And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Helen Sarros working in the Pneumatic Tube Room, Marshall Fields Department Store, Chicago, Illinois c. 1947
I remember the pneumatic tubes in Meyer Brothers department store in Paterson, NJ circa 1950. My grandmother used to take me there shopping. The clerk put the paper receipt and cash in the tube and it went off to a department to be recorded and change given. Then, after a few minutes it appeared from a return tube and plopped into a padded basket.
The system where my dad worked (it support for a hospital) was super fun to play with. I could put a note in, set the destinatino address, and then run after it. Ah, I miss being 8.
When I started in the call center at the local gas and electric company in 1972,we hand wrote the orders on carbonized forms and dropped them on a belt next to our desks. A series of belts collected them to the dispatch room where they were sent via pneumatic tubes to the correct department. Very little noise associated with the tubes although sometimes the carriers got stuck in the tubes and had to be blown out with extra pressure..
I remember the pneumatic tubes in Meyer Brothers department store in Paterson, NJ circa 1950. My grandmother used to take me there shopping. The clerk put the paper receipt and cash in the tube and it went off to a department to be recorded and change given. Then, after a few minutes it appeared from a return tube and plopped into a padded basket.
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ReplyDeleteBrandon might know as well, Anon.
DeleteIt's kinda like the Internets, a series of tubes
ReplyDeleteLooks like the backside of a pipe organ.
ReplyDeleteThe system where my dad worked (it support for a hospital) was super fun to play with. I could put a note in, set the destinatino address, and then run after it. Ah, I miss being 8.
ReplyDeleteAnybody know if there was a hearing-loss problem assoc. with that job?
ReplyDeleteWhen I started in the call center at the local gas and electric company in 1972,we hand wrote the orders on carbonized forms and dropped them on a belt next to our desks. A series of belts collected them to the dispatch room where they were sent via pneumatic tubes to the correct department. Very little noise associated with the tubes although sometimes the carriers got stuck in the tubes and had to be blown out with extra pressure..
ReplyDeleteHad those on first ship. All tubes led to radio central. Sometimes crosscut shreds flew around the ship….
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