Jamestube 8439

Hi everyone, thank you for 10 years of video making on YouTube!! It was back on June 26th 2015 that I recorded and posted my very first YouTube video of a neat electronic deadbolt lock I saw at Home Depot. I’ve been watching videos on YouTube since 2014 but didn’t start creating videos until late June 2015. I can’t wait to see where I end up within the next 10 years and many more to come following that! Thank you once again, I’m very pleased to be sharing this huge milestone through my journey on YouTube!

Look out for a live stream tomorrow afternoon and evening to celebrate!

Also if you’d like to watch that particular video I posted 10 years ago, use this link to watch it: https://youtu.be/8YcLNHePyD0?si=9Bf_K...

2 months ago | [YT] | 4

Jamestube 8439

Recently just returned from a trip to Las Vegas NV and St George Utah. Figured I’d shared some of the highlights of the trip. See the following for more info about each picture:

1. The original Schindler Miconic 10 panels and destination system in Las Vegas.

2. One of at least 15 US Soft Touch elevators I got to record in St George.

3. I had the opportunity to ride my first TK ISIS Elevator (NOTICE: ISIS refers to a model of elevator produced by ThyssenKrupp. It has nothing to do with terrorism)

4. Discovered an Otis Series 5 NEL in St George (3rd one I’ve discovered as a whole!)

5. A very nice US/Kimball Square Button in St George.

6. Got to ride my first Schindler 400A with regular HT fixtures in Downtown Las Vegas (Every 400A I rode before always had vandal resistant fixtures) And yes, HT buttons on 400As really do press differently than HT on 321As and 330As

7. The infamous “inclanator” elevators at the Luxor at the Strip in Las Vegas. These felt very weird to ride!

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3 months ago | [YT] | 9

Jamestube 8439

Clarkston elevators will finish up this Friday, starting Saturday I will begin uploading elevator videos from a city that is way overdue to be posted... Southfield! Southfield content will begin Saturday and will last for the next few months as I have roughly 200 videos from the area! Lots of good elevators in Southfield such as Southfield Town Center, the infamous "Windows XP" elevator, and much more!

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3 months ago | [YT] | 6

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Hope everyone is doing well, a couple more announcements:
1. I've recently updated my upload schedule, see the picture attached (click to enlarge). Siren videos will now be posted on Sunday to give me more time to edit and upload them as opposed to uploading them the same day or early the next day.

2. Hotel Tours are officially coming to channel! They will be uploaded on the 3rd Sunday of each month as seen in the schedule.

3. The 4000 Subscriber Special movie (Destination Dispatch Elevator Compilation) is expected to premiere on Sunday April 13th so stay tuned for that. A public watch page will be created after I finish making and uploading the movie to YouTube.

4. I plan to get the first video uploaded some time next on my new aviation channel. Here is a link to it Aviation Ace - ‪@AviationAceDG737‬

5. Within the next few months, I plan to make all my databases publicly accessible all of you. My databases include elevator serial/license numbers of elevators/escalators I've recorded. Other databases include my maps of sirens, elevators, railroad crossings and hotel tours of locations I've recorded at as well. My goal is to have a page on my website linking to all my databases for anyone to access by the end of the summer.




Thanks for reading! Comment the word nugget if you made it this far!

5 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 7

Jamestube 8439

Thank you everyone for 4,000 subscribers! Each and every one of you have helped me reach this next milestone, and because of that, this means a new subscriber special for this milestone will be released. This movie will be called the Destination Dispatch Movie which will be a compilation of elevators with destination dispatch systems. Since lately we've been going "destinations" with hitting a bunch of milestones over the past years, I figured this would be a cool compilation movie. The date is currently still to be announced, so stay tuned for that.

With that being said, there are 3 more announcements:

1. Subscribe to my newest channel! It is called ‪@AviationAceDG737‬ and it will be my new airplane and aviation channel! Videos for this channel will be posted randomly as it will not be something I constantly go out to film content for on a regular basis.

2. Hotel tour videos will begin to be posted once a month on the 2nd second Saturday of each month.

3. Lastly, this will be an opportunity to prioritize some of my best content. Most of my content is posted based on age, the oldest videos I have tend to get prioritized for the next municipality uploaded. I am willing to prioritize elevator/escalator content from either Detroit MI or Honolulu HI if I reach 5,000 subscribers by the end of the year. I will let you guys pick one of the 2 to be prioritized if that happens, so vote below for either Detroit or Honolulu

5 months ago | [YT] | 7

Jamestube 8439

Hope everyone is doing well, recently just returned from a 2 week vacation to Hawaii, and while I was on vacation I noticed how close I was getting to reaching 4,000 subscribers! So thank you to everyone for your continued support for my channel and videos. Now that we are getting close, there are 3 things that will happen for 4K and they are the following:

1. There will be a 4,000 subscriber special movie which will be called the Destination Dispatch Movie or something like that and it will be a compilation of all or most of the destination dispatch elevators I have filmed.

2. I will be opening a brand new channel! Lately I have begun the process of working on a new channel, now this one won't have weekly uploads but videos rather to be posted spontaneously considering this will be a channel of a hobby that I will not film content regularly for. The channel will be announced when I reach 4,000 subs as it is still currently in progress of being set up.

3. Lastly, hotel tours are coming to the channel! Having started making them back in 2021, I have quite a few hotel and resort tours just backlogged and waiting to be posted. I will be posting these once a month, and I'm probably going to post them on the 2nd saturday of the month (1st saturday of the month is typically siren tests while the rest will be elevator videos). So definitely look for all of those coming real soon!

5 months ago | [YT] | 8

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I didn't realize it in the moment, and I'm only realizing it now after seeing it when I logged into YouTube studio, but thank you everyone for 2 Million views!! I hit 2 Million back on February 12th, and it's all thanks to you guys for helping me reach that milestone!

6 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 6

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Hi everyone, quick update for you all. Videos will be returning tomorrow, after roughly 4.5 years, I will be retiring my current logo along with re-doing the intro cards as well. It's been long overdue and has been on my list of things to do to improve my channel and content. I decided I wanted to spend a few days working on the new designs of the channel logo and intro cards which has delayed videos. Anyways my new logo for Jamestube 8439 will be changed tonight, and starting tomorrow all new videos will include the new intro cards.
Edit: Elevator/Escalator Videos from Michigan will begin on Friday. I'll start things off with 5 videos from Huntington Woods and then we'll move to Royal Oak Michigan where I have over 110 videos.

8 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 9

Jamestube 8439

Hey everyone, I just wanted to come on here and announce the schedule for special videos and live streams for both Jamestube 8439 and Royal King of the Rails. Normal videos will still be posted through my typical upload schedule
The special videos/streams schedule is as follows:

Jamestube 8439:
12/24: Annual Christmas Eve Elevator Rides at my Church with a brand new Elevator! (Premiering at 9:30 P.M.)
12/31: Annual Year in Review Live Stream (Maybe Jackbox Games as well?)
12/31: Annual End of the Year Elevator Celebration Video (Premiering sometime between 7-9 PM?)

Royal King of the Rails:
Either 12/27 or 12/28: Final Midnight Railfanning Stream of 2024 somewhere in Illinois (Location to be Determined)
12/31: Top 10 best Train catches of 2024

8 months ago | [YT] | 5

Jamestube 8439

New York City content has all been uploaded, tomorrow videos from Scranton PA will begin being uploaded. Following Scranton I have some other videos from eastern Pennsylvania as well.

Happy Thanksgiving hope everyone has an awesome day, go spend it with friends, family and people you’re grateful for. I’m thankful for all of you!

9 months ago | [YT] | 9