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Originally Posted by Armybrat
"old"  
50+ years ago when we shopped at the really old Woolworth's store on the west side of Congress, if you made a purchase at a counter, the clerk put the sales invoice and your money in a pneumatic tube (like the modern bank drive-thrus use) which whisked it away to a central cashier. A minute later the change & receipt came popping back. The old wood floors creaked pretty loud and the planks were full of brass repair patches.
Over in Taylor in old Pruett's Hardware Store instead of a pneumatic tube, they used a similar container that was propelled around the store on an overhead system of wires. The clerk put the cash & invoice in the container and pulled down hard once on a cord handle which provided the energy to zip it over to the teller's cage. |
That Woolworth's was still open in the very early 1980s. I believe it was torn down for One American Center.