My friend and I found this oddity at thrift store in Escondido, CA last week (on a day trip to the Lawrence Welk Museum!) If it wasn't for the prohibitive $14.95 price tag, I would have scooped it up - lord knows, that thing wasn't going anywhere. I'm sure it's still sitting there, strange booklet and all:
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Looks to me like it's an ancestor to the DermaWand.
I'LL BUY IT!! Do you have the # for the thrift shop? It could be a great prop, you see!
It reminds me of the Relaxiciser my mother had in the mid-60s. Electrodes you hooked up to your thighs, tummy, arms, and it gave little electrical pulses that were supposed to tone muscles and help you lose weight.
Mom said it HURT, and of course it didn't work. I recall her lying in bed, twitching away and going OUCH.
The woman in the booklet appears to be so relaxed that I fear she may be dead.
Look at her!
Would you?
That's cool - the Time Reversal Machine.
It's a whole Twilight Zone ep ... a failed Time Reversal machine sitting on a shelf!
Mavis, I will find out. My friend wrote the name and address of the place down. It was gigantic.
Eve - they still have those. Only now they go by the name Slendertone.
They have it for your belly and your arms.
I spend way too much time and money on HSN. Haven't been taken in by this one, however. But mom bought us both a DermaWand.
The Relaxiciser sounds like what Peggy tested on "Mad Men"! A "personal" muscle massager!
Thanks for the info on the shop! I'll call 'em tomorrow!
Love those thrift stores! I'm convinced we'll one day find cancer's cure behind some old books in a thrift store...or Jimmy Hoffa.
Only $14.95? Someone better go right back there and grab this thing. You'll kick yourself if you don't.
The photos do look disturbingly like morgue shots, and those line drawings are just like the ones on the forms used by the coroner to indicate where the bullet/knife/icepick went in/came out.
The booklet alone is worth $14.95!
I want one! I've never found anything as exciting in an Op Shop (what we call thrift shops down here in Oz), though I did find a Liberace concert program yesterday.
Which you bought, I hope!
Of course I did. It sits glimmering on my desk as I write.
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