my videos are lacking narration elements. I also worked carefully on the captions and made sure to include things like "[Otis audible signal chime]" at the appropriate moments. The main tower only had one bank of elevators, and apparently omit floors 8 through 13, which is also mirrored in the service elevators. I was being facetious about selling anything on eBay. I kept every curio that wasn't bolted down.

@@EscalatorsDotCo awesome! I tend to do the same thing when I travel as well. Keeping whatever small items, such as papers, key cards, and whatever else I can get my hands on. I try to describe things in my descriptions as well, I’ll be at Not From a sighted persons perspective, obviously. If I’m with somebody at the time, I like to ask them what the cab looks like just so if another blind/visually impaired person is watching they can at least get a feel for what the elevator looks like,.

Exactly right, you deserve the description of the cab that I didn't think to narrate contemporaneously. These are old videos. but I'll make sure to narrate and caption over them to provide a good context for future viewers.

@@EscalatorsDotCo awesome, well, thanks in advance!

No problem! These elevators were in the now demolished main tower. As the video implies, yes, I did ride a service elevator and recorded it on this trip. That will be featured in an upcoming video. The East Tower was blocked off when I visited, but I was able to ride car TE7, a two stop hydro. It was much like the "secret" elevator to the Claridge bus station. It was readily accessible to the public, but in a spot where escalators presented a more convenient route for ambulatory guests that might not even notice it existed. It had service elevator signage posted from 1999 warning how many coins were the maximum to put in a cart before loading the cab. I found and watched the video you're referring to, and it does appear to be shot from an observation elevator in the East Tower, facing west, based on the unique terraced parking garage in the foreground and other buildings visible in background of the vista. Unfortunately, I didn't get deep into the East Tower on this visit, and likely never will.

@@EscalatorsDotCo interesting, can’t wait for the video of the Service Elevators! That small hydro sounds interesting as well. I’m sure there was an employee passageway somewhere that could’ve taken you to the East Tower, but even if you got there, I’m sure at that point the elevators were switched off given that the main entrance to it was blocked off from the general public And the place was about to close. I find it interesting how the East Tower is still standing, apparently it has a 99 year lease with the rainforest Café, which is on the boardwalk, taking up that section of either the first or second floor. The garage is still standing as well. I believe they were actually charging people to park there as a sort of public garage for a while after the casino closed, but is now abandoned. Even at that point I believe the elevators were switched off. What is the garage your referring to in the East Tower video? The regular Plaza garage or something else? Regardless, I’m happy there’s at least one video of those elevators. I’ll be it not a great one.

I was just validating the East Tower elevator video. The parking garage for the Trump Plaza is prominently in the foreground. The parking garage has a unique terraced shape. That is, the ground floor is the largest. Around the 7th floor, the structure gets concentrically smaller, then same around the 9th floor. I'm not knowledgeable about the details of the Rainforest Cafe's lease, but I suppose that would make some sense. The East Tower was originally a free-standing Holiday Inn before it was purchased and merged into the Trump Plaza in 1993, but all of the NJ DCA elevator records suggest that the building was modernized in 1983. Subsequent to the demolition of the main tower, the original building entrance was revealed, and can still be seen on the west side street level.

@@Dwall44the scenic elevators were in the same tower as this one.

I forgot to shut down the stream that evening, and the stream went longer than 24 consecutive hours, which I think messes up the replay.

Thank you for correcting me. I've updated the description in the video. As you might guess from my mistake, I'm not fluent with braille, but I know some basics and contractions that pertain to standard elevator placards. I watched several of your videos, and I saw in your channel description that you like to find these kind of oddities, so I'm glad you enjoyed this. One thing I've always wondered, is about how the front and rear "door open" and "door close" buttons are distinguished, as they both usually appear to read OP'EN' and CLOSE in braille.

@@EscalatorsDotCo thanks for checking out my channel! I appreciate that. On some older elevators, they will distinguish for example “f open” for the front door or if it’s even older “FDO.” Most newer elevators believe it or not don’t use anything really to distinguish one from the other which can get pretty confusing.

Glad you liked it. You'll probably like a lot of the throwback videos that will be coming soon. I explored several elevators off the beaten paths in the casino hotels. According to NJ DCA records, the device is still "active", however Atlantic City enforces elevator safety locally, so it may in fact be permanently out of service and/or "red tagged" at this time. Ironically I think it would be harder to explore the Claridge now that it's not owned by Caesars, as the new operators seem to be more hands-on with this building (for example, finishing the rooftop bar).

