Many children returned from past trips to tell younger siblings about their first escalator ride.
After all, even escalators were initially regarded as terrifying: when Harrods, a London department store, introduced its first escalator in 1898, smelling salts and brandy were provided to revive customers overcome by the experience.
Remember to do the same procedure as you did with the first escalator.
Much of what he has seen and experienced in New York is a lifetime first: first escalator, first automatic revolving door, first traffic light, first skyscraper.
After we had kids, we'd take them to Westgate for shopping and ice cream, and it's where my son Apollo, born and raised in Kenya, rode his first escalator.
While in Chechnya, though, Mr. Marra discovered that he had made a factual error in the book, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" (Hogarth), which was published this month: The first escalator there was not installed until 2007, when it became a sort of tourist attraction.
It was the first escalator built in Sweden and hasn't been restored since.
It is just off the lower level walkway that runs from the Seventh Avenue escalators to the main concourse.
A monumental black and white portrait of the man hangs in the first store seen from the escalator to the shopping level.
There are plants alongside the escalator to the second floor, where the men's clothing lives, and the first thing to greet you is a white horse mannequin.
