Beautifully done.

The machine pictured below is one of many that were installed in the shoe departments of stores throughout the U.S. in the 1940s and 50s. The machine X-rayed the feet, returning an image of the foot bones within the shoe, presumably illustrating the podiatric superiority (or the lack thereof) of footware. At one point as many of 10,000 of these units may have been in use.

Viewing ports were provided – one for the subject, another for the salesperson,and another for Mom, Dad or Aunt Bertha.

Due to the vagaries of construction, many of them leaked–with consequences unknown to the hapless salespersons–but which can be guessed at.

As a trivial aside, the designer of the machine, Brooks Stevens, also designed the Oscar Meyer “Wienermobile”

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Maybe you can pick up an on-sale case of Diet Mountain Dew on the way.

Walmart, now with coffins.

Michelle and Jim Bob

DUGGAR BABY NO. 19 ARRIVES EARLY
Michelle Duggar had emergency C-section; delivers 1 lb, 6 oz Josie Brooklyn

By Mike Celizic
TODAYshow.com contributor

Make that “19 Kids and Counting” — but not before something of a scare due to an emergency C-section and a very premature birth.

Michelle Duggar, America’s most famous supermom and star of the TLC reality series “18 Kids and Counting” (which is due for a title change), gave birth to her 19th child Thursday evening.

The infant wasn’t due until March 18, but after Michelle Duggar seemingly recovered from a weekend attack of gallstones and elevated blood pressure, she was rushed into an emergency C-section at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences….

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