Shoe Fitting X-Ray Device

DublinWriter

I remembered recently when I was a kid in the late 1970's, going with my mum to get shoes fitted and the shop on Talbot St. has a very old looking device, in which you slipped your foot in the bottom and there was a viewfinder up top in which you could see a real-time X-Ray of your foot.

I googled it recently, and found the device...

http://www.mtn.org/quack/devices/shoexray.htm

I mean...how dangerous is that!!!

Dan133269

lol count your lucky stars you're still with us. I remember a foot measuring thing in Shaws years ago where these four metal plates closed in on your foot and thing stopped as soon as they touched it, kinda scary at first when you're a child

Kolodny

Both of those sound scary! When I was a kid, you just your feet strapped to a big plastic block with canvas straps and slidey bits at the front and back. Looked like some sort of psychedelic sandals.

GAA widow

Dan133269 wrote:

lol count your lucky stars you're still with us. I remember a foot measuring thing in Shaws years ago where these four metal plates closed in on your foot and thing stopped as soon as they touched it, kinda scary at first when you're a child

Initially Dublinwriter I thought you meant the same type of machine as Dan - I remember those too. They had them in the Clarks shops and they measured the width of your foot as well as the length - that machine was only used for serious shoebuying - beginning of school year/communion/confirmation.

It reminded me of those closing in walls you'd see in spy films or Maxwell Smart etc. I really used to think that my socks would get caught in it or something.