Going up on the Fast Schindler Elevators at Sears/Willis Tower Skydeck in Chicago
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- Video of the ride on famous elevators at the Sears Tower in Downtown Chicago, Illinois. These elevators are some of the fastest in North America, reaching a top speed of 18.2 mph or 29.3 km/h. The fastest elevators in North America are located at the John Hancock Center in Chicago and the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas, which reach a top speed of 20.5 mph or 33.14 km/h.
==Skydeck Elevator Specifications==
Manufacture: Westinghouse Electric
Elevator Type: DC Gearless Traction
Capacity: 4000 lbs. (1818.2 kg)
Year Installed: 1973
Elevator Bank Size: 2
Floors Served: LL2, 99, 103
Speed: 1600 FPM (8.18 m/s)
Leasing/Tourist Information:
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This one just popped up in my recommendations. Nice dose of nostalgia.
I have been in the winch room for these elevators. It was awesome!
That sounds awesome! I really hope you can get a button panel from here once the remaining elevators get modernized.
Beuh
The way this dude says “woow” 😂
YEEEE
woowah
Imagine how large the machines are! They must be massive!
Are these fast
@@jonathanstarling1082should be they say they go 18 mph
I Went to Chicago Last week and went to the top of the skydeck !!! your Ears will POP !! While on the Elevator Going up that Buliding it is VERY TALL !!! It is so Fun Stepping out onto the Glass skyDeck.
These fast elevators are going on my bucket list!
when we were on the elevator, you could literally hear peoples' ears pop. it was CRAZY
103rd floor, the floor that reach from the bottom in 60 seconds (1 minute) as it takes for the video to the 103rd floor over Skydeck at the Sears Tower. Lately I visit Chicago, IL this summer.
They had to say "long distance fall!" Makes me feel real safe about going to the top of that building.
I visited the Willis Tower 2 years ago, and they had a completely different film on the TV!
I love going there and do so quite often!
Woah! This tower is huge
The company Willis buy this tower from Sears.
Sears Tower is now Willis Tower.
I will never forget going up to the top on my 8th bday in 2002. I just got an American girl doll earlier too and I held on to her for dear life.
Press the buttons
Wow...That's a TALL building!! I've never been to a big city like Chicago before. In fact, the tallest building I've been in is a 19 story building and I thought THAT was super tall...LOL!
The Shields Willis Tower is the second tallest building in the U.S. There are taller buildings than Willis Tower, believe me.
This is the tallest building in the US. The WTC 1's 400ft stick shouldn't count.
the tallest I've seen is in Toronto/Ontario/Canada it's 45 floors tall!!!!!😃
The Shields tallest I've been in was 105 floors but the tallest lift I have ever ridden by myself was 30 floors it was so fast it made NASA space jets slow
That elevated quickly
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The elevators here on Skyscrapersim are still Westinghhouse but with replaced call buttons.
just went up there last weekend, i love taht little cartoon LOL!
My ears popped and I couldn't hear for 30 minutes after I got on, then when I got off another 30 minutes. Sears tower forever.
:D I love Chicago.
As of 2009, this is now the Willis tower, the bird videos were replaced with a boring video which just shows skyscrapers on the way up, and facts while going down, the 2 buildings on the walls on floor 103 were painted over and now has a big 103 on it
I went to the sky deck one time, and they jammed so many people on the elevator that the alarms went off. Now I have a huge fear of getting stuck in one.
I used to watch this video when I was young
I like the contrast between this one and that service elevator that stops every 30-40 floors
Over 100 floors?!
Unbelieveable!
--Tracy
Your ears feel weird while going up! XD
@spartan4480 Yeah, and it has emergency elevator doors in between those three floors, just in case!
Proud to come from IL
I got to experience this in November 2010!
@SHAWN119100 THis is the elevator for the observation deck / tourists. If you work in the Sears / Willis Tower you use different elevators that actually stop @ the other floors.
Can't wait til the Old chicago Post Office Hotel is finished, it will be 2000 feet. Same with the Chicago spire. The Willis tower soon will be the new John Hancock building.
james robbins liar
my ears popped like 8 times while going up this elevator it was traveling like 2 floors per second
what if you want to go to floor 50 or 60??? there are only buttons for floor 99 and 103... imagine walking up there.
