Infiltration

missnabi location: Victoria, Canada Gender: Female \|	Under the Patch < on 8/24/2005 10:02 PM >

	In the Patch on Yates street a friend of mine doing renovations found two deep shafts running down the back of the building (from the top floor into the basement). Possible elevator shafts? They are wooden sided, with a plain metal gate at the bottom of one of the shafts. Anyone know what they are or when they were from? Someone I know speculates they were cargo elevators closed after the big earthquake mid-century. I'd love some info on them. Sine Grano Salis

KublaKhan location: Edinburgh, Scotland With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie. \|	Re: Under the Patch <Reply # 1 on 8/24/2005 10:16 PM >

	Interesting. Cargo elevators are possible. The purple glass tile thingies you see here and there downtown are (were) part of a basement system that extended outside the building proper, allowing for cargo to be lowered from sidewalk level down into the basement of the respective buildings. I've heard also that many of these extended basement thingies were connected...the tunnel thing I keep hearing about... The city filled most of these up, though some are still there...most were closed off from the buildings and were back-filled. "The truth is knowable. But probably not, ever, incontrovertible." --Don DeLillo PICS