Night Register Dean St, Brooklyn, New York This is the kind of cash register I learned to operate as a youth. Now they’re museum pieces. Share this:EmailWhatsAppShare on TumblrMastodonMorePocketRedditLike this:Like Loading... Published by Adam Isler photographer View all posts by Adam Isler
I remember these, and also some stores had those vacuum tubes where the cashier put the money in a canister and it would zoom away. Loading... Reply
lolo. exactly..they used them when they had fundraisers.. they probably sold those too. Loading... Reply
So did I Adam, in an old pharmacy. You really had to hit those levers to ring up a sale, and counting out change was all done in your head. Loading... Reply
Exactly. And you counted up from the sale amount to what the customer had given you, instead of trying to do the subtraction. Loading... Reply
I remember these, and also some stores had those vacuum tubes where the cashier put the money in a canister and it would zoom away.
kind of like Zabars or B&H Photo.
my father had 2.he gave them to the synagogue.
what did the snagogue need 2 cash registers for? Hadassah fundraisers?
lolo. exactly..they used them when they had fundraisers.. they probably sold those too.
So did I Adam, in an old pharmacy. You really had to hit those levers to ring up a sale, and counting out change was all done in your head.
Exactly. And you counted up from the sale amount to what the customer had given you, instead of trying to do the subtraction.
Cha ching!
I wish!