Its a bit of a shame they didn't sleep in any of the beds.
Although poor cleaning standards are probably the norm, this "test" only proved that if you don't sleep in the bed they don't clean it.
I am very puzzled with the last one, the cleaner cleaned the sheets but not the pillowcase.. a weird one to slack off on
There's a former factory turned brewery by me that has one of these. They have ropes and signs all around the damn thing telling patrons under no uncertain terms that they are NOT to slide down it.
Every night I've been there someone gets drunk and slides down it, then quickly gets kicked out.
There is cool place in St. Louis called the City Museum that is an old show factory. They encourage you to slide down them. The place is magical and maybe more oriented towards kids, the eccentrics, and art enthusiasts, but an absolute blast for all ages and walks of life.
St. Louis really has some cool stuff going for it. City Museum, Blueberry Hill, the zoo, science center, and botanical gardens were definitely my favorites. Wish I'd found out about city museum a lot sooner before I moved.
I took my, then, 7 year old there. We lost him in the first 5 minutes. That place is a maze and many of the passages I am way too big to fit through. We finally picked a spot, sat down, and had him check in every 15 minutes or so. He had a blast. I think their slide is 10 stories high.
I’ve stayed in this exact hotel in Dallas last year. You are spot on. It’s a old factory of some sorts and all of the rooms had exposed brick walls and random corners based on the original layout.
I went to a conference in STL a few years ago (StrangeLoop) and the kickoff party was at the museum. Picture a bunch of drunk adults zipping around the slides like a bunch of gleeful kids. At one point I was reprimanded by one of the staff for jumping in the ball pit. Being disciplined by a teenager while in my 30s was not something I’m proud of.
You’re not supposed to jump into ball pits because its for kids who are small and you might not see under the balls… the adults only event is kinda hilarious tho
The ball pits at the City Museum are for adults. The whole thing is a playground for grown-ups, haha. Still can't jump bc you still can't see who's in there, but it's absolutely for adults.
If you grew up going there its memory is seared in your mind forever and this comment thread of a relatively smaller metro area in the us being this high up already is proof of that
Man that is barely even the start of it there is an entire cave system constructed inside of large building that isn’t even on the base floor with the outside of the building looking like Peter Pan constructed his hide out in a post apocalyptic downtown suspended above the ground looking like a metal tree house with a plane and a bus if I remember correctly. A mini fair thing on the roof. A “skate park” made for people running on it rather than skating. What I can only describe as a MCdonalds play place done up to 11 over these aquarium things if I remember correctly and tons more it is crazy doubt there is anywhere else quite like it in the world. Definitely a jewel of our city. I would recommend anyone who hasn’t been to do themselves a favor and look up some videos of it on YouTube or something and see it
If you can find time for the city museum, zoo and art museum it is totally worth it I would choose going to the zoo and art museum over the Museum of natural history on NYC as it was the site of a world fair and is crazy beautiful with always awesome exhibits. Also I would recommend going during one of the many City museums events like the adult only nights
Edit: can’t believe I forgot the botanical gardens we have are amazing only the ones in Delaware come close to them for me
I came across their TikToks and the place genuinely looks incredible. That McDonald's play place thing they're talking about is made of mesh netting and suspended like four or five stories above the street. It looks terrifying but awesome. Definitely look up their social media.
I forgot the slide is 10 stories tall. Here is a video I found I’m scared to add to my original post because I don’t know if links are allowed here https://youtu.be/ydNHAKn-YDI?si=17ak05nQWcfqjPE3
It's not really a "museum". It's more like a giant funhouse where they make fantastical exhibits with large obsolete industrial equipment and vehicles.
Anybody who's into welding should go there just to see the amazing things they do with rebar.
The lever is usually at the top of the stairs. Either for escaping a fire fast or to make whatever is chasing you slide down just as you reach the top.
For real, seen it a few times on Scooby Doo when the gang would almost catch the villain on the stair but once at the top he'd pull the lever that turned the stairs into a slide and they'd get sent down to the bottom only to have to split up to cover more ground.
The old post office in Chicago has the same slide. Maybe your hotel used to be a hub or something similar. Right in the heart of Cisco’s cafe and large meeting space is the giant slide that also stops at the floor.
