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39-601: Like Spirou , Velter began his career as a lift attendant at age 16, in the London Ritz Charlton. He later learned the trade as an assistant to American cartoonist Martin Branner on the Winnie Winkle strip from 1934 to 1936. In 1938, Velter created the title character for the launch of a new magazine by Belgian publisher Éditions Dupuis , Le Journal de Spirou . Signed with the pen-name Rob-Vel,

78-844: A Seibu store in Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) Lifestyle Quarter in Kuala Lumpur. SOGO also has been appointed to manage the operations of Mayang Mall in Kuala Terengganu , as well as becoming the mall's anchor tenant. Once located at one of the busiest shopping centres, Raffles City , the Singapore flagship store was closed in 2000 due to the bankruptcy of Sogo Japan. The space has since been occupied by Singapore's Robinsons . Sogo also once anchored Orchard Road's Paragon and DBS Building in Tampines. The DBS Building

117-922: A basement parking for visitors to park their car ( SOGO KL parking rate ) Sogo's second store in Malaysia, located at the Central i-City shopping mall in Padang Jawa , Shah Alam , opened on 11 April 2019, followed by the third store at The Mall - Midvalley Southkey in Johor Bahru , opened on 23 April 2019. The operator, Sogo (KL) Department Store Sdn Bhd, also announced plans to open new stores in Paragon @ KL Northgate in Selayang , and GEM Megamall in Seberang Perai , Penang. It also plans to open

156-765: A few in the United States to employ elevator operators. In 2017, it was estimated that over 50 buildings in New York City used elevator operators, primarily in apartment buildings on the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan , as well as some buildings in Brooklyn . The Stockholm Concert Hall , in Sweden, employs an elevator operator by necessity since there is an entrance to the elevator directly from street level, requiring an employee to be positioned in

195-499: A mall without any MAP-operated department stores, or operated under Daily Foodhall brand. Unlike The Foodhall for upper-class consumers, Daily Foodhall is operated for middle-class consumers. Daily Foodhall opened as part of Sogo on Paris Van Java in 2014, despite located in its extension. Sogo stores that didn't include the supermarket are listed below: Some stores also feature Planet Sports, Kidz Station (both MAP's inhouse brands) and Chatterbox Cafe. A Books Kinokuniya store

234-424: A manually operated elevator . While largely considered an obsolete occupation , elevator operators continue to work in historic installations and fill modern-day niches. Being an effective elevator operator required many skills. Manual elevators were often controlled by a large lever. The elevator operator had to regulate the elevator's speed, which typically required a good sense of timing to consistently stop

273-437: A patron is capable of using, they often employ ride operators for safety and crowd control purposes. Because many jurisdictions have stringent injury liability laws for amusement park operators and the fact that vandalism can be a big problem, some parks do not allow patrons to ride these rides without an employee present. Additionally, if there is a museum at the top of such a ride, the operator will usually give an introduction to

312-1066: A song called Elevator Operator. Sogo Sogo Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社そごう , Kabushiki gaisha Sogō ) is a department store chain that operates an extensive network of branches in Japan. In 2009, it merged with The Seibu Department Stores, Ltd. ( 株式会社西武百貨店 ) to become Sogo & Seibu Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社そごう・西武 ) . It once owned stores in locations as diverse as Beijing in China, Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, Taipei in Taiwan, Jakarta and Surabaya in Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Singapore, Bangkok in Thailand, London in United Kingdom, but most of these international branches are now closed or operated by independent franchisees . Sogo

351-694: A year. In November 2007, the MTA proposed to eliminate the operators' positions, but on December 7, 2007, the MTA announced that it would not remove the remaining elevator operators due to pushback from elected officials and residents from the area. In October 2018, the MTA again proposed removing the elevator operators at the five stations, but this decision was reversed after dissent from the Transport Workers' Union. As of 2022, elevator operators are currently employed in Market Street stations of

