The Cash Register (Bronx, NY, early-mid 1970s)

When we lived in Montreal, in 1969, we saw this old NCR brass cash register in a shop, for $50. A little ahead of our time, we knew we had to have it. It worked really well. The hard part was getting it home--we finally convinced a cab driver to help us get it into his trunk, and help us get it home. It always took a lot of planning as we moved it from apartment to apartment during the 1970s, since it was really heavy. At some point, we just gave up and sold it to one of the used restaurant supply places on The Bowery.