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Posted: 30 Apr 2019


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museum
Australia
NSW
general store
Tingha
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Wing Hing Long
underwear
clothing


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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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 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne club
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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