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Nicholas Gerow (born April 21, 1989), known as CenTexElevators489 (formerly CaptainElevator42189), is an elevator filmer based in Austin, Texas, United States.

History

Ever since he was young, Nicholas has had a big fascination with elevators. In 2007, Nicholas was watching YouTube elevator videos posted by dieselducy, musicfreakcc, gluse, and patricknedz. On December 27 of that year, he launched his YouTube channel "CaptainElevator42189"; his first elevator he filmed was a Dover traction elevator at the Bob Bullock Museum and went live on December 30, 2007.  During his early days of filming elevators, he primarily filmed elevators at the University of Texas at Austin campus, where his mother worked, even though he attended Austin Community College from 2010 to 2015 and then attended the University of Texas at Austin from 2015 to 2020.  Nicholas then began to film elevators around all of Austin starting later in 2008. CaptainElevator42189 does collaboration videos with other elevator enthusiasts, such as JimLiElevators.

In 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018, and 2019, CaptainElevator42189 filmed elevators with dieselducy.

On March 13, 2013 (2013-03-13), 1.58 million views were lost from his channel bringing his total lifetime view down from 4.69 million to 3.12 million. Ever since that date, he has also lost a few thousand views on random days. Video deletion is surely to blame for the massive loss. As of late 2021/early 2022, he only has 5.19 million lifetime views.

On February 12, 2022, CaptainElevator42189 changed his name to CenTexElevators489 to reflect the geographic region of his elevator videos, currently focused on the Central Texas Area, which encompasses the Austin and San Antonio metropolitan areas.

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