I don't think we have any escalators in Hilo. Wait, check that: the airport has a few. There are probably fewer than a dozen buildings in this town of 60,000 that are over 2 stories tall, nearly all hotels or apartment buildings. Sure is different from Philadelphia! Speaking of Philadelphia, and escalators, I remember one of the downtown department stores (it might have been Lit Brothers) had old escalators with large wooden slats -- I'm not sure if they are still there....probably had to remove them for liability reasons. Anybody else remember those? And I've not been particularly impressed with how often escalators are out of service, especially compared with other items, such as Microsoft operating systems!