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  2. Elevator operator - Wikipedia

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    The elevator operator had to regulate the elevator's speed, which typically required a good sense of timing to consistently stop the elevator level with each floor. In addition to their training in operation and safety, department stores later combined the role of operator with greeter and tour guide , announcing product departments, floor by ...

  3. List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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    An elevator operator ran a manually operated elevator. Elevator operators still work in some historic or specialist installations and fill modern niches, such as in luxury hotels and Japanese department stores. [87] The introduction of automated elevators combined with operator strikes led to the almost complete elimination of elevator ...

  4. Joseph Zito (elevator operator) - Wikipedia

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    Zito had been working as an elevator operator at Triangle Waist Company in Manhattan for six months when the fire broke out at the factory. On March 25, 1911, at approximately 4:40 pm on Saturday as the workday was ending, a fire flared up in a scrap bin under one of the cutters' tables at the northeast corner of the 8th floor. [ 4 ]

  5. List of construction trades - Wikipedia

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    Elevator mechanic installs vertical lift and transporting equipment. Fencer, a tradesperson who builds fences. Glazier, installs glass. Heavy equipment operator, a driver and operator of heavy equipment used in engineering and construction projects. [4]

  6. 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was thrown from her elevator car on the 80th floor and suffered severe burns. First aid workers placed her on another elevator car to transport her to the ground floor, but the cables supporting that elevator had been damaged in the incident, and it fell 75 stories, ending up in the basement. [13]

  7. Operator error blamed for elevator incident that led to death ...

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    An incident involving an elevator at a former Colorado gold mine that led to the death of a tour guide and trapped a group of tourists for hours last year...

  8. Bill Dana - Wikipedia

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    In 1961, Dana made the first of eight appearances on The Danny Thomas Show, playing Jimenez as a bumbling but endearing elevator operator. The character was so well-received that it was spun off into his own NBC sitcom, The Bill Dana Show (1963–1965). Jiménez was now a bellhop at a posh New York hotel.

  9. Dick Rowland - Wikipedia

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    Rowland was 19 years old at the time. The alleged victim of the assault was a white 21-year-old elevator operator Sarah Page (born July 27, 1899). [a] She later declined to advocate for and/or assist any prosecution after the race riots. According to conflicting reports, the arrest was prompted after Rowland tripped in Page's elevator on his ...