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X-Ray Machine Fired Up Again The pioneering device took 90-minute exposures and delivered a radiation dose 1,500 times greater than today's machines. |
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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
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Jones-Roberts Shoes in Lubbock,where Buster Brown's were sold had one of these. It's a wonder my feet haven't fallen off.
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Buster Brown shoes at GulfGate Shopping Center in Houston had them as well. Don't remember if they fit better or not.
ReplyDeleteThe clothing store in my home town had one of these. It was called a Fluoroscope and I was told many a time to quit playing around on it. At the same time my dad had a uranium mine that we would fool around in from time to time and the gummint was setting off A-bombs a few miles upwind. Dad said that the dust in the gutter in front of his shop was a lot better grade than what he was mining. Maybe the Agent Orange I got later countered the ill effects.
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In Mumbai, they sweep the streets for gold dust and sell it. Imagine how much you could get for uranium.
ReplyDeleteMaas Brothers department store, downtown Tampa, mid-fifties. I can still see the foot x-ray machine today in my near sixty year old mind. I never made the Buster Brown connection but that was the most popular brand for kids and Maas Brothers carried the full line. Just another "how did we survive?" story.
ReplyDeleteColumbus Ohio, early 60's... I remember something like that in a couple of the bigger shoe stores.
ReplyDeleteThen again we still had electric trolley busses until the mid-60s too...
It was a real cow-town in those days.
When I was kid living in Carroll County, MD you could find one of these at a shoe store in Westminister. That was in the late 50's.
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