GOING UP: A reader wrote to us after visiting the former Odd Fellows Building — now Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center — to see the Great Lakes Lighter Swap Meet.

Our reader recalled when the building’s elevators were manned by an operator. And those operators could be darn useful.

“Upon entering their domain perhaps not knowing the particular floor/room of one’s business was not a problem, for the operator knew the building directory completely,” our reader said, noting, “Their attention to service/dress/manners reminds one of the department stores on the Ginza, Tokyo, Japan.”

Ginza is a shopping district there.

Our reader had a question for anyone who was around for Bradford’s elevator operators: “Does anyone remember the names of those gentlemen/men, years of service/particulars? When did the elevators go self-service?”

“Of course, the Hooker-Fulton Building and (imagine the Emery Hotel) also employed such attendants. Credit goes to them as well and service they provided.”

Let us know, readers, if you remember.

This reader left us with a second recollection:

“Another long-gone profession: telephone operators. Number, please?”

ZUCCHINI: Fran Rovito shared this “Thought for Today”:

“Never leave your car unlocked when visiting a gardener friend during Zucchini season!”

ASSEMBLY: This happening from 399 years ago today was interesting.

As the Associated Press reports, “In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.”

From July 30, through Aug. 4, 1619, the first legislative assembly in English North America — the House of Burgesses — was held in the choir of the Jamestown (Va.) Church, the National Parks Service further explained.

“Although it was not the intent, the effects of this first representative assembly would frame the foundations of our present government — where citizens can elect representatives to speak for them: a government of ‘of the people, by the people and for the people,’” the National Parks Service states.