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The pneumatic tube mail system in New York City
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Re: The pneumatic tube mail system in New York City
#32Similar to the Alameda burrito tunnel that sends fresh Mission burritos to NYC: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
In Christchurch, New Zealand, we have a cafe that sends you your burger through a pneumatic tube system... Ton Scott did a video about it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTHZLKFblKo
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#33Watching my parents go through the drive in bank teller using pneumatic tubes to send items back and forth is such a fun cool memory I have from my childhood. In a funny way, it still feels way more “sci-fi future tech” than pressing a touch screen and wait 4 seconds for a change to happen… or not.
Those bank-teller tubes are still in use in the Denver suburbs.
Re: The pneumatic tube mail system in New York City
#34Similar to the Alameda burrito tunnel that sends fresh Mission burritos to NYC: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
No-one has thought to just open a burrito joint in NYC?
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#35Was probably the inspiration for the movie “Brazil”, released in 1985 where the pneumatic tube system is part of the complicated and extensive "Central Services" administration. Incidentally Brazil is for today's digital dystopia what Koyaanisqatsi (1982) is for environmental instability.
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#36Watching my parents go through the drive in bank teller using pneumatic tubes to send items back and forth is such a fun cool memory I have from my childhood. In a funny way, it still feels way more “sci-fi future tech” than pressing a touch screen and wait 4 seconds for a change to happen… or not.
I used to love to go to the bank with my parents or a friend's parents and beg to get to put the tube in.
Also remember the local science museum had a pneumatic tube system to play with and we'd sit there with that for some time.
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#39> The system, which was located 4 to 6 feet below the city streets, was created and owned by private companies, to which the city paid rent and labor. When did we collectively lose the idea that such a model is even possible?
More to the point, who owns them now and can we pull fibre through them?
Only fragments exist; they don't form complete lines anymore.
(Besides, these are 100+ year old iron tubes; there are much better things to run fiber through. NYC does not have a shortage of buried, half-forgotten infrastructure.)
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd think they would have figured out a way to send pizza back the other way, given California's deficit.
And some New York-style Chinese food. Bay food might be authentic but sometimes you just need some properly deep-fried sweet-and-sour pork.
Hey man you might be shadow banned.
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They are v.reasonable on the whole.