Vertical parking garage, New York City style.

[toggleswitch2]

a friend from the "country" can't conceptualize a two-story (or taller) parking garage without ramps.

Le voila (Here it is).

Here is a parking garage, NYC-style. Upper and basement level is accessible to park vehicles via a vehicle elevator (lift: UK).

6,000 Lb capacity (2,727 kg +/-)

 

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elevator itself

 

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looking out from it, instead of into it.

Pulling on that rope lowers the top half of the gate and raises the lower hald of the gate.

Pcitured is the second (top) floor.

 

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Some vehicles are double-deckered to create more parking spaces...

 

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Here is what the elevator gate looks like when closed (from outside the elevator).

 

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That's all folks!

 

[frigilux]

Wow---I had no idea such a thing existed. All the parking ramps I've ever been in are the traditional kind with...a ramp. This design is certainly a more efficient use of space.

My favorite parking experience is an open lot in downtown Chicago. You tell the attendant what time you'll be back, and the employees proceed to jam your car as far back into the lot as they can. If you come back earlier than planned, they have to move a dozen cars around to get to yours. One learns not to come back early, LOL.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Well I'm glad this is informative. Where I come from (the biggest city in the country) we see a great deal that others may not.

As a kid I used to make fun of those who came from places that had never seen a revolving door. These are actually quite unique and can be dangerous to the unfamiliar....but I suppose that is another thread!

 

[whirlcool]

Bad Boy

When I was a pre teen I used to go into department stores such as Marshall Field's and Wieboldt's and push the revolving door around really fast! I loved to see the women in high heels come flying out the other side trying to catch their balance on the stone floors in the stores. The men usually just had bizzare looks on their faces. One time a woman exiting the door to the street side started spinning like a top until one of her heels got stuck in the service elevator grate near the entrance. Boy did she come to an abrupt stop.
When I was in high school I noticed these stores put in some kind of hydraulic device that prevented this. The harder you pushed to make it go fast, the more it would slow down and become VERY hard to push.

 

[toggleswitch2]

My favorite is the ones who refuse to help push the door. When they figure you ain't pushin' neitha' they get a panicked look on their faces as the doors slow down if "this is a trap" then watch them push like the devil to fight the doors' initial inertia!

Ah to be young and evil again.. LOL

 

[foraloysius]

Young and wild...

As Blackadder said:

"I want to be young and wild;
then I want to be middle aged and fat;
then I want to be old and annoy people by pretending I'm deaf".

 

[hydralique]

Whirlcool,

As a kid were you envisioning that seen from above a revolving door spinning at a high rate of speed must have looked just a little like the propellor on an airplane?

 

[whirlcool]

then I want to be old and annoy people by pretending I'm deaf".

Karen has a friend who is quite a contrary woman. She does this intentionally to get a rise out of her friends. As the conversation progresses she speaks more softly and finally she is just whispering. It makes you mad and it's aggravating. One time I confronted her about it and she said "Who? Me? Why I'd never......"
So a few weeks ago our 10 year old Sony cordless phone died and we replaced it with one of those "Clarity" brand phones. It has a built in amp. When she starts her speaking softly BS we just turn on the amp and raise the volume accordingly. After about three days of this she asked Karen, Aren't you having difficulty hearing me? You are always complaining about that.
Karen said, "No I can hear you just fine". An added bonus is that we can hear EVERYTHING going on in her house, like other peoples conversations in the background.

 

[whirlcool]

Hydralique

I never thought of revolving doors in that way, but you must be on to something...
My parents believe that I got interested in aviation due to the fact that from the time I was 2 years old or so they used to take me to the airport to drop my Dad off (he flew with Braniff) and then to watch the Constellations and DC-4's & 6's come in for landing at Chicago Midway and at Love Field in Dallas. We come from a long line of people in aviation. My sister was an F/A for TWA in the 80's and my brother doesn't have any interest at all in aviation and my Mother couldn't stand airplanes. Go figure. She thought all they do is crash.

 

[hydralique]

Memories . . .

Braniff . . . that brings back memories of Pucci-clad stewardesses!

I still remember flying between Love and LAX as child in the late '60s, although I think this was mostly on American 727s. Believe me, my mother made sure both my sister and I were all dressed up for the flight. Love had those wonderful, heavily tinted blue slanted windows and of course the terrazo floors. Once at LAX my grandmother would pick us up in her huge white '64 Ford Country Squire wagon (with the red interior) and whisk us past Paul Williams' Theme Building and off to Chinatown for lunch. It all made me feel like such a little jet-set guy.

 

[mielabor]

In Amsterdam...

We have similar parking installations. This is the exterior view. The arrow points to the window through which you can see the parked cars.

 

[mielabor]

Peeking through the (dirty) window. The arrow points to the turntable. The cars have to be turned 90 degrees before they can be placed on the parking shelves. The shelves are moving around on a conveyor chain.

 

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The conveyor chain.

 

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If you want to order one yourself

 

[toggleswitch2]

Way cool.

Amesterdam's version so SO MUCH PRETTIER!

 

[mielabor]

Unfortunately not all parking garages in Amsterdam are so well adapted to the environment. There is a tendency to create more underground parking space which is also fine. Most of the underground parking garages have ramps, but here is one with a car elevator. The elevator (see arrow in picture) is in the down position. I waited some time but it didn't come up

 

[westyslantfront]

I remember those garages with elevators in New York.

Ross

 

[vintagesearch]

rotating doors....

LMAO, with all those stories LOL!!!! that made my night i know people that do that!!! im not one though...