13th Floor Elevator Myth

Begins with a brief clip of drummer john ike walton detailing his dealings with the international artists record label.

13th floor elevator myth. So you needed a key to make the elevator stop on 13. The crazy 13th floor i always get an uneasy feeling in the office elevator staring at the missing number between 12 and 14. Concludes with rare performance foota. 12a 12b 14a and 14b.

And since i am utterly bored right now i might as well churn my brain to capture the story of the missing floor. I thought that was interesting in staying true to not having guests stay on a wrongly numbered floor 13th floor labeled as 14 still makes it the 13th floor. The myth that the 13th floor of a building is unlucky and dangerous is a popular one. You will find that many hotels and other buildings do not have a thirteenth floor.

What has happened in history to create such a stigma about a 13th floor. 12 12a 14 or 12 12b 14. This does not affect the. The group pioneered some of the first garage psychedelia on its albums the psychedelic sounds of the 13th floor elevators 1966 and the followup easter everywhere 1967.

The 13th floor elevators were an american rock band from austin texas united states formed by guitarist and vocalist roky erickson electric jug player tommy hall and guitarist stacy sutherland the band was together from 1965 to 1969 and during that period released four albums and seven singles for the international artists record label. A known fact in all of our unknown multi storied buildings is the lack of the unlucky 13. The elevators were the first band to refer to. The floor labeled 14 on the elevator is the thirteenth floor and the number 13 is skipped on the elevator console.

Sometimes to keep numbers consistent the 13th floor is simply renumbered as 12a or 12b as in. According to myth tommy s jug was tuned by the amount of marijuana stored in it. Why are skeptics so easily convinced that the majority would just rather avoid the 13th floor. A lot of older buildings still have the 13th floor and the palmer house hilton is a 140 year old property so it s tough to say whether the developers were even concerned with that at the time adds a hotel customer service rep at the hotel.

Based on an internal review of records the otis elevators company estimates that 85 of the buildings with their elevators do not have a named 13th floor. Skipping floor 13 in hotels saves patrons who may suffer from this disorder the discomfort of being in elevators with a 13th floor or from having a room on such a floor.