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Date Posted: 02:45:06 03/12/11 Sat
Author: BB
Subject: Bunions - and something more startling

I don't know anyone of my generation or younger who has bunions. My mother's were horrendous. She blamed them on fashionable shoes of the 1940s and 1950s. I'm not sure if that's correct or if there was an underlying genetic cause. Her mother had bunions too.

My mum was so worried about distorted feet that she insisted on buying Clark's shoes for my wee brother and I when we were boys. The highlight of a visit to the shoe shop in Bathgate was sticking our feet in the Fluoroscope and seeing our own toe-bones wiggling in the new shoes.

That was in the 1960s and early 1970s. I've just discovered that Fluoroscopes were withdrawn from American shoe shops in 1950 because of concerns about the X-ray exposure. Bloody hell! Until I learnt this I had fond memories of those ghostly green skeletal images. I often thought about sticking other body parts through the hole in the machine to see what would be revealed. My brother's head for example. Just as well it remained a childhood fantasy, as this video clip makes clear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwbJS74OKes&feature=related

Fluoroscopes are now museum pieces. They were exciting though. Anybody else remember them?

BB

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