The Hall of Fame posts are typically some of the more popular blogs in the Colley blog history. We get to see a lot of elevators during the year at our initial visits for pricing or during engineering for projects. Of the hundreds of elevators and thousands of pictures we look at, these are some of the gems I've seen this past year.
Olive Oil – Popeye the cartoon was on every once in a while
when I was younger and was always a treat.
Bluto would mess with Popeye, somehow Olive Oil would get involved then
Popeye would eat his spinach and save the day. Lots of things going on in this
elevator pit; 2 pit buckets, a rec pump and lots of oil. I’ll give it to the elevator that it is a
very crummy cylinder head but holy smokes!
This elevator pit needs some spinach.
Art class is for creativity – I like to think I was creative
and orbited creative people; artists, musicians, metal workers, etc. While I try, that part of my brain never
developed as much as my friends/coworkers.
There is a place and time for creativity and that time is not for emergency hoist way opening
devices.
The teacher gave you a D – Bozo called and said he needs a
new Cookie. I’ll check the check charts and make my recommendation. This is
from getting a call to go to a building and bid maintenance and a project that a
consultant was part of. The elevator
maintenance company was coming to the building monthly, but the building got a “D”
grade for maintenance from the consultant.
As an industry we can do better, this car top is a disappointment.
All Star– Do you remember that song from the band Smashmouth? They had a few singles, but now they have a great gig doing summer dates with Sugar Ray
and probably making some good money on nostalgia. Well the singer of Smashmouth had a personal
implosion and broke up the band. I think
it would be pretty cool to play weekend festivals and get paid $20,000 to 40,000
per show. I don’t know if I remember
seeing two egress levels before, maybe the guy from Smashmouth is the Braille
guy for an elevator company and only puts up star Braille. We would hire him just to say we work with
the guy from Smashmouth.
When it rains it pours– One of my favorite bands is a group
called Jawbreaker who had the Morton Salt girl on their shirts for the longest
time. Jawbreaker ended up signing to a
major label and put a great record out but it was ahead of its time. They
eventually broke up and then we all caught up and now love this record. In Chicago we had a super storm that clocked
the neighborhood in Chicago called Rogers Park. This neighborhood was mainly constructed in
the late 1960s and most of the elevators do not have sumps.
Your hair is everywhere– There was a guy from Florida called
Chris Carrabba who was in a few bands, most notably Dashboard Confessional, and hit it big by singing a song called “Screaming
Infidelities”. I always wondered where
all the hair that he mentions in his song went. I would imagine this is 30
years of hair that has collected here, is this hair screaming infidelities?
Free storage – In a lot of residential buildings we take
care of you need to pay for storage or buy the unit. A few people know the secret room where you
can jam in all your stuff for free - our elevator room! And thank you to the building for doing this because we, as elevator personnel, love moving your stuff out of the machine room to service your elevator. The bright side is that we can give the people waiting for the broken elevator to be fixed a chair to sit on and pumpkins to play with while they wait.
Who done it? – Professor Plum in the cloak room with the
candle stick. I know we don’t like
Madison controllers and they all should have been modernized by now but Holy
Smokes! License and registration please.
Snake eyes– I always wanted to know why Snake Eyes didn’t
talk and Storm Shadow did? Why was Snake
Eyes in black and was good and Storm Shadow in white and bad? We cleaned up a packing leak at an industrial
facility the other day and found this little fella in our elevator pit. I'm color blind but did you notice that Cobra Commander wore Dover blue in the 1980s? Could Cobra Commander have been the CEO of Dover Elevator? Destro his #2? What did the Baroness do? Is Serpentor in charge of TKE?
John Dodds and Dustin Witham I’m thinking of you guys as the Super Bowl is happening and hope you brokered some type of friendly wager.
If you have any questions or would like additional information feel free to contact me at CraigZ@colleyelevator.com or 630-766-7230 ext. 107.
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