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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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Imagine being a cashier before bar codes...Real cash registers
People had to know how to count change. Startling I know.
I was a cashier before bar codes. First job I had in high school, we had the traditional register where you push dollars, dimes, cents buttons and "total". You made change by counting it back.
A couple jobs after that, I worked at a fast food place where they actually gave you a math test - challenging questions like 3 X 98 cents. Being an engineering student, I just went straight down the paper filling in the answers as fast as I could write them down. The manager had hardly even gone back to what he was doing when I handed him the paper. He was astonished. "No, really, I just finished up Vector Calculus; these arithmetic problems aren't going to be an issue for me..."
And these days, if my total is $19.76 and I hand the cashier a $20 bill and a penny, I'll get back 24 cents change- and my penny.
Radithor was manufactured from 1918 to 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, Inc. of East Orange, New Jersey. The owner of the company and head of the laboratories was listed as William J. A. Bailey, a dropout from Harvard College,[1] who was not a medical doctor.[2] It was advertised as "A Cure for the Living Dead"[3] as well as "Perpetual Sunshine". The expensive product was claimed to cure impotence among other ills.[4]
Eben Byers, a wealthy American socialite, athlete, industrialist, and Yale College graduate, was said to have died from radium poisoning in 1932, however the real cause was various cancers also as a result of Radithor use.[5] Byers was buried in a lead-lined coffin; when exhumed in 1965 for study, his remains were still highly radioactive and measured at 225,000 becquerels.[4] As a comparison, the roughly 0.0169 g of potassium-40 present in a typical human body produces approximately 4,400 becquerels.[6]
Byers's death led to the strengthening of the Food and Drug Administration's powers and the demise of most radiation-based patent medicines. A Wall Street Journal article (1 Aug. 1990) describing the Byers incident was titled "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off".[7]
source: Radithor - Wikipedia
Radithor was manufactured from 1918 to 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, Inc. of East Orange, New Jersey. The owner of the company and head of the laboratories was listed as William J. A. Bailey, a dropout from Harvard College,[1] who was not a medical doctor.[2] It was advertised as "A Cure for the Living Dead"[3] as well as "Perpetual Sunshine". The expensive product was claimed to cure impotence among other ills.[4]
Eben Byers, a wealthy American socialite, athlete, industrialist, and Yale College graduate, was said to have died from radium poisoning in 1932, however the real cause was various cancers also as a result of Radithor use.[5] Byers was buried in a lead-lined coffin; when exhumed in 1965 for study, his remains were still highly radioactive and measured at 225,000 becquerels.[4] As a comparison, the roughly 0.0169 g of potassium-40 present in a typical human body produces approximately 4,400 becquerels.[6]
Byers's death led to the strengthening of the Food and Drug Administration's powers and the demise of most radiation-based patent medicines. A Wall Street Journal article (1 Aug. 1990) describing the Byers incident was titled "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off".[7]
source: Radithor - Wikipedia
So bizarre it would make a Good concept Album!
As long as they don't put Eben Byers on the cover....
Some of those would calculate change if you punched in what the customer paid--good way to keep track.
I was a store clerk in the mid 80s.
When some weirdo wanted to pay with a credit card we had to call a special phone number and enter the credit card number on the keypad and then wait for approval. Sometimes the process would take 5 minutes.
For a while, we used one of these things:
I once got a speeding ticket in SC. The officer pulled one of those out and said I could pay now or come back for a court date. I paid on the spot.I was a store clerk in the mid 80s.
When some weirdo wanted to pay with a credit card we had to call a special phone number and enter the credit card number on the keypad and then wait for approval. Sometimes the process would take 5 minutes.
For a while, we used one of these things:
I was a store clerk in the mid 80s.
When some weirdo wanted to pay with a credit card we had to call a special phone number and enter the credit card number on the keypad and then wait for approval. Sometimes the process would take 5 minutes.
For a while, we used one of these things:
Remember…I want my carbons? That was the “copy”. People would steal them so you always took the carbon copy!
