I'm old enough to remember butcher shops used to have sawdust on the floor so customers wouldn't slip on blood from the meat.
Do you have any weird memories of things from the olden days that no longer exist.
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DrWatson · 70-79, M
I remember a small grocery store in the Bronx when I was a kid,in the 1950's.
The owner would sit behind the counter smoking a cigar.
He would lay a paper grocery bag on the counter, and on it he would write the prices of what you were buying. He would then add them up, without an adding machine,. He would double check his work by adding the same column of numbers from bottom to top (as I was being taught to do in school at the time) and then enter the total into a mechanical cash register
After you paid, he put the groceries in the bag and handed them to you
The owner would sit behind the counter smoking a cigar.
He would lay a paper grocery bag on the counter, and on it he would write the prices of what you were buying. He would then add them up, without an adding machine,. He would double check his work by adding the same column of numbers from bottom to top (as I was being taught to do in school at the time) and then enter the total into a mechanical cash register
After you paid, he put the groceries in the bag and handed them to you