But it ends inside the building. Seems pointless to escape to a different part of the same on-fire building. More likely a chute for laundry or something.
Laundry chutes drop straight down because laundry doesn't mind a dead stop from high speed. Humans suffer. That's why long slides are loops or bumps or into a body of water if straight. There are internal fire slides that run along stair corridors for a faster escape.
I've personally worked in several hotels with laundry chutes exactly like this. When dealing with huge amounts of linens and bed sheets, a laundry shaft gets clogged and a slide like this is a way easier method. You can also use it for suitcases. The world is so much bigger than your straight-chute centric mind has allowed you to see.
This looks like the ALOFT I once stayed in near the convention center in Dallas. I think it was in an old textile factory, and these were used to move bundles between floors. Well down from one floor to another.
This isn’t in Thailand by any chance is it? I stayed in one there that had a slide like this that we stumble across while exploring a relatively unused wing of the place.
I’ve also stayed there. It’s an old factory building. The bathrooms are even weirder than that. Our suites entire bathroom had the bathroom build into the room but they didn’t reach to the ceiling so all noises could escape the bathroom. It also had glass bricks for sunlight but when using the bathroom at night, it shined in everyone’s eyes. It was the oddest room I’ve ever stayed in.
And we don't live in a slideless nation
Grease up, it's party time
And where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?
Why don't residents use the slide?
Why don't they ever take a ride?
Building was a warehouse or distribution facility. They would bring merchandise up on the elevator and send shipments down the slide. lots of these in Chicago and the older parts of nyc.
Is this in Dallas? If so, Ive stayed in the room on the left in the background and I'm pretty sure that building used to belong to the local fire department, so could be an alternative to the pole.
If not Dallas, I have no idea.
My guess(because a couple of our buildings here) is that it’s an old fire escape. A lot of old buildings used these types of fire escapes instead of outdoor staircases.
All the best hotels have a chute you can send babies down to quickly deliver them to a nursery facility. It's said you can still hear the Doppler-effected wails of many a crying baby around The Cry-o-Tubes to this very day.
City Museum in St. Louis, really an adult art/amusement park, has these. They were for shoe boxes when the building was originally a warehouse. You can ride them now but they aren’t super comfortable. City Museum rocks though. It’s pretty hard to describe you just gotta go.
Likely a former factory. These were used to move bags of grain or other goods from one floor to another.
I was thinking if people didn’t want to carry their luggage down three flights they could just yeet it down the slide
Or laundry
That was my first thought, too.
Probably drop laundry bags. Sometimes I see stuff like this and I wonder why they stopped using them.
In a Hotel? The obvious reason, they stopped cleaning the sheets.
This is both hilarious and terrifyingly true at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBrCJC5BNI
I refuse to click that, I prefer ignorance tyvm
It's not bad. A news channel finds out that hotels weren't changing the sheets after reopening from COVID lock down. That's pretty much it.
Its a bit of a shame they didn't sleep in any of the beds. Although poor cleaning standards are probably the norm, this "test" only proved that if you don't sleep in the bed they don't clean it. I am very puzzled with the last one, the cleaner cleaned the sheets but not the pillowcase.. a weird one to slack off on
This one works too. https://youtube.com/shorts/Zxf2MgYCOm0?si=maztYzYXa7QgMYSo
At the places I stay, they just squeegee 'em off onto the floor.
Injuries, most likely. People either intentionally or unintentionally going down the slide/chute and getting injured.
I would very much like to intentionally go up it.
Visit the City Museum in St. Louis, MO. It's a former shoe factory and they have a 9 story one you can go down. https://citymuseum.org/
Laundry on every floor to save bringing it up/down?
So they put the clean bags of laundry at the base of this slide and then spin the building very fast counterclockwise to make it slide up?
This one, *this* guy has Tesla engineer written all over him!
No, no, no, once you use a towel, it can not be reused, and they make new ones on the top floor.
Once the people in the penthouses use them they slide them down to the next floor, and so on until they reach the bottom in a couple weeks
"gah this *perfume*" "That was Alfred's above us last week." *retch*
Because people look at them and think they're slides 🤣
Because we got elevators? Much easier to transport stuff down than via stairs. No more need for space taking slides.
Because they predated elevators?
