Because the information on this famous elevator is hard to find, I thought I'd gather it all here. From Creighton's campus map & interactive guide. "Creighton Hall was the first campus building constructed in 1877. Many departments reside here including the Presidents Office. Today 36 Jesuits live in the top floor of Creighton Hall, which students can only see if personally invited by a Jesuit. To get to the Jesuit residences in Creighton Hall you must have a key, which only the Jesuits have, to open and operate the Golden Elevator, the elevator which goes to the top floor." On page 7 of this article: "Recently a student giving a tour to prospective families made the statement, “The ‘golden elevator’ in Creighton Hall is the oldest working elevator west of the Missouri River.” While the elevator to the Jesuit Quarters in Creighton Hall is probably one of the oldest working passenger elevators west of the Missouri River, this claim is probably not factual. One consideration is the many industrial/mining elevators still in service that may be older. Even though the student’s claim cannot be proven, there are many stories that have circulated over the years regarding the Jesuit Elevator. One of those was reported in The Creightonian on November 4, 1983. It seems that three administrators were trapped between the third and fourth floor for 35 minutes on October 19, 1983. They were rescued by an O’Keefe repairman after a passerby heard their cries for help and called campus-security. The elevator did not have a key to open it, as most do, and had to be hand-cranked to the closest floor so the men could crawl out. To make matters worse, the alarm on the elevator was not working. According to one of our building engineers who has been employed at CU for many years, being trapped in the Jesuit Elevator was not uncommon. There have even been rumors of the elevator being haunted, which of course has never been confirmed. " In case you found this post first, here's my attempt to ride it: So far, it's been a great year for elevator filming, but not so great for elevators! Pretty much all of what I speculated on in my 2014 review has happened. The Nebraska History Museum's elevators were modded, Biochemistry Hall was torn down, and Love Library North's elevators got modernized. What I didn't expect to happen was Manter Hall's elevators getting modernized. I've reached both 100,000 and 200,000 views this year, and according to socialblade.com, I should reach 300,000 by July of next year. It also seems like my channel is hitting peaks and valleys of popularity too, but still keeps growing exponentially, and i like that. I got to film elevators on UNO's, Creighton's, Concordia's, and Midland University's campuses! I even ventured out west of Lincoln to film some elevators (just to York, NE, not to North Platte, Kearney, Norfolk, or Grand Island yet!). Hopefully, I find more in western Nebraska. I did get one quite unexpected meet up in Omaha this year. I was surprised to find out that ElevatorNut13 had ties to Nebraska, and that probed a meet up! Since he was in Gretna, I figured that Oak view mall retakes were a good place to start. I even got to show the elevator at Sears, Crossroads mall to someone. Between Vator Hunters and ElevatorNut13, only one bank of elevators was filmed at both meet ups, the Doubletree by Hilton in Downtown Omaha. Also, I kind of quit with vending machines because their popularity is quite annoying and stealing views away from elevators. You might also notice two "busts" in the stats. Neither of those have been uploaded yet.
Most popular elevator video uploaded this year: Most popular vending machine video uploaded this year: Videos uploaded (Published date from 1/1/2015 to 12/1/2015): 138 Elevator videos: 132 Vending machine videos: 1 Miscellaneous videos: 4 Star City Elevator videos (counted in elevator videos): 1 New trailers: 1 Requests taken: 3 Requests rejected: 2 New cameras: 0 Meet ups: 1 Busts: 2 Looking ahead: The good (1) I have almost 100 videos in my backlog, which could last up to a year if I stretched them out. But it's still more than I ever have. Looking ahead: The bad (1) Filming elevators is getting increasingly dangerous. I have heard of businesses hunting out elevator filmers over incidents of drama, illegal activity, and short-changing sellers on E-bay (I don't have an E-Bay account!). Also, UNL is not the campus it was five years ago. Filming elevators on campus is becoming increasingly dangerous. With a lot happening on the national stage, security is being stepped up and UNL Police is cracking down on photographers, which I will rant about later. Thankfully, I won't have to put up with it for much longer, but others will have to. Looking Ahead, The ugly (1) My time at UNL is almost over, and I will be heading out into the real world in 2016. I will be student teaching starting in January, and my filming ability may be limited. Office buildings will be out of the question. College campuses are almost out of the question, but I will have the summer. Long story short, drastic changes will be happening, and my elevator filming future is uncertain. I don't want to quit, but I won't go down without a fight! |
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