@@EscalatorsDotCo sad, I wonder how many of these decommissioned elevators there are in AC that we simply don’t know about. Sounds like you might’ve found some of them which sounds awesome. I recently have explored some service areas of the Showboat, and have found a number of Dover and Westinghouse freight elevators. funny thing is I’m heading to Atlantic City today and hopefully will be getting a video of one of them. Only thing is one of them uses manual doors which I’ve never operated a freight like that before so maybe I won’t go for that one. Most of Showboat above the first floor is dead though, so I’m not really worried about that part.

You'll definitely enjoy a lot of the upcoming throwback content!

@@EscalatorsDotCo awesome! Just got home from Atlantic City today actually. Saw a lot of cool stuff and even found some new service elevators in certain buildings that I did not know about previously. I understand this is a longshot, but do you have any pictures or videos of any of the elevator systems from the now demolished sands casino? From what I’ve heard they had Westinghouse equipment, but can’t find much else other than that about them. I figured if anybody had any info or videos or whatever about them, it would be you.

​@@Dwall44 That's awesome! I hope you publish some videos of them! Unfortunately, I never got the chance to visit the Sands.

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You may have been thinking of Week 11 Day 3 stream. Usually, I'll shut the stream off when the work crews leave, which is normally between 4PM and 5PM, but on Week 11 Day 3 I forgot to shut the stream off at the usual time and it went until about 7PM.

After I posted the video, I realized that even more interestingly, both car operating panels are badged as "Elevator 1".

Saw part of your video of the place. Really well done. Did you record any elevators when you were there? Also was the Laguna tower still original?

@@Dwall44 laguna is the one tower I didn’t go into lol

@@fgpalmlol wow. They were original when I was there last September. They were series ones from the 90s. I’m going to tell myself that they’re still original even though I’m sure they’re gone by now.

Bayview tower just got done so these are prob next

@@fgpalm no way they got Bayview Tower! Weren’t they the Otis‘s from the early 2000s? Why modernized them?

@@Dwall44 they were installed in 2002! Makes me feel old. All the elevators at Harrah’s get beat up by all the party animal from the club.

@@fgpalm oh OK. Insane that elevators from the early 2000s are starting to get Modernized. I would say it wasn’t needed but I didn’t ride them during my recent trip to Harrah’s and like you said I’m sure they were beat to heck so probably needed it. And it’s too bad because they had a really weird variant of the Otis voice.

@@Dwall44 they did! They honestly were too bad but they all are a bit bouncy and shaky

It's two different phrases. They're not in any overall order.

Otis Gen2 elevators are equipped with a load sensor that allows the elevator controller to determine what is "too many". If a person weighing 150 lbs (70 kg) gets on and presses one or two buttons, that would likely be considered OK. But if the same person pressed four buttons, that would likely be considered "too many". Likewise if three persons each weighing 150 lbs (450 lbs or 210kb) get on, and press 4 buttons, that would likely be OK, but if there are 7 buttons pressed, that would likely be "too many".

That's correct! The Coastal Tower and the Atrium Suites towers connect at every floor, but the Atrium Suites tower elevators are slightly faster.

On this particular trip, I was only at Harrah's. But over the weekend I went through old hard drives and memory cards and found several "lost" videos. Several videos that I had assumed were damaged beyond repair were able to be recovered by re-encoding them in ffmpeg. Unfortunately, at least 8-10 videos from the Showboat, and a few others, are apparently still lost forever (although I've still got the corrupt data files on the hopes that I'll figure it out eventually). Once I run out of weekly videos from 2024, I'll begin posting "throwback Thursday" and "flashback Friday" content. You will not want to miss some of these - you've been asking for them!

awesome, can’t wait! As someone who is currently in school for IT, I can say that not all of those video reEncoder /recovery programs work the same. Maybe if you can find another free one or something you may be able to recover more or all of the remaining corrupt video files. Still looking forward to what you’ve found though.

Thanks for the suggestion! I can't promise any specific future trip there at this moment, but the Ocean is a nice hotel, and I would love to go back some time soon.

@@EscalatorsDotCo also idk if you remember but the waterfront tower, the high rise bank…started with 4 elevators and then they added a 5th a few months later. Strange they wouldn’t start with 5 lol

@@fgpalm wait what? They just added one more elevator? Is it on the same controller? I have questions lol.

@@Dwall44 the waterfront tower…when it opened around 2008 the highrise bank had 4 elevators. About 6month to a year in they started building a 5th elevator to the bank. Clearly, there was space in the shaft that they were not using for it.

Are these the Westinghouse ones or the Fujitec ones?