[Phys-L] Re: elevators

[britton at NCSSM.EDU (Chuck Britton)]

IIRC the Toronto City Hall was built in the '60's with the 13th floor
devoted to infrastructure.
Main elevators had no button for it.



At 7:00 PM -0500 12/14/04, Hugh Haskell wrote:
> At 16:56 -0500 12/14/04, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
> > I was recently in a hotel elevator in NYC. Are there any hotels anywhere
> > in the world with a numerical 13th floor? I realize this has to do with
> > superstition and not physics, but I'm still curious.
>
> Well, they can call it whatever they want to, but if the building has
> more than 12 stories, then the next one is the 13th, whether they
> call it that or not.
>
> Is my memory correct that the film "Being John Malcovich" had a
> thirteenth story wedged in between the twelfth and fourteenth, in
> such a way that you had to somehow stop the elevator between floors
> to get there? As I recall, that wasn't the only weird thing about
> that film.
>
> Hugh
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