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People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by dredmorbius »

golergka wrote: post #35
ethbr0 wrote: post #31

The early Blue Man Group [0] shows off-Broadway (before they were the Intel guys) were billed as "Blue Man/Tubes" They'd run corrugated pipe from each seat in the theater to the waiting hall. Which meant that while you were waiting for the next show, you could talk to someone who was watching the current show. Was pretty neat. PS: Also walked out of the show with a nice black eye, after my pre-teen self went down in…

> Blue Man/Tubes Google that on your own risk.

https://feedsee.com/toys/percussion-tubes.html>

Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by dredmorbius »

pests wrote: post #43
OfSanguineFire wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The Real store at Leopoldplatz has a pneumatic tube system that reaches every cash register. Isn’t this pretty common in hypermarkets? I’ve seen systems of pneumatic tubes running from the registers at Auchans or Carrefours in multiple European countries. I imagine that people don’t notice them just because pneumatic tubes are now so little a part of everyday life that one doesn’t even expect to see them.

Hypermarkets?

EU variant of the US "big box store", usually w/ integrated groceries / supermarket + department store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermarket>

Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by dredmorbius »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #41
billyoh wrote: post #5

Reminds me, there was a nightclub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne way back in the 1980s which had a telephone on each table. If you fancied someone on another table you'd dial their table phone and strike up a chat. Can't remember the name of the club but it was on Market Street somewhere. Good times!

This kind of nightclub was the setting for "Dial M For Murder".

Which in turn inspired Arthur C. Clarke's "Dial F for Frankenstein" short story:

https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2137>

Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by treprinum »

Barrin92 wrote: post #33
rodgerd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Germany, up until the rise of the Nazis, was a popular destination for Eastern Jews fleeing pogroms, a centre of sexuality research, cutting-edge culture for music and film. We should do a better job of remembering that, because the reason none of that survives is "the Nazis murdered everyone". Particularly given the direct adoption of Nazi-era phraseology in modern political movements.

Yes, it's sad how little attention that period of German history gets especially abroad. Babylon Berlin is a fantastic German TV production that captures the cultural side of the late Weimar period very well.

I guess its end by hyperinflation followed by nazis is not something people would be proud of.

Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by tempsy »

nicbou wrote: post #15

Berlin had one of the largest pneumatic mail systems in the world. A (highly recommended) Berlin Unterwelten tour covers it. There is still a big, beautiful Rohrpost building in Mitte close to the big Synagogue. The Real store at Leopoldplatz has a pneumatic tube system that reaches every cash register. You can see the tubes go up and along the ceiling. I believe that it's one of the failed Walmart stores from their…

Doesn't every Costco have this?

Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by the_third_wave »

phs318u wrote: post #49
pests wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hypermarkets?

It’s a common European direct translation. In Greece they’re called υπεραγορά. Which translates directly to hypermarket. And I’m pretty sure that ultra > hyper > super in the general case. I’ve yet to see an ultramarket though.

> I’ve yet to see an ultramarket though.

Amazon (et al) using VR equipment comes to mind...

Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

dredmorbius wrote: post #51
golergka wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Blue Man/Tubes Google that on your own risk.

https://feedsee.com/toys/percussion-tubes.html >

I almost bought one of these at a thrift store the other day. They wanted liked $30 for it though.

Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by lotsofpulp »

tempsy wrote: post #55
nicbou wrote: post #15

Berlin had one of the largest pneumatic mail systems in the world. A (highly recommended) Berlin Unterwelten tour covers it. There is still a big, beautiful Rohrpost building in Mitte close to the big Synagogue. The Real store at Leopoldplatz has a pneumatic tube system that reaches every cash register. You can see the tubes go up and along the ceiling. I believe that it's one of the failed Walmart stores from their…

Doesn't every Costco have this?

I have never seen it in a Costco in the US.

Re: People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

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Post by jamiek88 »

gonzo wrote: post #21
billyoh wrote: post #5

Reminds me, there was a nightclub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne way back in the 1980s which had a telephone on each table. If you fancied someone on another table you'd dial their table phone and strike up a chat. Can't remember the name of the club but it was on Market Street somewhere. Good times!

The club in Newcastle was Tuxedo Junction. there was a short-lived clone of same in Las Vegas in the early/mid 1980s as well.

Is that where the tuxedo princess (the revolving dancefloor boat!) name came from?
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