Comment by cobbzilla

Random off topic trivia

This building is at Market & New Montgomery, and was built in 1907, and has an award-winning elevator.

For some years I worked on the same block, at the corner of Market & 2nd St. That building (605 Market) was built in 1917 and if that elevator wins any awards it’ll be for slowness and low-availability. It was constantly out of service, and when it did run it was so slow that it was faster to take the stairs, even to the top floor.

I was once in the elevator room, among other oddities was the most monstrously large mechanical computer I’ve ever seen, managing the elevator.

I wonder if it’s finally been replaced.