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by masfuerte 443 days ago
10 Rockefeller Plaza was built in 1940 so the escalator could be original.

The London Underground replaced its last wooden escalator only 11 years ago and that was more than 80 years old.

(I should clarify: the treads were wooden but the mechanism was steel.)

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Wynyard Station in Sydney turned their wooden escalator into art, which I would was neat. https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/programs/transport-arts/int...
Like the ones at Macy's 34th Street Herald Sq NYC