Me, born 1940. First job in an F.W. Woolworth store when I was 15. Springy wooden floors over the stock room downstairs. Soda fountain. Women's ready to wear up in the mezzanine. Opposite the mezz was the cashier/management office area with a large sliding window looking down into the store. Constant 'wooshing' of the tubes on busy days.
Never saw any cats or food in the tubes though. lol

to send paperwork from one department to another. It was actually quite efficient. Now I see them only at the drive-up window at the bank.

Nassau County Clerk's Office.
I worked in the Document Room, early '70s, where all papers for court documents were noted in big books called libers. When we needed an older liber, we had to write requests on slips that went into the tubes. A clerk down in the depths would deliver the book later.
I still remember how nutty I thought the system was - Steampunk before I had a word for it.

Cant remember the name of the store, but the highlight of any shopping trip was the whoosh of the pneumatic tubes.

I saw some in use fairly recently, but darned if I can remember where. I was surprised to see them, that I know.

Those were the good ole days.

They also had noisy metal typewriters, copy boys, printers that wore traditional square hats made of folded newspaper, the whole shebang. During my 11 years there, they modernized quickly to computers and cell phones.

for sending/receiving specimens for diagnostic testing and storage.
I learned to dread the sound of incoming capsules- "Moana" just laid an egg (the incoming capsules through the tubes are preceded by a moaning rattle followed by, Fwump!).

Floor to lab, that kind of thing. Every now and then a urine or blood sample will open and they have to shut the system down to disinfect. Guess banks still use them, too.