Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 18, 2016
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Transcript:
Old-school! Built in 1901, Macy's Harold Square still transports customers from floor to floor using wooden escalators! And unused Walt Disney World runway plays When You Wish Upon A Star when driven over at 45 miles per hour! Luca Iaconi-Stewart spent seven years building a replica Air India Boeing 777 using only manila folders!
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Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
One “Calvin and Hobbes” strip had C’s father talking to C about wooden escalators. Was he talking about Macy’s?
cst7795 about 8 years ago
I remember those escalators back in the 80’s when I was a kid and they are still there. They must be of good quality running for over a century! LOL
Dean about 8 years ago
Back in the 70s I recall seeing a wooden escalator in the Boston subway.
It was a narrow one person wide and very scary looking.
Chad Cheetah about 8 years ago
Lad when you drive to over 88, you’ll go back in time
tom_wright about 8 years ago
Manila Folders? Isn’t that the ex-NBA Philippine basketball team?
aimlesscruzr about 8 years ago
Ok, the musical runway is pretty cool. There are plenty of musical roads around, but the abandoned runway at Disney World plays the song for planes taking off and landing…
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/singing-runway-at-the-abandoned-disney-world-airport
comixbomix about 8 years ago
Well, it’s a short flight, from India to Manila, after all…
bookworm0812 about 8 years ago
Ummmm…..if the Disney runway is unused, how do you know it plays “When You Wish Upon A Star?” Wouldn’t you have to use it to know that?
SlimeyDude101 about 8 years ago
wow nice school I want to go there
MrBlowhard2u about 8 years ago
On November 18, 1987 the Kings Cross underground station wooden escalator in London caught fire and the resulting fire killed over 30 people. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLmTWjng7Ug#t=1310.073917