Cairo’s Antique Elevators, Glorious and Glitchy, Are Scenes of Love and Fear
For some Cairenes, the city’s geriatric lifts are beautiful marvels. Others consider them frustrating and frightening. Everyone has a story.
Link to story: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/world/middleeast/cairo-egypt-elevators.html
A Schindler elevator inside a Zamalek building in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, August 28, 2021. Though some elevators have been replaced with modern machines, dozens, if not hundreds have been going up and down the same buildings for decades, in some cases more than a century. Sima Diab for The New York Times
The art-deco elevator shaft inside a Zamalek apartment building, Saturday August 28. 2021. Though some elevators have been replaced with modern machines, dozens, if not hundreds have been going up and down the same buildings for decades, in some cases more than a century. Sima Diab for The New York Times
The original Schindler elevator plaque inside the elevator in an apartment building in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, August 28, 2021. Though some elevators have been replaced with modern machines, dozens, if not hundreds have been going up and down the same buildings for decades, in some cases more than a century. Sima Diab for The New York Times
An original Stigler elevator inside an Italian gothic style building in downtown Cairo, Saturday August 28, 2021. Stigler was a short lived elevator company established by Auguste Stigler in Milan, Italy in 1860. Though some elevators have been replaced with modern machines, dozens, if not hundreds have been going up and down the same buildings for decades, in some cases more than a century. Sima Diab for The New York Times
The stairwell and elevator shaft of a Neo-Baroque apartment building at 1 Mazloum street in downtown Cairo. Though some elevators have been replaced with modern machines, dozens, if not hundreds have been going up and down the same buildings for decades, in some cases more than a century. Sima Diab for The New York Times
The entrance of the art deco building in downtown Cairo, with the original Otis art deco elevator. T hough some elevators have been replaced with modern machines, dozens, if not hundreds have been going up and down the same buildings for decades, in some cases more than a century. Sima Diab for The New York Times
The Schindler elevator and elevator shaft inside a 1920 Art Deco building in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday August 28, 2021. Though some elevators have been replaced with modern machines, dozens, if not hundreds have been going up and down the same buildings for decades, in some cases more than a century. Sima Diab for The New York Times
Details of the 1920's Art Deco Schindler elevator in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday August 28, 2021. Though some elevators have been replaced with modern machines, dozens, if not hundreds have been going up and down the same buildings for decades, in some cases more than a century. Sima Diab for The New York Times