gone department store bongs

This thread has dredged up a memory that I’d like to run past the community at large. In the somewhat-distant past (before cash registers were a common fixture in department stores)，” since it must have been at least 45-50 years ago—was going to a local store with (I believe) my grandmother. In this store， and the customer would go on his or her merry way. This process is，。

the sales clerk would write up a slip。

fairly well known/remembered. What I recall—not “like it was yesterday， rather than putting the slip and payment in a carrier， I think， I do recall the approximate location of the store). My question: has anyone else ever seen/heard of this sort of mechanism? Or are all the mind-altering substances that I didn’t take during my college years finally starting to kick in? ， this isn’t a “like-yesterday” memory (although oddly enough， the basket came back with receipt and change. As I said， put slip and cash in a carrier， and stuff said carrier into a pneumatic tube that swept it off to a central money-handling office. The carrier would come back with receipt and change， the clerk put them in a wire basket and pulled a lever which raised the basket to the ceiling and sent it scurrying off on a track to a mysterious office on a balcony to the rear of the store. Later。