Asansör ( Turkish for "

elevator An elevator or lift is a cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or decks of a building, vessel, or other structure. They a ...

", derived from the French word ''ascenseur'') is a historical building in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

Karataş Karataş ( gr, Μέγαρσος, Mègarsos) is a small city and a district in Adana Province, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, 47 km from the city of Adana, between the rivers of Seyhan and Ceyhan, the Pyramos of Antiquity. The city of K ...

quarter, within the boundaries of the metropolitan district of Konak. It was built in 1907 as a work of public service by a wealthy

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

banker and trader of that period, Nesim Levi Bayraklıoğlu, in order to ease passage from the narrow coastline of Karataş to the hillside, the elevator within the building serving to carry people and goods through the steep cliff between the two parts of the quarter. In time, the small street that led to the building also came to be known under the same name, Asansör Street (''Asansör Sokağı''). In the 1940s, one of the residents of the street was the singer Darío Moreno, who was to attain fame later. It was recently restored and since then, became one of the landmarks of İzmir. The street was renamed Darío Moreno Street in memory of the singer. Asansor View from Dario Moreno Street Izmir Turkey.jpeg, View of Asansör from Darío Moreno Street Asansor From Ground Level Izmir Turkey.jpg, Looking up at the Asansör tower Asansör (yandan).jpg, Asansör side view TR Izmir asv2020-02 img55 Asansör.jpg, Entrance hall TR Izmir asv2020-02 img52 Asansör.jpg, View from the top of the Asansör in Izmir.

References

* Özkan, Timur
''Asansör, İzmir.''
Fotogezgin.com, 2008.

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