Shoe Fluoroscope
November9
Here is something I don’t remember – the Shoe Fluoroscope. The Shoe Fluoroscopes were X-ray machines that were installed in shoe stores in the early 20th century. There were not removed until the early 1960s. The fluoroscopes were really a gimmick, they were marketed as a better way to measure feet and those provide a better fitted shoe. However, a simple measurement would have sufficed.
Unfortunately, the devices exposed customers to approximately 25 to 70 rems per minute of radiation. Compare this to the allowed radiation of a nuclear plant worker – 5 rems per year!
i spent many a happy hour looking at my feet through one of these while my mom was shopping- who knew?? i;m surprised my feet don’t glow in the dark!
I have battled cancer, starting in 1954, with foot cancer, progressed to breast cancer. Viewing my feet in a flourescope was regular entertainment. Wondering if their is any compensation from Dr Scholl’s or even an apolopgy. They were allowed long after the dangers were exposed.