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MyOwnPeace

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14. Ha!

Reply to JohnnyRingo (Reply #13)

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 01:47 PM

Feb 2019

Great story about your Mom!

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Remember how department stores, other buildings had elevator operators? [View all] bobbieinok Feb 2019 OP

I remember mostly older men, some black... TreasonousBastard Feb 2019 #1

And they wore a uniform cyclonefence Feb 2019 #2

I remember the old joke about the elevator operator annnouncing CTyankee Feb 2019 #16

Oh, you were a lot more sophisticated as a fourth-grader cyclonefence Feb 2019 #17

Ground floor: Perfumery, stationary, and leather goods, wigs and haberdashery, kitchenware and food. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #23

You'd better not say that in an elevator jberryhill Feb 2019 #29

Yep, and MyOwnPeace Feb 2019 #3

Weren't there TV commercials showing how much faster their workers were?? bobbieinok Feb 2019 #4

One of my high school classmates Lindsay Feb 2019 #5

And the joke was that they had to fire an operator ... Basic LA Feb 2019 #6

The job has its ups and downs. n/t Harker Feb 2019 #26

LOL Basic LA Feb 2019 #34

Damn right. Harker Feb 2019 #35

My grandfather was the GP6971 Feb 2019 #7

My great aunt was an elevator operator at the Tulsa Club when I was a little girl. Runningdawg Feb 2019 #8

In 40s Gramma and I would walk downtown to Woolworths and eat at the lunch counter on Saturday bobbieinok Feb 2019 #19

Across the street from the station now is the Greek Orthodox Church of the big Greek fall festival bobbieinok Feb 2019 #20

I didn't grow up in Tulsa, I lived in Osage County Runningdawg Feb 2019 #25

Alas, another one of those jobs that went by the wayside mitch96 Feb 2019 #9

Yes, I remember. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #10

I remember having to use the stairs ar a hotel because Sneederbunk Feb 2019 #11

The Museum, Die Neue Gallerie, still has an elevator operator. I asked... LAS14 Feb 2019 #12

Maybe she wasn't an elevator operator Codeine Feb 2019 #22

At my local Sears. JohnnyRingo Feb 2019 #13

Ha! MyOwnPeace Feb 2019 #14

OMG - Filene's Boston....I remember the old elevator with gate and attendant...to go to Filene's asiliveandbreathe Feb 2019 #15

Jordan's furniture Blues Heron Feb 2019 #32

When I was little, I actually wanted to be an elevator operator when I grew up. red dog 1 Feb 2019 #18

The developing world still has a lot of elevator operators IronLionZion Feb 2019 #21

I *was* an elevator operator! needledriver Feb 2019 #24

You probably took me up at one time or another frazzled Feb 2019 #30

I was at NYU from 1972 - 76 needledriver Feb 2019 #31

That was before the executive management and investors democratisphere Feb 2019 #27

I had a very short, like 4 ft. something friend, nocoincidences Feb 2019 #28

Reminds me of Nanci Griffith's classic "Love At The 5 And Dime." Paladin Feb 2019 #33

Last time I was in the Senate Office Building SCantiGOP Feb 2019 #36

We used to have Hudson's Department Store back in the here in Detroit MrScorpio Feb 2019 #37