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Earlier in the week, I was watching the 70's Spy Flick, "Scorpio" with Burt Lancaster.
At one point, he goes into the Safeway to buy a bottle of booze (such lenient laws back then). In the front of the store, there is circular, roller wheel "track" that exits the store and extends probably partial front of the store. It is probably about the height of mid thigh.
What was that used for? I am sure as a child I saw it in use but now I cannot recall.
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I remember those at one store but it wasn’t Safeway. It was before the electric conveyer belts now at every checkstand. I remember in the 1960s when people had only a tiny freezer in their refrigerator, and we had a rental locker at a place that had a huge walk-in freezer. After a few years they came out with chest and upright freezers and we got one for the garage.
I remember those at one store but it wasn’t Safeway. It was before the electric conveyer belts now at every checkstand. I remember in the 1960s when people had only a tiny freezer in their refrigerator, and we had a rental locker at a place that had a huge walk-in freezer. After a few years they came out with chest and upright freezers and we got one for the garage.
I grew up in the 1960s in an area where hunting was very popular. Everybody had upright or chest freezers. We had an upright freezer (it was an old one with a latching door, the type that was made illegal in the 1950s), and my dad still rented a meat locker, for months after hunting season. Because he had too much meat for the freezer. Then my dad gave up hunting, and we didn't even need the upright freezer anymore, let alone a meat locker. I agree that refrigerator freezers in these days were too small to be useful for anything except maybe storing one box of ice cream and couple of other items.
Earlier in the week, I was watching the 70's Spy Flick, "Scorpio" with Burt Lancaster.
At one point, he goes into the Safeway to buy a bottle of booze (such lenient laws back then).
Both Illinois and Michigan grocery stores sell spirits. There are probably others as well. Many states have no laws against grocery stores' selling wine or beer if not spirits.
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