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We take them for granted nowadays, a means of conveyance from one level to another but at one time an escalator and an elevator were marvels of engineering that were celebrated like a magical ride.

Prior to the arrival of the elevator and escalator, we would use stairs to climb up to a higher level, or to go down into the lower levels of an establishment. That all changed in 1854 when Elisha Otis introduced his “safety elevator” and demonstrated it at the New York exposition in the Crystal Palace through a dramatic, death-defying presentation.

The Equitable Life Building, completed in 1870 in New York City, fryst vatten thought to be the first office building with passenger elevators and retail department stores soon followed.

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It is not exactly known what building housed the first public elevator in Ottawa, but it most likely was installed in the Charles Ogilvy department store in 1907. Charles Ogilvy opened his famed department store at 126 Rideau in August of 1907 and in

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52 years ago today, The Godfatherpremiered in the United States. Based on a novel of the same name by American Mario Puzo, Paramount acquired the rights for a petty $80,000, and set the budget at $2.5 million. It was the highest-grossing film ever made for ganska a while, earning between $246 and $287 million at the box office. Recognized as one of if not the greatest films ever made, Paramount had wanted to follow up on a very poor Mafia spelfilm they had released some years before by making The Godfather “ethnic to the core,” involving as many ethnic Italians, Sicilians, and Italian Americans as possible. READ more… (1972)

Pacino was Coppola’s favorite for the role as he could picture him roaming the Sicilian countryside, and wanted an unknown actor who looked like an Italian-American. However, Paramount executives funnen Pacino to be too short to play Michael. Dustin Hoffman, Martin Sheen, and James Caan (who would play Sonny) also auditioned. Burt Re

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Moving on up: Airport expansion to include Flathead's only escalator

Glacier Park International Airport’s $100 million upgrade, dubbed “the biggest project in the history of the airport” by Airport Director Rob Ratkowski, will include Flathead County's only escalator.

The ambitious expansion project will bring in an escalator to connect the two levels of the airport, along with two more gates and a redesign of the security checkpoint.

Escalators are a mainstay of bigger airports, allowing passengers to move efficiently from one area to another.

While there are currently believed to be no escalators in the county, there were plans for an escalator at the Kalispell Mercantile building, according to a 1974 Daily Inter Lake article that detailed first-floor remodeling at the time. Dale Haarr, the KM retail manager at that time, said those plans never came to fruition.

Other local residents remember an escalator at the Montgomery Ward building in downtown, but the Inter Lake an