I was watching a commercial on TV of the Afflack duck trying on shoes. It was kind of cute to see him dance when he looked in the mirror at the different shoes he tried on. Humorous.
I had a recollection of buying shoes with my mother in Chicago at a department store. In those days they had a large machine that did an instant ex-ray of your feet in the shoes you tried on. The ex-ray appeared green in color. I had not remembered that for a lot of years....almost sixty! Pretty good memory, wouldn't you say?
This is an exact ex-ray machine. The three scopes to see the fit were one for the salesman, the parent and the one whose shoes were being tried on. I had not idea there would be an image to find online! I struck pay dirt with this little historical memory.
My mother would take us to a department store like Sears, or Goldblatt's and the sales person would fit the shoes. However after a while the government agency that regulates those kinds of things took them off the market because of the exposure to the ex-ray and radiation waves. I think this was about the late 1940s. It was quite the apparatus and it was kind of neat to see my feet and wiggle my toes. It was an amazing process to see them instantaneously like a movie film.
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