Freebies

[archeobabe]

Does anyone remember the comic books that was given out when you bought a pair of shoes.  I think the store was is Howard.  The owners has them in a box on the floor. 

[Roma Jean Turner]

I remember the shoe store in Chanute giving out a comic book at times.  Maybe with our Buster Brown's.  God I remember how we used to run in the store and stick our feet under the x-ray so we could see the bones in out feet.

[Diane Amberg]

Now the doctors would have a fit if those foot x-ray machines were still around. The x-rays were very powerful. I was only allowed to do it once a year. It's a wonder we didn't grow extra eyes or something on our toes.

[W. Gray]

The History Channel had a program within the last couple years about how those machines came to be in stores and why they were taken out.

One store on the square in Independence, MO, had a machine outside their door unattended for anyone to check and see if their shoes fit properly.

No one at the time knew there was a problem but it was not long before they did.

[Ms Bear]

There are still patches of petunias that bloom in the pasture of some elderly friends of mine that were started from seeds packets that were a premium but I don't know what the product was.  Another woman here had periwinkles that she had started from seed that came in Oatmeal and they were started in the early 40's.