A stroll down memory lane .....

Anyone remember these, I sure do, used one on a number of  occasions. The one I remember was in a shoe store not too far from where we lived, he sold Buster Brown Shoes. You would put your new shoes on, place them in that middle opening, the shoe salesman would get on one side and Mom peered in the other. It gave them an X-ray view of how the shoes fit. Probably also gave off some dangerous x-rays.

Buster Brown also had a radio show which I listened to often. "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a  shoe. That's my dog Tige, he lives there too."

I doubt there are too any left who remember those x-ray machines that were in the  shoe stores, I think perhaps in the late 30's or early 40's. Not sure if they were in use post-war or not.

I can still picture that neighborhood shoe store on Brown Street in Dayton, Ohio. There were a number of stores in the area, and the area had its own name. The Brown Street Bus Barn was also in that area. I think it was called the Rubicon Area. Maybe  someone knows and can correct me. It was probably similar to a strip mall, but they didn't know about them in those days.