Vintage Cash Registers

I have briefly mentioned the vintage cash registers in one or two previous posts.  They were ornate, large, looking almost clumsy as compared to the newer ones of today...but they had such an appeal!  I can still remember the sounds they made even today, and this is going back about 45 years, as I was around 10 years old when I was in an F W Woolworth store with my father.  He was buying me a colouring book with the picture of a lion on it.  Actually, it wasn't a photo, more like a drawing, but I remember listening to the sound of the cash register...it was large and brown and made such a pleasant jingle sound.  I loved it.  

Here are some photos of vintage cash registers.  The photos I am sharing are not of the "ornate" cashes, but nonetheless had appeals all of their own.  The first photo of the large brown cash register is a 1949 National Cash Register (NCR) model.  This is exactly, if not very close to the cash that I remember as a little girl.  

This second photo is of a 1945 model.

This last photo is of a 1921 model.

Back in those days, when the number buttons of the cash were pushed, (as I recall), they stayed down...until the larger button on the right (first photo) was pressed, then the buttons popped back up.  These are my memories of cash registers from days gone by.

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