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I've heard from several places that there are elevators that can be installed in multi-story dwellings serving just one household, all without blowing the bank. I've also heard that they can pull off 50 feet. I'm very intrigued, as it makes development of townhomes that are designed to get residents above the treeline (i.e. 4 stories) more user-friendly.

Anybody familiar with these? Costs?

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I've heard from several places that there are elevators that can be installed in multi-story dwellings serving just one household, all without blowing the bank. I've also heard that they can pull off 50 feet. I'm very intrigued, as it makes development of townhomes that are designed to get residents above the treeline (i.e. 4 stories) more user-friendly.

Anybody familiar with these? Costs?

A townhome on Elgin and Bagby has one, it is a 3 story unit, and modest looking.

A friend of mine was renting it for a year and had a holiday party in it. It was a good topic starter since everyone wanted to ride on it.

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I knew someone in Atlantic City who had one in his two-story home. He was huge, and I guess anticipating an upcoming blown hip when he had his house built.

I'd certainly rather have a real elevator in my home than one of those contraptions that pulls you up along the bannister of the stairs.

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I've lived in buildings of all sizes, usually on higher floors, and never thought much about it. So today I was very surprised to meet a woman who has an acute fear of elevators!

She lives on the third floor of a building, and is on the elderly side, so she has to take the elevator to and from home. But she dreads it. So much so that she plans her life so that she only has to use the elevator twice a day -- once when leaving in the morning, and again when returning in the evening.

I don't know her employment status -- she's old enough that she could easily be retired, and therefore able to stay in for days at a time. But she did tell me this -- She spends hundreds of dollars a month on parking tickets because she won't park in her assigned space deep in her building's underground garage. She parks on the top floor so that it cuts down on the time she spends in the elevator. That's actually how all this came up -- I saw the parking ticket in her hand and asked her about it.

I know there are lots of people with lots of phobias, but I'd never heard of a fear of elevators before. I wonder if it's somehow related to claustrophobia.

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Wow - I wonder what her situation is to be living on a third floor in the first place. If it were really extreme (assuming she is financially independent and/or has a say where she lives) I'd think she would plan her life around making sure she lived on a ground floor..

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To bring up an old-fashioned term: is she merely claustrophobic?

I've always found escalators terrifying.

There's a step...and then - there isn't!

That's "Escalaphobia", by the way.

Fear of elevators is related to Climacophobia, the fear of enclosed places from what I can see.

I had a relative that had the same phobia and we found it a bit entertaining when she'd do an about face or peel away from our group to hunt down an elevator.

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Wow - I wonder what her situation is to be living on a third floor in the first place. If it were really extreme (assuming she is financially independent and/or has a say where she lives) I'd think she would plan her life around making sure she lived on a ground floor..

I got the impression that she didn't have a choice about where she lived, like she either lived with a son/daughter because of her age, or if she's still working that she has to live in that place because of her job.

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Elevators have become boring, anyway. Those of us who remember ones in older buildings that still had mechanical controls could thrill to that weightless feeling in the stomach when they'd descend and feeling ones knees slightly buckle when ascending.

Can't say if they actually were faster than modern ones, but they sure felt that way.

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Roky Erickson just played here at the Continental Club the day before Halloween. I missed it but judging from the videos on YouTube he didn't look quite as "with it" as he has at other shows in recent years. With all he's been through, though, it's nothing short of a minor miracle that he's still playing at all. 

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Roky also played on one of the Red Krayola (originally spelled Crayola)albums recorded in 1967 at the International Artists studio in Houston, where the 13th Floor Elevators also recorded. The album was called The Parable of the Arable Land. Red Krayola was a psychedelic band formed by 3 students from the University of St Thomas. I was a student there at the same time.

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Roky also played on one of the Red Krayola (originally spelled Crayola)albums recorded in 1967 at the International Artists studio in Houston, where the 13th Floor Elevators also recorded. The album was called The Parable of the Arable Land. Red Krayola was a psychedelic band formed by 3 students from the University of St Thomas. I was a student there at the same time.

 

Listen to this.....................plunk.

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