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Skipping the 13th Floor

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Skipping the 13th Floor - by Shirley Li/ Tech/ TheAtlantic.com

" Humans assign so much meaning to numbers that superstition affects infrastructure design..."

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Richard
 
Our last apartment in NYC was on the 13th floor, but they called it the 14th floor. I always thought that was just silly!
 
It is a little silly. Customs are sometimes inexplicable. Like in much of the world, they call the 1st floor the same place we would call the 2nd floor.
 
Interesting. I don't believe in the superstition. Just got back from Aruba Surf Club and noticed no 13th floor. My 7 yo always had fun by asking people to hit the 13th floor button for her and many were surprised to find it didn't exist. A staffer said you won't find a 13 floor in a Marriott per Bill Marriott and this article supports it http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/biztravel/2007-03-08-13th-floor-usat_N.htm.
 
Apparently the new World Trace Center skips a lot of floors 1 through 20 and 94-99 to appear taller than it is.
 
Apparently the new World Trace Center skips a lot of floors 1 through 20 and 94-99 to appear taller than it is.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center#Layout


Layout

One World Trade Center's top floor is officially designated as floor 104.[5] The building has 86 usable above-ground floors, of which 78 will be used for office purposes (approximately 2,600,000 square feet, or 240,000 square meters).[136][137][138] The base consists of floors 1–19, including a 65-foot-high (20 m) public lobby. The office floors begin at floor 20, and go up to floor 63. There is a sky lobby on floor 64; office floors resume on floor 65, and stop at floor 90. Floors 91–99 and 103–104 are mechanical floors.[10]

The tower has a three-story observation deck located on floors 100–102, and broadcast and antenna facilities.[10] Similar to the Empire State Building, visitors are separated from the tenants, having their own separate entrance next to the museum, descending down to a below-ground security screening area.[139] The observation deck is expected to open in spring 2015, with an admission fee of $32 per person,[140][141] and is expected to have about 3.5 million visitors per year.[142]

The tenants have access to below-ground parking, storage, and shopping; access to PATH, New York City Subway trains, and the World Financial Center is also provided at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, Fulton Street/Fulton Center, Chambers Street, and Cortlandt Street stations.[143] The building allows direct access to West Street, Vesey Street, and Fulton Street at ground level.[143] The building has an approximate underground footprint of 42,000 square feet (3,900 m2),[143] of which 55,000 square feet (5,100 m2) is retail space. A plan to build a restaurant near the top of the tower, similar to the original One World Trade Center's Windows on the World, was abandoned as logistically impractical. The tower's window-washing tracks are located on a 16-square-foot area, which will be designated as floor 110 as a symbolic reference to the 110 floors of the original tower.[144]
 
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13th floor unlucky for many!

People may not believe in the bad luck but I know years ago Bill Harrah had a 13th floor at the Lake Tahoe hotel/casino because he felt 13 unlucky for the gamblers which made it lucky for him in his casino.:ponder:
My wife and I went up for years and stayed for the weekends and would go home up or down few hundred dollars from gambling. I won a few times on Keno winning $16,000 twice and about $9,000 during a three year span.:clap:
We were given discounts for rooms and main showroom many times partly because living in Reno in earlier years my parents knew Bill Harrah so we were given many comps.:clap:
One time we went up to Lake Tahoe and they gave us one of the best rooms but it was on the 13th floor which until then never noticed and we lost that weekend more than ever before. If I had to put a dime in for the toilet I would have lost my dime it was so bad. We lost more in first day than the whole year and never stayed even for free on the 13th floor again.:crash:

Phill12 :eek:
 
People may not believe in the bad luck but I know years ago Bill Harrah had a 13th floor at the Lake Tahoe hotel/casino because he felt 13 unlucky for the gamblers which made it lucky for him in his casino.:ponder:
My wife and I went up for years and stayed for the weekends and would go home up or down few hundred dollars from gambling. I won a few times on Keno winning $16,000 twice and about $9,000 during a three year span.:clap:
We were given discounts for rooms and main showroom many times partly because living in Reno in earlier years my parents knew Bill Harrah so we were given many comps.:clap:
One time we went up to Lake Tahoe and they gave us one of the best rooms but it was on the 13th floor which until then never noticed and we lost that weekend more than ever before. If I had to put a dime in for the toilet I would have lost my dime it was so bad. We lost more in first day than the whole year and never stayed even for free on the 13th floor again.:crash:

Phill12 :eek:

If you had been Chinese you would won a ton of money staying on 13th floor... just saying.
 
Doesn't Matter What you Call It

You can call the 13th fl the 14th fl or the 114th fl for all it matters. It's still the 13th floor.
 
Our last apartment in NYC was on the 13th floor, but they called it the 14th floor. I always thought that was just silly!

DH grew up in NYC, on floor 14m...m for mezzanine. The elevator went from 12 to 14 to 14m...or maybe it was the other way around.
 
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