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i Landmark s * lElevator ToBe SpeedyElevator Services will install the elevator for Landmark Tower, president J. B. Jackson said yesterday.It will be the West’s fastest elevator, Jackson said, with a speed of 1,000 feet a minute. That would take about 20 seconds from ground level to the top of the 31-story building, 297% feet above Paradise Road and ! Convention Center Drive.Construction equipment was being readied at the site yes-j terday. Construction halted on the Space Needle copy in December, 1962, amid a tangle of law suits.Frank Carroll, an official ofthe landlord company, said the first visitors should be able to use the outside elevator early! next year.Several shops and taverns in j the two-story building aroundi the tower’s base haven’t been j officially notified when they’ll :| have to move. That building will! be demolished.A hotel lobby, offices, shops and casino will be built on its si'e around the tower base.
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Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Thu, Aug 25, 1966
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