Elevator Pulley

I really enjoy/appreciate your photos of old equipment like this. With your eye for these kind of photos, I wish you lived in Nevada or No.Cal., where there are hundreds of abandoned mines and ore mills that you could sneak around with your camera. In fact, there is even a ghost area (now only a crossroad) named Motts just south of Carson City and the town of Genoa. Relatives?

"You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse"

..... pb

Here in Northern California, the majority of the mines are now in either State Parks, or on Private Property. You can still purchase a home here that has mineral rights to the mine that is on that land, prohibiting you from Commercial Mining, but not from Private Mining, as your home insurance will now have to cover you if you put yourself in a hole in the ground.
Many of the old buildings that would be closed in every other city are still in business, and the owners work to preserve the history of the buildings here. So much so that a favorite coffee shop of Serrena's and mine, has had to start closing at 5pm. because they were having problems with vandalism of the historic site that it is in.
The building is an old Soda Works. On the first floor of the building is a mine shaft, that goes back about 200 feet. Because of the constant temperature in the mine shaft it was once used as an Ice House.
I promise to not tell you about the graffitti in there, or about how the kids think it is perfectly okay to kick the brick walls until mortar falls out and they now have a growing hole. To think this building isn't even vacant...

Lyric, thanks for sharing your memories. My grandmother lived in Northern California and I used to visit a covered bridge. That is what first got me interested in UE.

When I was younger we used to be able to legally drive our regular cars over the covered bridge. It was quite an experience.

i love this pic elevators are my most favorite pice of mechanicle equitment....wow that is kinda nerdy geeky or somthing else i gess

i wanna ask about the pulley radius ?

who was the first persn that made an elevator ?And when was it made ?Why was it built ?what did they think of making that idea ? And who thought of that idea ? And what pulley system was it made out of?Where was it made ? Why was it made? How did it make it ?