Plenty of news here Chez 6000, but maybe more on the way, so let’s leave that for another post and another time, and head to New York and this lovely little documentary about the last Horse Elevators in that city.
These aging behemoths were used to transport – wait for it – horses! to their second floor stabling facilities from the 1860s until the turn of the 20th Century. Because everyone who way anyone had a horse and carriage. The carriages lived downstairs and the horses lived upstairs, but because they are notoriously bad a doing stairs, they were lifted – elevated – in a horse elevator.
But the horse elevators don’t meet building safety codes anymore, and so they are being removed and replaced. And this is the story of one particular horse elevator and its final journey.
It’s an interesting, engaging 12 minute watch.