'I didn't see an escalator until I went to college': Wyomingites charmingly recollect the first time they saw an escalator living in the state that only has two of them

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Sep 20, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

It's amazing to think of the things that most of us take for granted that a select part of the population has very little exposure to. For example: not everywhere has any buildings that rise over two stories. While not everybody gets to walk among the skyscrapers in Manhattan, that's a pretty crazy thought for most of us, right? Yet that is just the life that some people lead.

With this comes the revelation that there are some people who go many years of their life without ever using something like an escalator. This is especially true for the people of Wyoming, as the sparsely populated state only boasts two in its nearly 100,000 square miles. This was the subject of a wholesome Twitter thread, where Wyomingites and people from other remote places shared their experiences of seeing an escalator for the first time. Those moving stairs are a sight to behold.

 

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    New town every hour @TownsUsa Number of escalators by state WA Follow VT ME MT ND OR MN ID SD WI NY MA WY MI IA PA NJ NE NV UT CO OH .DE IL IN ww MD CA 669 KS VA MO KY DC NC TN OK AZ NM AR SC MS AL GA TX LA AK Created with map-chart.net HI FL Number of Escalators 2 >2
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    sodas rule! @tremendouslybig Follow 0 there has to be at least 1 person who has lived in and stayed in wyoming their entire life and has never seen an escalator right. or likei mean seeing your first escalator as a kid from wyoming's gotta be a pretty big deal
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    New town every hour @TownsUsa . 5d: Replying to @tremendouslybig my sons are 8 and saw their first one this year (in Nebraska)
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    Aaron Siegel @Aaron DSiegel .4d Replying to @tremendouslybig gotta be terrifying if you come from the wrong family. levitating stairs that bring you up? haunted
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    Mike Rana, MA @IAmMikeRana - 4d Replying to @tremendouslybig So have people from Wyoming never been through an airport? 27 12 ılı 38.1K ☐ % sodas rule! @tremendously big. 4d their airports just dont have escalators
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    Kautzmania @kautzmania • 3d Replying to @tremendouslybig Growing up in North Dakota in the 80s, my first escalator was the little airport and I couldn't get enough of it. Distinct early memory of that escalator. Running up and down over and over, even how it smelled.
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    Ari @Remorseless Fang 5d . Replying to @tremendouslybig First time I saw an escalator was at a mall and there was a big red button at the bottom of it, so obviously I pressed it and the escalator stopped, and my dad was like "we gotta get out of here" so we ran back to the car and went home.
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    JACKSON @jgotskill. 5d Replying to @tremendouslybig I knew a guy from wyoming that said he never saw a building taller than 2 floors until was a teenager
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    Allison @FireflyAllie 4d Replying to @tremendouslybig I grew up in a town without escalators and it was really exciting to get to go to a big city and see them. I'm in my 30s and I still am more hesitant stepping on them than most people
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    Link Maxwell @LnkMxwl · 4d . Replying to @tremendouslybig I had a friend in the Army who was from WY and I got to be with him on his first escalator ride at 18 years old.
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    • kira @no__kira · 4d Replying to @tremendouslybig The sad part is that, pretty often, both of the escalators don't work. So essentially they are just ultra fancy stairs
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    THE MASTER KEY GERUMADE MAELI INSTRUMEN Marc Cabot @DreamsOfControl .4d Replying to @tremendouslybig I didn't ride in an elevator until I was six. I distinctly remember it.
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    Ray @Hirai9669-3d Replying to @tremendouslybig i never thought id have an EXACT story for a random tweet but my little cousin from wy visited us years ago, we got dropped off at the mall and she was TERRIFIED of the escalator, the rest of us had to go up n down it like 5 times to convince her n hold her on the way down lol
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    Joe Patrick @projoepat 3d • Replying to @tremendouslybig I grew up in Wyoming, and escalators are still cool to me lol. What's even more cool is in later years I worked at a museum in SLC Utah, and one day we got to see a group of 20 kids who had just immigrated to the US absolutely freak out over our escalators, it was adorable!
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    Lee @redneckleeusmc-4d Replying to @tremendouslybig I didn't see an escalator until I went to college. And yes it was a big deal.
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    john hussein kennedy ❤ @magumedonos Replying to @tremendouslybig Follow when i was in middle school i was reading the game of thrones books on family road trip and got to the 3rd book in the series and we needed to find a bookstore, so we found one in casper i think, at a mall that was half closed down and dilapitated, but had an escalator
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    sir matty @madddddys. 3d took a bunch of kids from wyoming on the metro and they saw this escalator and literally gasped X003
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    soup @marthastwrtofcl. 4d I grew up in Wyoming and when we went out of state my brother and I would get into violent, catastrophic arguments about who got to press the elevator buttons bc the avg town doesn't have many of those either
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    nintendo Wi-Fi connection @strawbebbl. 3d amberlin does anyone else remember when the news ran a segment on the escalators in casper and one of the banks started charging people to RIDE THE ESCALATORS?? it was genuinely an attraction for some people
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