Its major function is housing the mechanisms for the passenger elevators.
A passenger elevator is designed to move people between a building's floors.
As designed in 1926, the Drake had three passenger elevators.
It couldn't have been very long, for the passenger elevator had gone up when the service car reached the ground floor.
Not so many years ago, no passenger elevator moved without an operator.
There are only four passenger elevators in the 19-story building.
Elevators have been added over time, including the island's first passenger elevator in 1950.
So the point was not to take the passenger elevator.
At the time, it was the only two story motel with a passenger elevator.
As I came down the corridor he was ahead of me going toward the passenger elevator.