Each book in the library had a card in a pocket attached to inside cover. And each user had a number of pocket tickets with their name and address on. When you borrowed the book they took the card and put it in one of your pocket tickets and put that in a rack in date order. The number of mini folders with your name determined how many books you could borrow,
Still a thing in Italian supermarkets!
Still current, though electronically, at Customer Services at IKEA in Theale. And similarly at Argos, the last time I went to one.
In many places the concept of a delicatessen in a supermarket is an anachronism.
I remember there was one in the shoe shop in Bangor (N. Wales) in the 1970s. My father told me that they were dangerous because of the X-rays, and I think this particular one had been decommissioned by that time. However, I believe the danger was more to the shop assistants who were exposed to the radiation every day of their working lives, rather than to customers having their feet X-rayed once or twice a year.
Is the machine in the photo I've linked to the same as the one you remember?
I remember having my feet measured by a machine when I was quite small and I also remember feeling quite anxious about it!
Is this is still a thing? lol. Slightly OT, I remember Mrs Trackman at fish counters in supermarkets (is that still a thing too?) negotiating a price on a huge full Salmon that would last us all a week!
Seen them in large post offices.
Morrisons still have them, when Tesco got rid of all the counters fish was the first to go
Think it was Sainsbury's IIRC.
I think at one time the Travel Centre in Glasgow Central station had a number system in preference to traditional queuing.
You still get them on Jet2.
In my mothers library theyn still do that if you take your books via staff and not via machine.
Yes I can remember that back in the 1950’s/1960’s after my mother had her hair permed.
My mum used Fairy Liquid on my hair during my weekly bath.The original Vosene hair shampoo. I remember back in the 1950’s/1960’s that when mum washed your hair on Sunday night (school day tomorrow) your eyes stung for hours afterwards.
The formula has now changed as the original shampoo was thought to be carcinogenic
I used to put washing up liquid in when mum wasn’t watching for extra bubbles.
Perming. Trying to remember the chemistry of this; a perm (essentially making a permanent change to the hair) involves something to do with sulfur bonds in the keratin. You add something to the hair which 'breaks' the bonds, set the hair into the style desired and then get the bonds to reconnect.
I used Birmingham Central Post Office the other day for the first time, and they had one of those machines that issued tickets, with a big screen calling people to the counter when your number was ready.
"We haven't got a number 6 Boss...."
Gone the way of so many municipal putting greens and tennis courts - and of course the much-feared park keeper.
That's the one: an old favourite of mine. Just goes to show though that jokes can fade as their subject matter disappears over the horizon.Treasures lost. I remember being chased by the park keeper (which was also a staple scenario in the popular comics of the day - Beano, Dandy, Topper and Beezer).
Friday nights
With multiple daily deiveries in urban areas, same day replies were possible between addresses using the same sorting office.
