\nI had never heard of such a thing so as soon as I go home from dinner I did some quick research to find out more about this machine. He thought that the shoe store in Trenton must have had it made for them and that it was one of a kind, my research shows that they were quite common in shoe stores throughout the country in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. The machine was called a fluoroscope and they were used to somehow measure shoe sizes to get a “scientifically accurate” fit. I don’t know how accurate they actually were though. The machines were slowly phazed out of service in the 60’s after they were banned in many states due to the levels of radiation exposure to the user as well as anyone around the machines. That’s a picture of one of the machines to the right. Nice find Dad!
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