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I'm old enough to remember the shoe fitting x-ray machines in the shoe shop. You put your feet in the bottom of the machine and looked at the screen on top and you could see the bones in your toes wiggling.

 

I must have seen one of the last ones still around, as they've long since been banned on safety grounds. As a toddler I would spend ages looking at by bones whilst my mum was buying new shoes for my brother.

 

This kind of thing -

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

 

https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm

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Jeez you must be ancient Nagel.:hihi:

Never heard of them. Very interesting to see.

 

Haha, yeah ancient :|

 

I remember the shoe fitting fluoroscope from a shoe shop in Liverpool around 1963. I think some survived until the Seventies, but they're now sought after collectors items.

 

Does anyone remember them from Sheffield?

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