Posted on 05/23/2021 9:35:12 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The slide and deck opened in 2016 with the idea of making the tower a tourist attraction.
Located nearly 1,000 feet (304.8 meters) above the ground, the Skyslide is a see-through enclosure 45 feet long (13.7 meters) and made of 1.25-inch-thick (3.18 centimeter) glass. Visitors could slide from the 70th floor down to the 69th floor.
Skyspace floors will be turned back into office space.
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Looks like it might require mass quantities of Windex?
Aren’t there any rich folk in that area who can save it?
Some poker pro made a slide from his third story down to the first floor I beleive. Think it was thr player galfond or soemhtinglike that
Skyspace floors will be turned back into VACANT office space./fixed it.
A hunk of steel with everyone's skid marks? Where does one go to get it's reputation back?
If it went from the 70th floor to the 1st floor then it would be a major attraction.
Wrong one.
My “convertible escalator” idea never quite took off. Goes from stairs to slide with the push of a button.
what do you mean wrong one? Phil had a slide in his apartment- which was quite the topic in the poker world for awhile-
a buddy bought some aircraft exit slides from an online bankruptcy auction for cheap and was going to have some fun with them, but a movie production company found him and made him a very generous off for use as props.
Now if the slide went down all 70 floors it would have been interesting.
I don’t know why your “convertible escalator” idea wasn’t popular. It’s really bumpy sliding down an escalator.
One story? Doesn’t sound that exciting. Unless your slide coincided with an earthquake.
“Aren’t there any rich folk in that area who can save it?”
Why? For a little more money they can travel north to Magic Mountain or south to Disneyland or Knott’s Berry Farm and get a whole lot more than this weak thing.
Long Beach has not been the same as years ago as they closed the Pike and made it more of a walking attraction than a riding one like Queen Mary tours. In other words, a carnival.
wy69
—” Unless your slide coincided with an earthquake.’
Need to go to China for that fun ride!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3960345/posts
AND IT IS STILL DOING IT!
And more video from inside!!!!
There is something like that on a small scale at JUMP in Boise.
http://jumpboise.org/spiral-slide
Looks like the whole thing is still shut down due to Wu flu.
Probably too many skid marks.
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