390-530: Is a subsidiary of Millennium Retailing (now renamed as Sogo & Seibu ). Since its founding in 1830 Sogo has used as their logo, the family crest ( mon (emblem) ) of a silk shop. The logo consists of a circle with a shape inside that depicts winding the warp on a loom (called ' chikiri ' in Japanese), a nod to the company's origin as a second-hand kimono shop. The word 'Chikiri' in Japanese, also relates to

429-490: Is now Tampines One , while Metro replaces Sogo in Paragon. In Taiwan , Far East Sogo, as a part of Far East Group operates 8 stores. The oldest of these is located at Zhongxiao Fuxing Station in Taipei. In 2006 Pacific Sogo found itself in the midst of a corruption scandal over gift certificates involving the family of Taiwan 's former President Chen Shui-Bian . In October 2006, Wu Shu-chen (the former President's wife)

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468-898: The Eiffel Tower in Paris and the CN Tower in Toronto , employ elevator operators to operate specialized or high-speed elevators, discuss the monument (or the elevator technology) and help direct crowd traffic. There are a few elevator operators working in the New York City Subway system. They are located at five stations: 168th Street , 181st Street at St. Nicholas Avenue and at Fort Washington Avenue , 190th Street , and 191st Street in Washington Heights , upper Manhattan . In these stations, elevators serve as

507-662: The San Francisco Bay Area 's Bay Area Rapid Transit rapid transit system to provide for passenger safety and elevator cleanliness amidst regional problems with homelessness and substance dependence . Theme parks and amusement parks often have observation towers, which employ elevator operators. An example is the Sky Tower at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, California . While these rides may have modern or button-operated elevators that

546-726: The Sogo Club , Sogo Book club , and a new annex building named Beauté by Sogo . The Tsim Sha Tsui branch focuses on designer fashions. Lifestyle International Holdings Limited, the holding company of SOGO, was listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited on 15 April 2004. It is a member of the International Association of department stores . In Indonesia , Sogo is operated by PT Mitra Adiperkasa Tbk (which also operates Sogo's sister department store chain Seibu ) through its subsidiary PT Panen Lestari Indonesia (which

585-453: The salaryman of Japan, the elevator girl has been symbolic of women's roles in society literally and physically moving up and down as women entered the Japanese workforce. Today, few elevator girls remain in department stores, although those which retain them consider the elevator girl an effective marketing strategy. Elevator girls are an example of feminized occupations in the workplace. Prior to 1929, elevator operators were men. In 1929,

624-437: The 1920s, additional terms such as shokoki garu ("up and down controller girl"), hakojo ("box girl"), and erebeta no onna untensyu ("woman elevator driver") were also used to describe this role. However, erebeta girl remains the popular term for this occupation, a staple sight of urban Japan. Sporting tailored uniforms and robotic smiles, elevator girls are trained extensively in polite speaking and posture. In contrast with

663-500: The 1970s, but the operators were retained, though they were reduced in quantity in 2003. In 2004, the number of elevator attendants at the stations was reduced to one per station as a result of budget cuts by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The agency had intended to remove all the attendants, but kept one in each station after many riders protested. The change saved $ 1.2 million

702-516: The Civil Rehabilitation Law on July 12, 2000. It has had to divest itself of unprofitable business lines, as well as valuable assets such as several stores in Japan (e.g., Kokura and Kurosaki) and some overseas stores, including ones in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Taipei. Other overseas Sogo stores survived under independent franchises, through which the Japanese company has also managed to raise capital. In Japan, Sogo

741-941: The Mendelson Liquidation Outlet operates out of an old Delco building that has an old passenger elevator run by an operator. The Fine Arts Building in Chicago ; the Young–Quinlan Building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota ; City Hall in Buffalo, New York ; the Commodore Apartment Building in Louisville, Kentucky ; City Hall in Asheville, North Carolina ; and the Cyr Building in downtown Waterville, Maine are

780-625: The Sogo in Hong Kong including the high-end supermarket Freshmart and Beaute @ Jiuguang (instead of Beaute @ Sogo). The store also brought in some very exclusive designers, a lot of which had their first counter in Mainland China such as Thomas Pink , Jean Paul Gaultier and Vivienne Westwood . Currently, besides Shanghai, Jiuguang also opened in Suzhou and Dailan. The Causeway Bay store on Hong Kong Island opened in 1985. The store itself

