WestCoast Elevators

WestCoast Elevators
	; Kyle, "WestCoast Elevators"
Filming Elevators	February 7 2015 to Present
Part of the Community	Early 2014 to Present
Based In	San Jose, CA, United States

Kyle, better known by his YouTube name WestCoast Elevators, is an elevator photographer from the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA.

History[]

Pre-YouTube[]

Kyle was an elevator enthusiast for many years before he became active in the community. He has some very early memories of riding the scenic elevators at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, NV and the elevators at Westfield Valley Fair mall in San Jose, CA.

Joining The Community[]

WestCoast Elevators was inspired to start filming elevators by watching videos from other community members such as DieselDucy, NationalElevator, upanddownadventures, georgef551, and CVE9120. He officially entered the elevator community on 7 February 2015 when he filmed and uploaded his first elevator video. Kyle also had an earlier channel from which he watched and commented on elevator videos called Random Minecraft Person. No videos were ever uploaded to that account.

Current[]

Although elevators are his main passion when it comes to filming for his YouTube channel, Kyle has also uploaded videos of escalators, hotel tours/room reviews, airplane landings/takeoffs, airport trams, stand up paddle boarding, swimming, fishing, a dead mall tour, unboxings, trains, and buses.

Since he became interested in buses in late 2016, WestCoast Elevators has done a significant amount of filming transit vehivles. The primary agency he films is the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. His favorite buses were the VTA Gillig Phantom high floor buses that retired in June 2018. Kyle has filmed many agencies throughout California, the DMV area, and Philadelphia.

WestCoast Elevators has met up and filmed elevators with Ben Schumin, Brandon De Leon, upanddownadventures, Theodore Pfeffer, The Highrise Elevator Lover!!!!, gallagher123123, Caltrain 920 and Elevators, and pnwelevator; elevators and buses with UpLift Vancouver, Elyse Horvath, elevatorman138, and Snorkitty; elevators, buses, and trains with Worldwide Rail Productions; and buses with Anthony Nachor, Transit Routes, Trainz and Planes, Reese, and Severe Star.

Camera History[]

Primary Cameras:[]

Canon PowerShot ELPH 320 HS (February 2015 - April 2015)
Nikon COOLPIX S9700 (April 2015 - July 2016)
Canon EOS Rebel T6i (July 2016 - February 2020)
Canon EOS M10 (February 2020 - February 2020)
Canon EOS M6 (February 2020 - Present)

Secondary Cameras (including previous primaries):[]

Canon PowerShot ELPH 320 HS (April 2015 - June 2016)
Samsung Galaxy S4 (February 2015 - May 2017)
Panasonic Lumix TS 20 (February 2015 - July 2017)
Nikon COOLPIX S9700 (July 2016 - July 2018)
Apple iPhone SE (April 2018 - July 2019)
Samsung Galaxy S8 (May 2017 - April 2020)
Apple iPhone 8 (October 2019 - May 2020)
GoPro Hero 6 Black Edition (May 2018 - July 2020)
Samsung Galaxy S10e (April 2020 - February 2021)
Nikon COOLPIX A900 (August 2018 - Present)
Canon PowerShot G7X Mk II (September 2018 - Present)
Apple iPhone 12 Mini (November 2020 - Present)
Samsung Galaxy S21 (February 2021 - Present)

Random Facts[]

WestCoast Elevators is a college student studying Business Computer Information Systems.
Kyle is one of a few known blind or legally blind members of the Elevator Community (including Elyse Horvath, gallagher123123, Elevating Northern Colorodo, and The Highrise Elevator Lover!!!!).
In October 2015, he lost an SD card aboard a plane containing footage of original Otis Vanity and SchindlerHaughton L-Series elevators at the Trillium Towers and associated parking garage as well as a hotel tour and elevator ride at the Hilton Woodland Hills, both in Woodland Hills CA,.
WestCoast Elevators is the only elevator photographer to have uploaded a video of himself Stand Up Paddle Boarding and/or fishing from a boat on the ocean.
Although most of his videos are from the San Francisco Bay Area in California, Kyle has filmed videos from 16 US states/territories (Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Washington D.C.).
In late 2016 Kyle found some new interest in trains and buses, and started uploading videos of both, although less frequently than elevators. Since then transit videos have become regular staples of the channel.
Although elevators are his channel's main focus, his most popular video is a dead mall tour of Vallco Shopping Mall in Cupertino, CA.

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