160 Spear Street Does It Wrong – Why On Earth Would You Label Elevator Buttons This Way?

See? They’re upside-down.

Or backwards, or something:

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It’s just not right.

I cry foul.

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4 Responses to “160 Spear Street Does It Wrong – Why On Earth Would You Label Elevator Buttons This Way?”

  1. Bill says:
    June 30, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    Asians/Arabs read right to left?

    (love your blog, long time lurker, first time poster)

  2. sfcitizen says:
    June 30, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    Muchas Bill!

    Well, this white boy was confused, anyway…

  3. Chris says:
    March 21, 2013 at 12:55 pm

    I work there. It’s an ADA thing. There are two sets of buttons in the elevators. One the “normal” way and one the backwards way. Makes it so no matter how tall you are you can reach your floor.

  4. sfcitizen says:
    March 21, 2013 at 6:04 pm

    Wow, I’m not looking to seeing more of this!

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