819-466: The Ueno Branch of Matsuzakaya department store hired women to operate the elevators in its new facilities. In the same year, Yomiuri Shinbun ran an article calling elevator operation the new occupation of Japanese women, commenting on the experiences of the first elevator girls. Although women in the United States had performed the same duty previously, in Japan the shift to female elevator operators

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858-1042: The act of taking a vow or promise. As of 2018, Sogo Department Store has locations in Yokohama, Chiba, Hiroshima, Omiya, Kawaguchi, Seishin and Tokushima. In August 2020, Sogo closed its stores in Seishin and Tokushima, followed by the closing of the Kawaguchi store in February 2021 due to declining sales. Sogo Department stores in China are operated by Taiwan-based Pacific Sogo . Stores are located in Beijing, three in Shanghai, two in Chengdu , two in Chongqing and one in Dalian , as of August 2007. It appears that all of

897-455: The branches have shut down. In 2004, Jiuguang Department Store in Shanghai was opened as a joint venture between Lifestyle International Holdings of Hong Kong, the owner of Sogo Hong Kong and the state-owned Joinbuy Group of Shanghai. The department store is located in the fashionable Jing'an District adjacent to the Jing'an Temple , on West Nanjing Road. The store operation is a clone of

936-438: The elevator broke. The 2009 film Elevator Nightmare was advertised by comedienne Torii Miyuki watching the film in an elevator with three professional elevator girls. Karl Greenfeld 's 1995 expose of Japanese culture Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation , featured a fictional story of an elevator girl who works the elevator by day and engages in drugs and risky sex by night. Courtney Barnett wrote

975-560: The elevator level with each floor. In addition to their training in operation and safety, department stores later combined the role of operator with greeter and tour guide , announcing product departments, floor by floor, and occasionally mentioning special offers. With the advent of user-operated elevators such as those utilizing push buttons to select the desired floor, few elevator operators remain. A few older buildings still maintain working manually operated elevators and thus elevator operators may be employed to run them. In Dayton, Ohio ,

1014-768: The elevator to inspect tickets. In more modern buildings, elevator operators are still occasionally encountered. For example, they are commonly seen in Japanese department stores such as Sogo and Mitsukoshi in Japan and Taiwan , as well as high speed elevators in skyscrapers, as seen in Taipei 101 , and at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts . Some monuments, such as the Space Needle in Seattle ,

1053-478: The help of Lifestyle International in 2004. Sogo Hong Kong Co. Ltd, the Sogo franchisee, now operates one additional store in Tsim Sha Tsui , which opened on September 30, 2005, marking the 25th anniversary of Sogo in Hong Kong. The Causeway Bay store added a large extension, which opened on November 22, 1993. The enlarged store carries items in all product categories across the 15-story building. It includes

1092-788: The introduction of the Sogo Foodhall as a modern supermarket concept, before renaming it into The Foodhall Gourmet as Sogo Plaza Indonesia closed down. The first new concept store opened in 2005 in conjunction with the opening of its Pondok Indah Mall branch, and eventually evolved into The Foodhall today. The supermarket that operated as part of Sogo are located below. The Foodhall is also located in Senayan City (as part of now closed Debenhams department store), Grand Indonesia (as part of Seibu department store), and Central Park's extension, Neo Soho Mall. Other branches of The Foodhall are either standalone, operating independently inside

1131-565: The newspaper comic M. Subito , but he was never able to reach the broad popularity of Spirou again. This profile of a cartoonist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Elevator operator An elevator operator ( North American English ), liftman (in Commonwealth English , usually lift attendant ), or lift girl (in British English ), is a person specifically employed to operate

1170-412: The purpose and contents of the museum and other promotional messages about the park. Manual elevator operators can be employed in the construction of multi-storied buildings, either using temporary exterior hoists or traditional elevators that are still being installed. Elevator girl , shorted to erega , describes the occupation of women who operate elevators in Japan. When the role became common in

