Locations - Hong Kong

Hong Kong was at one time a colony of Britain and is now a special administrative region of China.

HONG KONG. A stationery store. "There was a stationary [sic] store in Central, too, that ran their money the same way.  A wire ran overhead from the sales clerk, along which the package of money and sales receipt flew at a measured pace.  It was my first look at basic mechanical engineering.  It made a click and hum noise as the money went in, and then the facination as it came out again to the sales clerk. The ceiling was a maze of these wires, and I considered it a real treat to be allowed on those shopping trips." Annelisec in posting to Gwulo website, 3/2/2010
•"It has been a long time but I vaguely remember there was one that had the pulley system either in the former Man Yee Building or perhaps it was the Che San Stationery Shop on Pottinger St?" Moddsey in posting to Gwulo website, 3/2/2010

HONG KONG. Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co., Telephone Hopuse, Nathan Road, Kowloon. "At ground floor level there was Whiteaway's department store - one of two places mothers could (unfortunately) buy Clark's school shoes for their children. One of the features of the store was an overhead pulley system for the assistant to send payment to the cashier sat on high presiding in a wooden pulpit affair....bizarre." Vanessa in posting to Gwulo website, 3/2/2010

Photograph from Uwants website. The location is not entirely clear but appears to be Li Jiayuan's shop.