Originally Posted by
dunster
I remember those. I also remember the pneumatic tubes that ran back and forth in the department stores carrying cash. And I remember buying beautiful fabric for 79 cents per yard. Too bad I didn't know to stockpile it back then...
I too remember the pneumatic cash machines used to convey cash from the registers up into the air to the above shoppers to the office in the Co-operative store in England. There is a similar set up still used today in our K-Mart - I happened to notice an assistant tucking notes into a container in a pole next to the cash register and asked if it was sending cash to the office? A similar system is used in hospitals for sending blood samples to the lab - they're so noisy that they made me jump whilst sitting in the waiting room??