Many of the greatest scientific discoveries are eventually changed and adapted for more practical and widespread use. Since its discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, the use of the X-ray has become ...

History contains many examples of medical functions performed by frighteningly unqualified people. Barbers once were also dentists. Whoever was the oldest lady in the village was also a midwife. And x ...

Not many museums of our size have a Fluoroscope for fitting shoes. You remember the Fluoroscope — that strange looking machine located inside many shoe stores. Ours is of metal construction covered in ...

My mom kept me safe from everything, until cancer showed her she couldn’t. It’s 1968, and I’m five-years-old. My mom and I are shoe shopping at Hodge’s Shoes. I can’t decide what is more fascinating – ...

There was a time when you knew the appropriate footwear to wear based on the venue or the event. As a child or teenager, when going to school, church, funeral, restaurant, or social event, you ...

Have you heard about these newfangled X-ray machines? We should put ’em in everything! We should literally use them to X-ray people’s feet to fit them for shoes. It sounds like a retro-parody cartoon, ...

There have been popular figures in advertising through the years, and most of us can remember at least some who were seen in national campaigns. Clara Peller used to ask “Where’s the beef?” in Wendy’s ...