Saw a TV ad that made me think & wonder...

Aunt Bea said:
They still use them here.

When I was little, I remember a few high end stores that used them to send money from the sales floor to the accounting office when you made a purchase.

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The Pneumatic Tube Room at Marshall Fields department store, Chicago, transporting cash and documents between departments in 90 seconds, 1947.
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yes we had the same here in our dept stores when I was small.. even when I became a teen some of the older more established stores still had them, and they were the stores were everything seemed to be made of highly polished wood, counters, Lifts (elavators).. etc, and elevators still had lift attendants .. and the glorious smell of furniture polish evrywhere ...


seems they were using a more modern version of this in germany and Sweden as recently as 2011...

 
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Aunt Bea said:
They still use them here.

When I was little, I remember a few high end stores that used them to send money from the sales floor to the accounting office when you made a purchase.

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The Pneumatic Tube Room at Marshall Fields department store, Chicago, transporting cash and documents between departments in 90 seconds, 1947.
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Oh my !... that takes me back to my first office job in 1949 in a large department store.
I was promoted after six months to the Tube Room.
It had three cashiers
When they had a big sale day it was traumatic, We all got headaches from the noise.😂
 
'our' banks have the push-pull drawer
at drive-thru that the bank employee
inside bank works.
 
Some ATM's here have had log chains and drug away, lots turned into LEO parking places.
House built, that sort of stuff.

I didn't trust the tubes and just walked into the bank if the waiting line was long at the one drive up widow.
Many others didn't use the tubes too.

Something about the Jeffersons just seemed, "so wrong!"
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I've had the same bank for 30+ years, and I've never actually seen the building. Banking was all direct deposit and done with a landline phone, then the internet.
Who goes to a bank any more? If I need cash, I can get it at the supermarket checkout- free. Cashing a check is just an iPhone photo click way.
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In my world if I need cash, and sometimes I do I have to go to a bank. The couple of stores around here do not have customer service departments, well, and a whole bunch of other things they don't have. I lived in even a smaller town once and the store had generic counter checks to get cash, but that was then. I have to travel at least 5 miles to even get cell phone reception so apps aren't in my world. Honestly that I even have internet is nearly a miracle. I do have indoor plumbing and electricity so I suppose I should count my blessings.
 
I don't remember seeing them at the banks I use, but Walgreen' s pharmacy has one that is no longer in use.
I have used them in the past there and I always had to get out of my car to use it because I'm so short. It was kind of a hassle.
 

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