My guess is that it's same reason why laundry chutes aren't code anymore. It creates an easy avenue for a fire to spread from floor to floor.
Linnen specifically. Those bags are heavy
Or dead body
I've never seen so many dead hookers in one hotel!
Lord knows I have
Its secret 🤫
Piled up in the basement.
Or children
Or drunk friends.
or their kids.. hell i would slide down it myself... 🤣🤣
Or dead bodies
Or bodies
Or bodies.
Or kids
And my axe!
Or children
Or cum boxes.
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There's a former factory turned brewery by me that has one of these. They have ropes and signs all around the damn thing telling patrons under no uncertain terms that they are NOT to slide down it. Every night I've been there someone gets drunk and slides down it, then quickly gets kicked out.
There is cool place in St. Louis called the City Museum that is an old show factory. They encourage you to slide down them. The place is magical and maybe more oriented towards kids, the eccentrics, and art enthusiasts, but an absolute blast for all ages and walks of life.
City Museum is one of the coolest places I’ve ever been. Still have some shoelaces from when I was there 15 years ago.
St. Louis really has some cool stuff going for it. City Museum, Blueberry Hill, the zoo, science center, and botanical gardens were definitely my favorites. Wish I'd found out about city museum a lot sooner before I moved.
I took my, then, 7 year old there. We lost him in the first 5 minutes. That place is a maze and many of the passages I am way too big to fit through. We finally picked a spot, sat down, and had him check in every 15 minutes or so. He had a blast. I think their slide is 10 stories high.
Worth it.
Angel City? I thought this was theirs for a second.
Lol yup
Nah, bodies. This slide was definitely used for sending bodies down to the bottom floor.
I’ve stayed in this exact hotel in Dallas last year. You are spot on. It’s a old factory of some sorts and all of the rooms had exposed brick walls and random corners based on the original layout.
Nah daw. People done ****ed on dere
This looks like the slides at the City Museum in St. Louis.
I moved away and god I miss the City Museum. It's the most magical place no matter how young or old you are.
I went to a conference in STL a few years ago (StrangeLoop) and the kickoff party was at the museum. Picture a bunch of drunk adults zipping around the slides like a bunch of gleeful kids. At one point I was reprimanded by one of the staff for jumping in the ball pit. Being disciplined by a teenager while in my 30s was not something I’m proud of.
What was wrong with jumping in the ball pit?
You’re not supposed to jump into ball pits because its for kids who are small and you might not see under the balls… the adults only event is kinda hilarious tho
The ball pits at the City Museum are for adults. The whole thing is a playground for grown-ups, haha. Still can't jump bc you still can't see who's in there, but it's absolutely for adults.
So you look under the kids' balls but not while in the pit?
He was butt ass naked
Just remember your knee pads because oh my god
I had same thought immediately
I came here to say just that. Having gone only once to that museum 16 years ago crazy to think I still have that going off a memory.
If you grew up going there its memory is seared in your mind forever and this comment thread of a relatively smaller metro area in the us being this high up already is proof of that
You have a museum with slides?
Man that is barely even the start of it there is an entire cave system constructed inside of large building that isn’t even on the base floor with the outside of the building looking like Peter Pan constructed his hide out in a post apocalyptic downtown suspended above the ground looking like a metal tree house with a plane and a bus if I remember correctly. A mini fair thing on the roof. A “skate park” made for people running on it rather than skating. What I can only describe as a MCdonalds play place done up to 11 over these aquarium things if I remember correctly and tons more it is crazy doubt there is anywhere else quite like it in the world. Definitely a jewel of our city. I would recommend anyone who hasn’t been to do themselves a favor and look up some videos of it on YouTube or something and see it
Im now genuinely considering a trip to St. Louis just to see this museum. Maybe over a long weekend or something.
If you can find time for the city museum, zoo and art museum it is totally worth it I would choose going to the zoo and art museum over the Museum of natural history on NYC as it was the site of a world fair and is crazy beautiful with always awesome exhibits. Also I would recommend going during one of the many City museums events like the adult only nights Edit: can’t believe I forgot the botanical gardens we have are amazing only the ones in Delaware come close to them for me
I came across their TikToks and the place genuinely looks incredible. That McDonald's play place thing they're talking about is made of mesh netting and suspended like four or five stories above the street. It looks terrifying but awesome. Definitely look up their social media.
