Century-old cash register returns to Lake City

A cash register custom-built for a Lake City shoe store in 1915 is back in downtown Lake City more than a century later.

The massive bronze register is on display right next to the checkout counter at Lakeside Antiques on Center Street, just around the corner from where it’s believed to have been used to ring up shoe purchases at the A.T. Abraham shoe store.

Abraham, known at least in advertisements as “Abraham the Shoeman,” ordered the register in 1915 from the National Cash Register company, then of Dayton, Ohio.

 


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