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The elevators

posted 14 years ago by kevfannc
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My wife and I recently went on a one-week vacation to San Francisco. We visited the Hyatt Embarcadero on Drumm to see the elevators in person.

We made a couple of quick videos and posted them on our facebook pages. What I noticed was the elevators are still EXACTLY the same while the lobby has been redesigned. The interior of the elevators have been upgraded as well. Unfortunately you can't go up to the 17th floor unless you are a guest and have a keycard. The elevator will only go as high as the 7th floor without a keycard.

I put the videos on youtube, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCMBkOUQkw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFN7zxe_53E

Yeah my camera work is shoddy which is why I am not a filmmaker. :)

kfmg

[–] shandy8 12 years ago

My family went there in the seventies and I rode that elevator over and over because that's where they filmed the lobby scenes from 'The Towering Inferno' (my favorite movie at the time).

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[–] vpilutis 11 years ago

This is also the same hotel Jack the Ripper stays in "Time After Time"

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[–] auc476 10 years ago

I thought the elevator scene was filmed at the Bonaventure in LA --especially since we saw it being filmed...