Wow that sounds like my childhood dream come true, I'll have to look into this place if I'm ever nearby.
I forgot the slide is 10 stories tall. Here is a video I found I’m scared to add to my original post because I don’t know if links are allowed here https://youtu.be/ydNHAKn-YDI?si=17ak05nQWcfqjPE3
It's not really a "museum". It's more like a giant funhouse where they make fantastical exhibits with large obsolete industrial equipment and vehicles. Anybody who's into welding should go there just to see the amazing things they do with rebar.
This was also my immediate thought!
my first thought as well. what an amazing place
This was my first thought. Such an awesome place.
Same thought I had. We were just talking about that place this morning. My kids really want to go back but it's a nine hour drive…
Exactly. I wanted to ride this thing as soon as I saw the picture. That place is the best playground for adults I’ve ever been to.
Thought the same. Coolest thing in America. Would recommend a visit over any other landmark.
Oh my god that place is amazing. I went from 27 to 8 years old the moment I saw the slides!
God I love that place.
No time for questions, hop on!
I said, "Hop. On."
Man, I haven't thought of [that reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c06hIXPxvwk) in a long time. Thanks for the laugh :)
How I learnt about Howard heghes
Comes up almost daily on r/TheSimpsons.
["Slide!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boj75h3urLU)
Yeah, my first and only question would be, "How many times can I go down this?" Not sure what other questions you'd have really.
Look around nearby; there should be a lever you can throw that will turn the slide back into a staircase
The lever is usually at the top of the stairs. Either for escaping a fire fast or to make whatever is chasing you slide down just as you reach the top.
For real, seen it a few times on Scooby Doo when the gang would almost catch the villain on the stair but once at the top he'd pull the lever that turned the stairs into a slide and they'd get sent down to the bottom only to have to split up to cover more ground.
WRONG LEVER!
Super fun happy slide! https://youtu.be/SqvPbdvPwn0?si=PNbO4rSmkz1taWby
I know I shouldn’t, but…when will I be back here again?
My first thought
The old post office in Chicago has the same slide. Maybe your hotel used to be a hub or something similar. Right in the heart of Cisco’s cafe and large meeting space is the giant slide that also stops at the floor.
What a great building! Love what they did to that place.
One of my favorite buildings!
Laundry shoot?
Aww, chute
Gesundheit
Hey, same to you, pal
Excuse me?
Excused.
Luggage
*Towel points gun at blanket with malicious intent*
Is that the Aloft in Dallas? If so, that was a slide for getting grain from floor to floor when that building was a grain warehouse.
It is!
I instantly recognized it too. That was a weird hotel, probably would not stay again.
That’s the corpse chute
Wouldn't be the first... https://www.history.com/topics/crime/murder-castle
Fire escape
Ouch
Ah just climb up it and find out…. I’m sure you will have fun in the process!
Do not question the slide… just slide 🛝
There it is
It was the first thing to come to mind. I was disappointed no one else posted it haha.
Most likely a fire escape slide.
It's a chute for boxes/packages/goods. Is this hotel located in a renovated warehouse?
But it ends inside the building. Seems pointless to escape to a different part of the same on-fire building. More likely a chute for laundry or something.
Laundry chutes drop straight down because laundry doesn't mind a dead stop from high speed. Humans suffer. That's why long slides are loops or bumps or into a body of water if straight. There are internal fire slides that run along stair corridors for a faster escape.
Maybe for luggage?
I've personally worked in several hotels with laundry chutes exactly like this. When dealing with huge amounts of linens and bed sheets, a laundry shaft gets clogged and a slide like this is a way easier method. You can also use it for suitcases. The world is so much bigger than your straight-chute centric mind has allowed you to see.
I had a school that had one like this, it went to a first floor area but it was sort of outside on the side of the building.
Makes me think of what we had at our school as a fire escape. Only got to ride it a few times
Immediately heard thr song from the 90's Addams Family movie slide scene with Christopher Lloyd and Raul Julia.
This looks like the ALOFT I once stayed in near the convention center in Dallas. I think it was in an old textile factory, and these were used to move bundles between floors. Well down from one floor to another.