1209-536: The reserved, controlled role of the elevator girl at work with the unknown, potentially scandalous role that the woman plays in her personal life. A pornographic film featuring Shoji Miyuki, Going Up: I am an Elevator Girl , played off this contrast, telling the story of a demure elevator girl who is secretly a nymphomaniac engaging in sexual activities in the elevator. Popular anime series Crayon Shin Chan featured an elevator girl who became trapped in her elevator when

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1248-458: The sole or primary means of non-emergency access. The elevator attendants currently serve as a way to reassure passengers as the elevators are the only entrance to the platforms, and passengers often wait for the elevators with an attendant. The attendants at the five stations are primarily maintenance and cleaning workers who suffered injuries that made it hard for them to continue doing their original jobs. The elevators were made automated during

1287-552: The story was titled Groom au Moustic–hôtel ( Bellboy at the Hotel Mosquito , named after another of Dupuis magazines). Later the same year, he created Spirou's inseparable companion, the squirrel Spip , for the story L’héritage . When Velter was drafted and wounded in 1940, his wife Davine (Blanche Dumoulin) took over the strip for a while. After the war, Velter published a number of strips, including Le Père Pictou , Les Tribulations du Chien Petto , Bibor et Tribar and

1326-721: Was acquired by Mitra Adiperkasa in 2003). The first Indonesia Sogo store was opened in 1990 at Plaza Indonesia . The store was later closed in February 2006 due to the renovation of the shopping mall. The Sogo flagship store and management office were moved to Plaza Senayan , currently the largest store with six levels. All stores are located in high-end shopping malls in Indonesia, listed below. PT. Mitra Adiperkasa Tbk., commonly known as MAP, also operated supermarket The Foodhall, previously known as Sogo Supermarket. The Sogo Supermarket brand, introduced in Plaza Indonesia since its opening in 1990, has been phased out progressively with

1365-575: Was cleared by court of accepting vouchers from Pacific Sogo in return for her influence. Due to its ownership, Pacific Sogo brand was renamed into Far East Sogo in 2016, while the corporate name is still named Pacific SOGO Department Stores Co., Ltd. The company targeted Far East Sogo for middle-up to high-end customers, alongside its flagship brand, Far Eastern Department Stores, targeted for low-middle and middle customers, and The Mall, targeted for high-end customers. Kuang San Sogo, located in Taichung,

1404-550: Was colloquially referred as "Jumbo Sogo" after its subsequent expansion. Following Sogo Group's collapse and bankruptcy in Japan after the Asian financial crisis , Sogo Hong Kong, including the 40,500-square-meter retail property located in Causeway Bay, was sold for US$ 453.6 million to two local billionaires, Thomas Lau of Chinese Estates and Henry Cheng of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises . The new owners took Sogo public with

1443-499: Was founded in 1830 in Osaka by Ihei Sogō as a retailer of used kimono . In July 2000, the company faced financial troubles caused by the unstable real estate investment policy of the former chairman, Hiroo Mizushima, and the collapse of Japanese real estate prices since the mid-1980s. The group collapsed under a debt mountain of US$ 17 billion, owed principally to Industrial Bank of Japan . Sogo applied to Osaka District Court under

1482-422: Was remarkable. At first, female elevator operators had to perform the same functional tasks as male operators, operating levers and closing elevator doors. As elevators became automated, the role shifted to greeting customers, advertising sales to customers, and making announcements. Elevator girls appear in numerous works of literature and film. A key storytelling tool using the elevator girl has been to juxtapose

1521-525: Was used to be located in the upper level of Sogo Plaza Senayan as its Indonesian flagship store, but closed on April 1, 2021. SOGO presently has three stores in Malaysia. The first store, known as KL SOGO, is located along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman in downtown Kuala Lumpur . Connected to the Bandaraya LRT station by a link bridge, it sits on the site formerly occupied by Suleiman Courts . The SOGO store commenced business on 18 January 1994. It has

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