@WWEIsTheAwesome No, this is the tourist elevator. There is a service elevator for employees. I have had multiple family members work there. So I have had a tour of the whole building.
I've been there before. When I was in the elevator my head felt like it was gonna explode because of all the pressure because I was so high up ( not on drugs ). Going down was worse.XD
PaulDuhTaco same on the thyssenkrupps at WTC
Did you float or slam into the ceiling going down?
Love this elevator and very fast
I went there last 2 months or 1 month so fun!
You're absolutely right!
One of the very first skyscrapers I have been in
I remember buying a figurine of the tower and the 1/4 of the very top of the figurine broke off and I had to super glue it back
Wow, have they really renovated the cabs and fixtures. Last time I was up there it was 25 years ago. From what i remember in the cab, there was no floor indicator, just a picture of the building with an orange progress bar.
The Sears Tower elevators in Downtown Chicago are awesome! This counts the TV and how fast it is! :D
are you still here
been in there so many times. I love chicago so much. bout time to move back i think
no freakin' way..........I would freak the heck out
@YamiPoyo because the are the only 2 floors with the skydecks the rest are pretty much business rooms only.
i went on that today. it was crazy fast. i also like the skybox thing. its cool
Going up I think would be more scary. But down, would make you sick. Good video MusicFreakCC
It's an express zone. In other words; it does not serve those floors.
These are NOT Otis. Otis did the John Hancock Tower. These are Westinghouse and modernized by Schindler.
You wanna see some really fast elevators? You should go to the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, the Columbia Center in Seattle, and the JP Morgan Chase Tower in Houston.
I’ve been to that tower back in 2013
im always afraid of elevators but now i love it
Haha wow. It's Willis. "I know lots about the sears tower". Lol
There's just a thing I don't like...the interior display showing the floors' decades only, like the Empire State Building elevators.
I loved the displays in the World Trade Center elevators, that used to show every floors from the ground level to the 107th floor.
that elevator looks just like the elevator in the world trade center videos i saw, the red numbers are the same and everything...hmmm weird.. and i found out that both buildings and the sears tower were built in the same year :O
Camera: Casio EX-Z77
Mic: Built in
THAT IS THE TALLEST TOWER IN THE WORLD!
You forgot the Burj Khalifa
Skyscraper alpha 10 Refences : Take Freight Elevator to LL2 ,Next Take Skydeck Elevator to 103/F
this guy doesnt need a stairway to heaven, he can just take the elevator! lol
ok, why did you press the button when the door was already open????
crazy tourists....geeeee willackers pa', I aint seen this far since i stood on mamas shoulders on our mobile home....whoooooo..weeeee...!
J'adore les coasters et montagnes russes, ainsi que les tours de chute, attractions, ou même sauts à l'élastique que j'ai effectués plusieurs fois. Mais les ascenseurs rapides de gratte-ciels me font autant d'effets, et sont aussi pour moi une attraction, car ils sont en position debout (surtout sur la pointe des pieds), alors que les attractions sont seulement à 98 % assises (celles debout sont très rares), et même si les accélérations verticales sont plus fortes (jusqu'à +/-1 g, alors que pour les ascenseurs rapides, c'est +/- 0,1 g prolongé ici durant 8 secondes (8 m/s)), il n'y a pas assis cet effet de déséquilibre (sensibilité de l'oreille interne), et pour un saut à l'élastique, certes impressionnant, il n'y a pas non plus cet effet de sol qui se dérobe ou soulève les pieds non plus, qui existe dans un ascenseur. Je suis étonné que les gens s'amusent dans une ridicule chenille de fête foraine (qui ne me fait que très peu de sensation assise), et ne cherchent pas comme moi à effectuer des allers et retours dans les ascenseurs rapides, en restant indifférents (y compris dans les plus rapides, qui sont souvent réservés curieusement aux bureaux, banques ou hôtels de luxe... !)
