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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:49:03 PM EDT
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Yes. Aunt of mine died in one. I remember visitingwhen I was little, they had a hospital wing with about 40 of them in use.
Gave me nightmares for years. 
ETA Google says that there are about 10 people in the US still living in one. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:54:39 PM EDT
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It's a prop from the movie The Big Bus
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Posted: 12/19/2016 3:58:09 PM EDT
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When I was a kid this was every parents fear come summertime. i even knew a few kids who had to use one for awhile. Seeing kids who had this disease was pretty normal when I was a kid. A cousin of mine survived it.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:02:37 PM EDT
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I still reference the old iron lung in off hand jokes.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:03:43 PM EDT
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Sure do. I have one. Icy Ball made by Croswley.  Dammit, you're not supposed to do that on the first couple of pages. 
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:04:17 PM EDT
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Looks like one to me. I'm going with this, although i've never actually seen one. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:22:14 PM EDT
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The prototype for Michael Jackson's bed?
And yes, I know what it is. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:26:20 PM EDT
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Dammit, you're not supposed to do that on the first couple of pages. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Sure do. I have one. Icy Ball made by Croswley. Dammit, you're not supposed to do that on the first couple of pages. Sorry. I'll do better in the future.  
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:29:20 PM EDT
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We put a trailer hitch and wheels on one so mom & dad could drag little Timmy around behind the Gold Wing.
It was magnificent. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:30:16 PM EDT
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No, but basic knowledge allows me to know what this is, and what it was used for. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:33:03 PM EDT
[#11]
I know what it is. Never seen one in person, and I doubt many were still in common use by the time I was born. Intubation was far more common by then.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:33:10 PM EDT
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Sure. Are you old enough to remember what this is? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a1UkuqeY88o/maxresdefault.jpg Icy-ball refrigerator. Minus the cabinet |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:36:31 PM EDT
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With Rotary's effort and now with a grant from Bill Gates Polio cases in the world are less than 100 whit almost half of those in Pakistan. Hopefully within 5 years iron lungs will not be needed anymore. . |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:45:54 PM EDT
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Sure, and I still remember some of the iron lung jokes we told as kids. All of us kids in our family who had been born by then had polio. My Sis and I had it the worst in the family (but not as bad as many did), but aren't doing too bad now later in life.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:47:33 PM EDT
[#15]
Standard issue for guys working the indoor ranges in Kabul.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:57:13 PM EDT
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Iron Lung? I really liked their first album. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 4:58:38 PM EDT
[#17]
37, and I've been known to pick up a book once in a while. So yes.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:00:16 PM EDT
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Lady here was in one almost her entire life from early childhood. Just passed about 5 years ago. Hard to imagine living like that for 60+ years
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:01:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:02:02 PM EDT
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Snow cone maker. LOL, I got the reference. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:03:30 PM EDT
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Sure. Are you old enough to remember what this is? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a1UkuqeY88o/maxresdefault.jpg It's a 'Shocker' sex toy. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:03:54 PM EDT
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Yes I am. More morden ones were plexiglass, but still had the manual pump. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:04:59 PM EDT
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Yep. Relic from a sad time. Still, it beat the alternative. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:07:28 PM EDT
[#24]
Yes, and I have met three people, just a little older than I, who have lingering effects of polio. I am 58.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:10:40 PM EDT
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This thread made me sad. I had a friend when I was a kid that had to spend a lot of time in the IL, one day he never made it out.
RIP Tommy, hadn't thought about you in a while but I never forgot.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:17:39 PM EDT
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We lived in terror of Poliomyelitis during my early life. There was a dedicated ward in our small town hospital. The machine made an eerie ominous sound
I was 15 when the Salk vaccine became available and 21 when the oral Sabin version hit the market. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:17:48 PM EDT
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iron lung
I remember the fund raising videos to complete the fight against polio This was in the early sixties under my mother's feet as she ironed clothes while watching soap operas and smoked Kent cigarettes True fact: there were once ironing boards with built in ashtrays |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 5:32:36 PM EDT
[#28]
Michael Jackson signature series sleep number bed. Click the radio icon and type "Rush" for 10% off.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 7:56:42 PM EDT
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Michael Jackson signature series sleep number bed. Click the radio icon and type "Rush" for 10% off.  so wrong...
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Posted: 12/19/2016 7:58:50 PM EDT
[#30]
Yep. It's a snow cone maker.
Really though, I know what it is. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 7:59:51 PM EDT
[#31]
My grandfather brother stayed in one of those for 3 or 4 years.
He died two months ago at 86. Never walked after his 4th birthday. He invented the first set of hand petals to drive his truck and many say the first electric wheelchair out of a GE electrac lawn mower. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:01:54 PM EDT
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Iron lung
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:06:08 PM EDT
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Diddle chamber.... WHO'S NEXT??? |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:06:36 PM EDT
[#34]
Early American Penis Pump?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:09:14 PM EDT
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No, but basic knowledge allows me to know what this is, and what it was used for. That. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:11:50 PM EDT
[#36]
Yes, and the terrible jokes involving them. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:13:42 PM EDT
[#37]
Sadly yes.
Even known survivors |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:15:29 PM EDT
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Old school fleshlight. Lol 
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:17:02 PM EDT
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Arthur Digby Sellers doesn't write anymore. "AND A GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR!" |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:20:22 PM EDT
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Iron Lung? It looks like the iron lung the pianist was in on Fernwood Tonight.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:26:09 PM EDT
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Didn't Jethro Bodine write a song about it?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:27:55 PM EDT
[#42]
I'm only 37, but I remember reading about them and seeing them in movies.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:28:36 PM EDT
[#43]
Yes
I remember our parents driving down main street in our small town and doctors(?) handed out sugar cubes to kids with the vaccine in them |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:30:16 PM EDT
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Do they still use those things?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:30:32 PM EDT
[#45]
1950's electric vagina?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:31:44 PM EDT
[#46]
The only bedroom furniture at my place is an Iron Lung
0:55  The Sessions Movie CLIP - The Wrong Way to Start Off (2012) - Helen Hunt Movie HD |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:32:50 PM EDT
[#47]
I've known people who were in them at one time.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:38:18 PM EDT
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Sure...but I thought this was going to be an aluminum ice tray though. +1 Aluminum ice tray never crossed my mind though. Lol |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:49:44 PM EDT
[#49]
I'm 73 and saw lots of photos like that in childhood. We were really afraid of polio.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 8:58:16 PM EDT
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Yep. Relic from a sad time. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Iron Lung? Yep. Relic from a sad time. However making a comeback due to anti-vaxxers. |
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