Michael Boles

I was first introduced to Mike Boles back in 1983 when I joined Otis Farmington Engineering.

I worked directly with Mike on the Elevonic 401 Straight and Field Wiring Diagrams. He had a tremendous amount of knowledge to share in regards to elevators, and he was more than willing to share his experience with me in regards to how an elevator worked electrically.

My first trip to the field was with Mike and Al Saxer to look over modernizing one of the worlds largest...

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Mike Boles was a great friend to me. I met Mike through a program to hire new junior draftsman for Otis Elevator in the 1965. Mike graduated from Chelsea Vocational High in lower Manhattan around 1955. He heard about these openings in Otis as junior draftsman and somehow, they came to Chelsea in 1965 to look at the best the school had to offer; well I was one of four they hired at the old age of 17. I stayed for 44 years. During those 44 I followed Mikes moves. We left NYC to...