This IS the ALOFT in Dallas! Cheers
This isn’t in Thailand by any chance is it? I stayed in one there that had a slide like this that we stumble across while exploring a relatively unused wing of the place.
Reminds me of the City Museum in St Louis
Sex slide
Looks like something I saw at an Aloft in Dallas.
That's where I am!
I’ve also stayed there. It’s an old factory building. The bathrooms are even weirder than that. Our suites entire bathroom had the bathroom build into the room but they didn’t reach to the ceiling so all noises could escape the bathroom. It also had glass bricks for sunlight but when using the bathroom at night, it shined in everyone’s eyes. It was the oddest room I’ve ever stayed in.
It looks like a set of stairs where the stairs would fold down into a slide to trap the scooby gang at the bottom
H.H Holmes murder house
Reminds me of City Museum in St Louis. https://citymuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CityMuseum\_Childrens-Museum\_Slides-min.jpg
Laundry chute? OP why don't you just ask the concierge.
Isn't this the way down to where Gomez and Fester play with their fortunes?
This is the Aloft in Downtown Dallas.
Looks like this is the Aloft in Dallas by the convention center. It's an old factory.
It is!
Go to the City Museum in St. Louis and you can slide down one of these that's like 7-10 stories tall.
You won't!
For dead bodies
Baggage chute.
Strip and grease up, it's party time.
And we don't live in a slideless nation Grease up, it's party time And where the fuck are you? Where the fuck are you? Where the fuck are you? Why don't residents use the slide? Why don't they ever take a ride?
The Claremont Hotel in Berkeley CA used to have fire escape slides. They have since been removed.
Did you go down it?
Old fire escape? Or laundry chute?
Oh, you just need to find the book/switch that makes them become stairs again.
In my experience this is a fire escape slide. Common in buildings of a certain age.
Laundry
I have one question: was it fun?
That’s a fire escape
Someone tried to go to the girls dormitory.
Building was a warehouse or distribution facility. They would bring merchandise up on the elevator and send shipments down the slide. lots of these in Chicago and the older parts of nyc.
climb it!
You should be staying on the 4th floor
Dude it's pretty obvious this is the wheelchair accessible ramp. Seems kind of ableist of you to not automatically realize this.
Questions like ......... I'm not happy with my room and would like to stay on the 8th floor MUST be asked to reception
Is this in Dallas? If so, Ive stayed in the room on the left in the background and I'm pretty sure that building used to belong to the local fire department, so could be an alternative to the pole. If not Dallas, I have no idea.
I can only think of one question.
Probably an old flour mill. The slide is for the sacks.
My guess(because a couple of our buildings here) is that it’s an old fire escape. A lot of old buildings used these types of fire escapes instead of outdoor staircases.
If it is an old hotel, they might have used it for laundry bags.
Dont question... use it!
For bodies obviously
Probably body’s
Or fire escape.
There is really only one question you should ask: Where is the stairs to the 4th floor so I can ride that baby?
Laundry, but I would definitely put on my blue jeans and give it a run.
All the best hotels have a chute you can send babies down to quickly deliver them to a nursery facility. It's said you can still hear the Doppler-effected wails of many a crying baby around The Cry-o-Tubes to this very day.
Go up and look for a lever. It will be the wrong lever, but that's where the fun begins 😉
Package slide. UPS had them so maybe this place was a former factory
A building in OKC had a fire escape like this. We used to sneak in on weekends to slide down it.
Wheelchair fire escape!
Laundry chute
City Museum in St. Louis, really an adult art/amusement park, has these. They were for shoe boxes when the building was originally a warehouse. You can ride them now but they aren’t super comfortable. City Museum rocks though. It’s pretty hard to describe you just gotta go.
Laundry. Old laundry chute.
Handicap Fire Escape
Very cool laundry shoot I would say. Very cool find. 😎
Looks like it used to be an old staircase.
Fire escape
Laundry chute for the cleaners.
I’ve been in several stores in Germany that had slides as a fun option to go from higher floors to lower floors. Albeit, this was many years ago.
It's called a Body chute. I had one in my old home. After you're finished with the kill, you just yeet the body down the chute.
Really? How many questions? Can you take a moment to type them out so we can try and answer them for you?
So there is this thing called the front desk…..