market in Calif. still uses 100 year old cash register

[Liberal_in_LA]

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Jack Wood operates the 3-foot-high, brass cash register at Young’s Market on Main Street in Taylorsville (Plumas County) that has rung up sales reliably for nearly 100 years.




100-year-old Cash Register In Taylorsville, CA
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TAYLORSVILLE, Plumas County — High up in the Sierra at the end of a twisty mountain road, this tiny town is going to have a 100th birthday party Saturday for its oldest and most revered resident: a huge, brass cash register.

The birthday gal — and it is a gal, its owner insists — will be working, like it always is. It’s been whirring up totals and clattering open its drawers dependably at Young’s Market on Main Street since the day it was made in 1914 to replace one blown up by robbers.

At Young’s, you fork over the cash and owner Kelly Tan or one of her relatives punches the century-old buttons and cranks the handle on the 3-foot-high register, a wonder of curved surfaces and panels decorated with stamped-in columns and curlicues.
A bell rings. The money drawer pops open, and bills and coins go in and out of Tan’s hands. Done.
The only nod to modern computation at Young’s is a calculator the clerks keep handy for any time a sale goes over $99.99, the maximum possible on the cash register.

[oldandhappy]

1. She is a beauty.

Happy Birthday!!

[NaturalHigh]

2. My grandmother had one of these.

She brought it home from the Montgomery Ward store where she worked after they stopped using it. Very cool.

[Hekate]

3. Built to last -- we used to do that, didn't we?

Happy birthday, old gal.