I Know this has been discussed before, but I can find NO apartments, or even garage numbers of 13!
Are people just this superstitious?
Or is it only older buildings? Has anyone seen an apt. or whatever number 13?
It seems totally ridiculous.
Though as an aside; in a bugs bunny cartoon, daffy duck as hotel boy bothers a man who is in room number 666…
Yes, I have seen an apartment number 13.
My previous office building had a 13th floor.
I think the tradition of avoiding number 13 is slowly disappearing.
I was on four separate flights last week. none of the airplanes had a row 13. they did however have 31 which is were i sat on the hell flight into JFK Saturday night during a bitch of a lightning storm.
Isn’t it disturbing to fly airlines that are superstitious? 
Most apartment numbers are usually the floor number followed by two digits. And street addresses (garage numbers?) usually starte with a 100 block, not a unit (0-99) block. So 13 wouldn’t be in these ranges anyway.
Aside: Alexandria, VA, does start it’s addressing with a unit block instead of 100 block. A store was built on the riverfront over the water, and so took the number 0 as its address (Full Metal Jacket, 0 Prince Street).
I live in a condo with 25 units and I am #26… The unit next to me is 12 so I guess I was supposed to be 13…
My house number is 13, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen a house numbered 13. Of course, this is also the first time I’ve seen houses on a street begin with 1 instead of, say, 100. The house I used to live in was 403, but our next door neighbors weren’t 405, they were 409. I don’t know why this is, but not numbering consecutively allows for easy skippage of thirteen.
I’ve mostly seen 13 skipped in the numbering of floors of a building, not individual apartments. And these buildings were mostly older, FWIW.
AWD said:
Is this really true in most cities? Here in Denver we have two 000 E/W N/S dividing streets. Houses immediately next to those streets would range from 0 to 100.
Maybe not too relevant, but I remember watching a video once called “Sweet and Savage” i think, and there was a group of people going bungee jumping off this 14 story building. However, the person who jumped off the building also whammed his head open as he apparently reached the floor. The reason being, the building had no “level 13”, and the group had prepared a rope supposedly long enough for 14 stories.
Newer (built in the last 20 years) buildings around here (Houston) have 13th floors (if they’re tall enough). I do remember older buildings lacking such. I think the “pretend there isn’t a 13th floor” phenomenon has died.
Anybody remember a great Texas band of the '60s, the 13th Floor Elevators?
If it’s any help from a UK perspective I don’t recall ever seeing houses or flats missing 13 out. Not so many buildings with over floors so smaller sample but our office built in early sixties has a 13th floor.
BTW off topic but if you agree with;
then don’t fly Royal Brunei Airlines - a few years ago they started a 10 minute pre-take off prayer to Allah over the intercom. Makes you wonder what happened to make them conclude it was a good idea - but whatever it was then it must have happened again as it started out as a 5 minute prayer…
and my next-door-neighbor is apartment number 13.
(play eerie music)
Of course, this IS New Jersey, Home of the Jersey Devil and Christine Whitlessman.