• LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      The world is such a fascinating place. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen a bank WITHOUT a drive thru. I’ve lived in big cities and out in the sticks.

      • Scrollone@feddit.it
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        4 months ago

        In Europe I’ve never seen a drive through ATM (in fact, the only drive throughs I’ve seen here are McDonald’s). In the US I was surprised to see many.

    • Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      I once saw one in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. What a fucking shithole that was. I couldn’t even walk anywhere from the hotel. There were no sidewalks. Fucking grocery bags from Walmart flying all over town, the ridiculous shit you have to go through just to buy a beer. No thanks, never again.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      4 months ago

      I worked at a rural community Bank for a while. Many branches were in buildings that literally predated cars and had no drivethrus. Honestly the couple of branches that were built within the last 50 years were jarring because they were so modern compared to the frontier town banks that have been banks since around the time the region gained statehood

    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      I don’t know if they’re still around, but when I was a kid and ATMs were still kind of new there were drive thrus at banks where you interacted with a teller using a speaker and a pneumatic tube for sending/receiving.

      My mom would let me operate the tube from the back seat, I thought it was cool as shit.

      • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        as a kid i enjoyed rolling up on my bike and pressing the “Send” button and then getting the bored bank teller response on the loudspeaker: “uh… thank you?”

        still sad that pneumatic tubes are not used for transportation.

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            4 months ago

            it’s been a fantastic cinematic device in some of the best, most cheesiest american movies. brazil. and total recall. that’s two!

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      4 months ago

      After covid I could go thru the drive thru for food, booze, the bank, pharmacy, tabacco, car wash, coffee, and for pickup (they bring it out to the car) groceries and most restaurants.