The paternoster is a doorless, conveyor-belt-style elevator that is largely extinct, except in Germany, where enthusiasts have kept the lifts running. Photo: Ellen Jervell/The Wall Street Journal ...

Doorless cabins, known as paternosters, are used for everything from speed dating to concerts. Now fans are fighting off attempts to restrict their use because of safety fears As the paternoster cabin ...

Safety be damned. Germany’s just-imposed restrictions on its controversial but beloved Paternoster elevators seem destined for an early demise. Germany’s Cabinet ministers decided Wednesday to ...

The article “In Escalating Battle, Germans Step Up for Doorless Elevators,” page one, June 26) brings back memories of my childhood visits in the late 1940s to the flour mill built by my grandfather.

Warning signs on the Paternoster in Schoeneberg town hall in Berlin on June 12, 2015. The alternative elevators are in constant motion and require users to hop on, hop off. McClatchy Safety be damned.