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Comment by jmclnx | Hacker News Reader

Very cool.

As a kid in Boston, a couple of Subway Stops and an interesting Escalator. They where a bit wider then this one, but had wooden "stairs". But the "stairs" were slanted downward. When wet, you had to be careful. I wish I had taken pictures of them.

They were ripped out in the 70s. I wish they had kept one of them as an historical oddity.

FWIW I have not been there for a while, maybe one I was not aware of still exists :)

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https://i.imgur.com/N0oMono.gif (I don't echo Calvin's sentiment, your comment just lined up so nicely with my memory of this comic that I had to share it)

Funny, and really, my comment had no point :)

There are still some wooden escalators inside the flagship Macy's store in Herald Square (Manhattan).

I have memories of a similar escalator, probably at or near Downtown Crossing.

I don't remember it being made of wood, but I remember it being narrow and slanted downwards and kind of scary. Come to think of it, the station in general was very run down and a bit frightening to ~5yo me.

This would have been in the early to mid eighties.

There were wooden stairs at the old flagship G. Fox & Co department store in Hartford CT. I don't recall them being slanted, though.

Woah. The first comment gave me a wave of nostalgia I couldn't place. This must have been it. Couldn't have been older than 4 or 5 last time I was in G Fox.

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