Salut je suis comme moi car j aime les ascenseur à sensation de 15 étages où plus sa doit être fantastique les ascenseur de sensation surtout a New York avec le state Building bonne année à toi
@@francoisruel2056 Merci beaucoup, François. Le problème est que je suis le seul à effectuer des allers et retours dans les ascenseurs rapides, si c'est pour visiter le panorama du gratte-ciel The Shard par exemple à Londres, ils m'ont les 5 années où je suis venu 3 jours, dont l'un à parc Thorpe Park (avec Stealth, etc...), accordé aimablement l'autorisation, mais pour d'autres, je n'ai pas eu d'autre choix que de venir sans être client, salarié ou habitant, en faisant croire que je fais partie de l'immeuble, mais en me voyant effectuer des allers et retours, certains trouvent insolites et me dénoncent parfois aux vigiles, ce qui est embêtant à chaque fois... Pourquoi 99 % des gens sont-ils aussi insensibles aux accélérations des ascenseurs rapides, y compris les enfants, et par contre aussi sensibles aux ridicules mini- montagnes russes assises, je n'ai jamais compris ce fait...
I was there last week and they put like 50 people in the elavator
OMG this video Upload at November 2008
12 years ago
I'm going on Tuesday. I'm so excited! ^ . ^ CAN'T WAIT. ASDFGHJKL
18 mph! To the 103rd floor my ears are really going to pop
This place is all renovated & Rip to these Schindler elevators now modernized to Otis.
@Rokulda
First of all, I said in North America. Burj isnt in North America. Its also not in India...its in the UAE....
The elevator is a Westinghouse
Yeah I've been on those elevators they are really fast
i went there two times one was with my cousin and other with my parents, the first time that i went there i was feeling bad when the elevator was going up!! lol
they changed it alot now there is no cartoon you have to take a elevator down then get on that elevator and they control it for you and you have to wait in a really long line
Those are Westinghouse elevators. Looks like the hall call button is original.
CN tower isnt 5 times taller, it's skinny needle at the top is taller than the roof, it's skydeck is well below Sear's tower skydeck.
I went last July. It was excellent timing! The glass balconies had just opened, and it was still called the Sears Tower. Willis Tower sounds too wimpy to be American.
im gonna go there this summer probably and im not afriad of heights,i LOVE heights, i love the way how i feel like im on top of the planet lol
i miss chicago it is where i was born
Shit gets scary in the 70s
Press the button already.
Not too many floors to choose from the panel, but all the same I found the video "uplifting". :-)
Looks like the one was basement 2? LL2
Then 99 and 103
@norxcontacts Not anymore. They now tell you how high up you are as compared to, for example, the sphinx. (There are other comparisons it gives you, but I can't think of any more at the moment.)
Sears tower is the tallest building in the us and about all the tallest buildings in the us are in the best city in the world Chicago
Holy crap im in this video. it shows me for a second O_O
Imagine if the fire alarm went off and then elevator shuts down. It will be a nice job to evacuate 1000 people from the top floor!
😯
1st of all, I love how they don't consider this a terrorist threat yet Simon malls think the worst. Also what are on floors 10, 20, 30 etc.?
Only 3 levels on this elevator.
LL
99
103
@ecn10111 It's an express elevator.
when i went up sears tower\willis tower one of the elevators were in fire service and i only went to 99 because they were putting in the glass boxes.
It was great!!!
@wawawis I would think that covers the cost of a floor with a stop. Floors without a stop are probably much less.
Do you have to press the floor buttons now? When I was there there was just a send button outside in the hall. It was kinda neat actually.
I know that the simple 2-stop elevators start out around &65K and could cost as much as $90K. I've also heard to budget 20K~40K per floor. That said, these elevators must be astronomical in cost, somewhere between 2~4 million dollars each.
how was it!! :D
remember the competiton between The Sears (What ya' talkin' 'bout) Willis Tower and The WTC....guess that seems unsignificant now!
And this is the most tall no
Way!
No, these are Westinghouse modernized by Schindler!!
Iv'e been there before.
It's an express elevator. You'd have to go to floor 99 or 103 and find a different elevator.
Hi new friends here.....
they have different elevators for the business people that work there and they don't want people on the other floors so they have specific elevators
damn i went on that shit today...my ears were poppin like crazy & i was scared