Re: Phosphorescence

Posted by HH56 On 2011/6/11 16:31:34

I remember those shoe machines very well. There was one in a store in downtown in El Paso. Believe the name was Popular Dry Goods. When I was a kid, the folks would make the trip to shop & visit Moms sister maybe every other month or so. Sometimes one of my friends would go with us, other times we'd grab my aunt and a cousin or two and hit the stores. Whomever I was with, we would make a big issue of going to the shoe dept so we could see our toes wiggle. As I recall, there was no key or anything needed to make that particular one work. More than once the adults got occupied leaving us kids to get into trouble and more than once we were chased out by a salesman. They finally got rid of the machine in the mid to late 50's.