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Posted: 30 Apr 2019

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"Time travel" in Wing Hing Long

"Time travel" in Wing Hing Long
General stores were once to be found in most Australian country towns, selling everything from ladies' underwear to groceries and hardware. They've all now gone, as a result of supermarkets and improved transport. I'll confess to being taken back to my younger years when I walked inside and saw the shelves of groceries and such (PiPs 2 and 3). It's good that this has been preserved as a museum.

How many of you remember the old "cash carrier" flying fox devices, where payments were fired in a cassette along a wire to a cashier's office? The sending device for that is visible in PiP2 and PiP3 - these predated cash registers.

Holger Hagen, Jean-luc Drouin, Aschi "Freestone", Diane Putnam and 16 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Pam J
Pam J club
THIS IS WONDERFUL !

OH YES !! I WELL REMEMBER THE SHUTTLES ON THE WIRES FOR SENDING CASH !! THEY USED TO FASCINATE ME AS A CHILD.
5 years ago.
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Excellent shot and PIPs!

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5 years ago.
 Diana Australis
Diana Australis club
A real blast from the past, George.
5 years ago.
 RHH
RHH club
Interesting information, George. Don't remember seeing stores like this when I was growing up.
5 years ago.
 Roger (Grisly)
Roger (Grisly) club
Goodness that takes me George, especially the cash carrier.
5 years ago.
 ╰☆☆June☆☆╮
╰☆☆June☆☆╮ club
Oh, this is great George. A real blast from the past, and love the pips.
Yes, I remember the cash carriers !!!!
5 years ago.
 Janet Brien
Janet Brien club
WOWWWW, George, this is totally fascinating and so enticing. I wonder how much time you spent in here, absorbing all that there was to see. Talk about brain overload...so MUCH to look at EVERYWHERE! I loved all of your pictures, so full of cool things to look at and think about.

I have never seen a "fly box" before but I've seen plenty of the vacuum shoots or whatever they're called, where you put money in a canister, put it in the tube and it shoots along a series of tubes into the manager's office or wherever it's directed to. It's a great system and always fun to watch the cannisters zooming on their way! :)
5 years ago.
 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne
Wonderful pictures George. Times have changed so much. They were great country stores!
5 years ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
lovely image and find!
5 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
I love such old fashioned stores, there's such a lot to explore!
5 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
Diane Putnam club
Oh, this is delightful! I don't think I ever saw a "zip line" cash carrier, but I remember the vacuum tube kind in department stores. We still have those in some bank drive-throughs.

What treasures we could find in these jumbles of goods! The creaking floor, the smell of the wood, cloth, dust, candy, everything...
5 years ago.
 just"jj"
just"jj"
I do remember those!!!
AND those under garments
Would you believe I wore such structures as a teenager?!
Thank goodness women are no longer so constricted.
:)
5 years ago.

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