Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | BP - "Infarct a Laptop Daily" |
Date: | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:25:03 -0800 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
I'm sure you've all seen that famous historic photo of the Klondikers making
their way up a precipitous set of steps carved out the snow in the Chilkoot
Pass. (See "Small Golden Staircase" on Onelist). A found-art piece
substituting a defunct escalator for the pass might be just the thing. Some
of the period promotional literature about the Gold Rush did paint a rose
coloured picture about how fast, safe and easy it was to get to the
Klondike. I don't think it went quite that far, though.
-----Original Message-----
From: Met History [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 1:01 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Hey, Yukon-guy, free escalator!!! (but ...
you pick up)
(Cross-posted from SAH-L by Christopher Gray)
I have been contacted by real estate group in California
doing some work
on a building which has a 1940s "Motorstair" escalator they
cannot use it
(no longer operable and not up to code), but do not want to
simply throw
it away. I have additional information and some
photographs - if anyone
has any ideas on where this escalator might find a good home
please contact me
off-list - thanks!
Mary Margaret Carr
Collections Manager
National Building Museum
(202) 272-2448 ext. 3702
email: [log in to unmask]
|
|
|