# Have You Ever Driven a "Real" Elevator?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-real-elevator/596555>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 16, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-real-elevator/596555 "2011-09-16T20:52:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-real-elevator/596555/41 "2011-09-23T01:07:37Z")

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When I used to ride one to/from my 48th floor Boston office I would sometimes tell my fellow passengers that “This is a Maxwell House elevator…(pause)…good to the last drop.”

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-real-elevator/596555/42 "2011-09-23T01:15:23Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Interesting! I didn’t know that’s what those were called. I’d only ever seen one in a movie (German, I think).

There’s also one in the Brian de Palma film **Obsession**

> **[Obsession (1976) ⭐ 6.7 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074991/)**
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> 1h 38m | PG

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**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-real-elevator/596555/43 "2011-09-23T19:00:31Z")

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> [@AndyLee](#):
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> You’re correct, the members I must say 99.9% of them have been very nice to me.
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> It’s just the women seem to always want to get off on the floor with the men’s baths and talk to their husbands. I can’t let them, I have to take a message. But I have yet to have any men try to get off at the floor with the women’s baths. And even then they’re not being that mean, they just don’t understand why they can’t go, even though I told them before, and they know the rules.
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> I thought my biggest problem would be the cell phones. In the interview that came up, but everyone so far observes that rule. The club has real phone booths, made out of wood and they have the pay phone, but people go in to the phone booths to use their cell phones.

Thirty years ago, in 1982, your employer (and I know who it is) had 1200 members. What’s it down to today?

I know similar clubs in the city, albeit not exactly peers, are struggling to get younger people interested in joining, lest, like the celibate Shakers (3 members left as of January 2011), they entirely vanish.

Also, do they still have butt booty nekkid swimming in the men’s pool?

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-real-elevator/596555/44 "2011-09-23T19:53:14Z")

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I’ve driven some very old and very scary elevators at power plants, but only briefly and for my own purposes. One in Michigan dated from before WW1.

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