Guinness World Records claims that the world’s first working escalator was made by Jesse W. Reno of Kansas Nathan Ames of Massachusetts was the first to patent the first escalator-like machine in 1859 ...

A six-year-old Cloverdale boy has a swollen, scraped right hand but with that a story about how firefighters rescued him after it become jammed in a department store escalator railing. Tallen Theiss ...

Due this month from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, "Thank You for Shopping" chronicles the history of department stores in Minnesota — from their rise in the late 1800s through their decline ...