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6. When I was a kid, you went to the shoe store and there was a device. You put your feet on it.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 03:45 PM
Jan 2020

Then an image of your food would appear on a piece of paper. This was to tell the shoe store what correction your feet needed. Problem was, the store had no stock to correct any deformation. It was just for show.


Then, came the radium paint. You could buy it in hardware stores. I got some to paint the wall plate on the light switch in my bedroom so's I could find it at night. I don't remember what else I painted. That was in the 1950s.


There was also a radium site in West Orange N.J. that later became a superfund.

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