Like doormen, elevator operators tend to know a lot of about a building—and its residents. Being an elevator operator might seem a simple matter of up and down, but consider, for a moment, the morning ...

For most of their half-day shifts, Bill Dreisbach and Bob Johnson sit in a hot, virtually empty office on the virtually empty third floor of downtown Allentown’s Farr Building, waiting for a buzzer to ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - A nearly century-old building shuttered its manual elevators Tuesday with plans to replace them with automatic ones, marking the end of Sioux City’s era of elevator operators.