Just Above Sunset
May 8, 2005 - More from Left Bank Lens













Home | Question Time | Something Is Up | Connecting Dots | Stay Away | Overload | Our Man in Paris | WLJ Weekly | Book Wrangler | Cobras | The Edge of the Pacific | The Surreal Beach | On Location | Botanicals | Quotes





I do recommend you visit the weekly photo magazine Left Bank Lens from Paris.  The photographer, Don Smith, has been trading email with me once more, and we’ve been chatting this week about something I saw on my fist trip to Paris many, many years ago.  And he sends along photographs of something really cool.

 

I'm walking around, shooting like I always do when I see a moving crew working away so I struck up a conversation with them.  They were just fine with me taking photos of them working and, when the owner came out, I was invited upstairs to take a few more shots.  Why people think the French are cold, I'll never know.

 

With the small winding staircases in France, there exists a great system to get someone moved into or out of their apartment.  Can you imagine moving an armoire up four stories in a small, winding staircase?

 

The solution is a combination of a crane and a lift, it can be parked in almost any space and some can reach as high as 13 stories.  They just avoid the staircase and bring things up the outside of the building and then through the window.

Photo Actual Size ...

Photo Actual Size ...

Photo Actual Size ...

Photo Actual Size ...

You've all seen the standard Parisian "window grill" that keeps a three-year-old from falling out the window.  This last shot shows Pascal unlocking a panel that will go over that iron grill.  With that last platform going over the window "grill", moving furniture in is still tough work, but it's much easier.
 
 

Photo Actual Size ,,,















Text and Photos Copyright © 2005 – Don Smith, All Rights Reserved
















 
 
 
 

Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 - Alan M. Pavlik
 
_______________________________________________
The inclusion of any text from others is quotation
for the purpose of illustration and commentary,
as permitted by the fair use doctrine of U.S. copyright law. 
See the Details page for the relevant citation.

This issue updated and published on...

Paris readers add nine hours....























Visitors:

________