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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
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Subject: Re: The topics that were requested...
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:47:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 10:47:34 1985
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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