Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!wfi From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: The topics that were requested... Message-ID: <354@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:47:34 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.354 Posted: Mon Aug 19 10:47:34 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 22:49:20 EDT References: <1849@aecom.UUCP> <319@kitty.UUCP> <724@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Distribution: na Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 23 Summary: In article <724@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) writes: >> Anyone remember the unregulated x-ray machines that shoe stores used >>as a fad in the 40's and 50's? ... > >I remember them well. I also enjoyed looking at the bones in my feet. What I liked even better were the little radiation viewing devices you sometimes found in cereal or crackerjack boxes. They were little plastic tubes with a lens at one end and some of the radium material that goes on watch dials at the other. You could look into it in a dark room and watch the little flashes ... This was back around the early '50s, I guess, when anything nuclear was popular. It seemed like everyone was heading west to hunt for uranium; movies like "The Atomic Kid" with Mickey Rooney were popular; and I had a brand-new fake plastic Geiger counter I'd play with (it came with fake uranium rocks and you'd hold the counter up to the rocks and the counter would click like crazy). I can't remember ANYONE suggesting that radiation might be bad for you in those days. The movie "Atomic Cafe" captures the spirit of the times well. -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly