WEIRD stuff from the golden era

[Shangas]

...is that friend still alive?

 

[fashion frank]

While en-masse preventative extraction at 21 was never a popular or common thing in the US, it was considered a fact of life here that most people would lose at least some of their natural teeth by their thirties -- and it was quite rare for someone over fifty to have all, or even most, of their natural teeth: flouridated drinking water didn't become common until the sixties and seventies, which made a major difference in the prevalence of tooth decay.

One doesn't think of dentists as colorful characters, but the Era had E. L. "Painless" Parker, a flamboyant huckster who franchised an entire chain of associated dental clinics using his "painless" method of extractions. "Painless" traveled the country giving lectures on his system, illustrating them with a large pail of extracted teeth:

"Next!"

WOW he looks like the Col. Sanders of dentistry with a little side show hawker thrown in !

All the Best , Fashion Frank

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Another thing we did in science class was put little square asbestos-covered mesh pads on a tripod on top of our bunsen burners to hold the beakers.

I remember using these in the early seventies. We threw them like a Frisbee when the teacher left the classroom.

 

[Story]

A 1944 Electromagnetic Radiation Poster Makes Learning Retro Chic
http://www.geek.com/science/electro...c-from-1944-is-beautiful-informative-1563991/

 

[Story]

Transparent "Ghost" Car Sells for $308,000
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/08/01/transparent-ghost-car-sells-for-308000/
Wonder Woman officially jealous.

 

[I Adore Film Noir]

Arsenic wafers for the complexion:

 

[Two Types]

Outdoor Baby Cages

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sNCo-qnEv...icle-2178140-1430FDD0000005DC-972_634x768.jpg

Let's face it, everyone living in a flat above the ground floor knows that it's essential that a baby should get outside for some fresh air!