Paternoster: Eastern Europe’s ’Elevator of Death’

Jukin Media Verified (Original) * For licensing / permission to use: Contact: licensing@ I take a ride on a paternoster, an old school type of elevator consisting of a series of constantly moving “shelves“ with open fronts. Passengers just step on and off the revolving “shelves“ as they wish. A dozen or so are still in use in Prague -- quite a few, it turns out, throughout Europe. The one I rode in is in the Lucerna Pasaz in central Prague. According to Wikipedia, five people have died in pat