Posted in EW Magazine on Feb 25th, 2009
Our tour of the Elevator World facilities continues today with the Production Department. There are four of us: Lillie, Bambi, Ginger and myself, or “Designing Women” as we are called around the office. Together we design, assemble and lay out ELEVATOR WORLD magazine, ELEVATOR WORLD India, the ELEVATOR WORLD Source Directory, the EURO Source Directory, [...]
Posted in General on Feb 24th, 2009
No, we have not started writing our posts in French but around our city, Mobile, AL USA, this term is actually used on a daily basis during the months of January and February. What does it mean? Simply, “Let the good times roll!” It’s Mardi Gras season here and over the last two weeks parades have rolled [...]
Posted in General on Feb 18th, 2009
In our continuation of the tour of the ELEVATOR WORLD offices let’s take a look at key personnel from the Commercial Division. These are the people responsible for the advertising, marketing and sales of EW’s magazines, books, websites and other media. Several faces should be recognizable by the industry, because they travel to trade shows and meetings, but others [...]
Posted in General on Feb 16th, 2009
This is only one of the questions employees at Elevator World have been asking in the last few months as renovations have been taking place throughout the property. The most recent was an overhaul of the kitchen in the commercial building. From my desk just outside the door to the kitchen, I have had a [...]
Posted in Safety on Feb 13th, 2009
We had a great response from people eager to test their safety knowledge and submit answers to our “What’s Wrong With This Picture” contest. However, we have not had a great response to our requests for more photographs. We would love to keep this contest going, but have run out of new images.
If you have [...]
Posted in Travel on Feb 11th, 2009
On a recent trip to New York City our Vice President, T. Bruce MacKinnon, took the opportunity to tour the New York based companies of Claddagh Electronics, Ltd., Liberty Elevator & Electrical Supply and Janus Elevator Products, Inc. Here are a few snapshots from his trip:
Claddagh Visit:
Liberty Visit:
Janus Visit:
If there is an industry exhibition or conference in your area that [...]
Posted in General on Feb 6th, 2009
Elevator World has now entered the blogosphere…Welcome to Elevator World Unplugged! First of all, for those of you who are not exactly sure what a blog is, here is how Websters defines it:
an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page
Elevator World Unplugged is a blog created and maintained by the staff [...]
Posted in General on Feb 2nd, 2009
This photo is taken from the top floor (penthouse level) of our offices here at ELEVATOR WORLD. This is our conference room, and actually the only room we have that’s not on the ground floor.
Nope, no skyscraper or mid-rise office building with multiple elevators. In fact, our offices here in Mobile, Alabama (USA) actually have [...]
Posted in EW Museum on Feb 1st, 2009
We’ve been very busy with our archives collection lately, and we are happy to say that it is growing! Most recently, we received a Stigler document from 1893 that contains information on the lift installation in the Hotel Kursaal Moloja in Switzerland. A few weeks before that, we received some original Otis stationary from the [...]