[GreenKeys] Backup system for TTY

[Richard Knoppow]

    I remember the same set up in a small department store in 
small town Michigan when I was a kid. Baskets running on a system 
of wires. I have no idea of the reason. I also remember larger 
department stores using pneumatic tubes. It s possible both 
systems predated cash registers. I was astonished many years 
later to find the same basket and wire system in a large hardware 
and appliance store on La Brea Ave here in Los Angeles. Forgotten 
its name, long gone.
    I suspect some searching will find old advertising for these 
systems with an explanation of their virtues.

On 1/2/2022 7:06 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> Western Union made extensive use of both pneumatic tubes and 
> conveyor
> belts.  They got quite a number of patents in both fields.  Some of
> the developments are covered in Western Union Technical Review.
> 
> When I was in the  AF there was a pneumatic tube connecting the 
> communications building with the adjutant's office in the 
> headquarters
> building.  If a classified message was being sent through the 
> tube in
> either direction we were told to be in telephone contact with 
> someone
> at the other end of the tube until the message came through.
> 
> In my childhood in the small town J.C. Penney store there was a
> hand-powered conveyor running between the sales floor and the 
> cashiers
> who were located on a balcony above the show windows.  The sales 
> person
> would put your money and a receipt into the basket and pull a handle
> which would whiz the basket up to the cash handlers, who would make
> change and send it back to the sales floor with the receipt.  I 
> never
> learned the reason for this - was it to keep the sales people from
> handling cash or was it to keep the cash in a place where robbers
> would have a hard time getting to it?
> 
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