Thanks to reporter Ann Wlazelek for her July 24 story about her mother and the shoe X-ray machines. I remember those machines. I’ve sometimes wondered just how bad they were once we knew they were bad ...

A detail from a department store ad from The Washington Post in the 1930s.The ads touted the X-ray machines used to fit shoes for children. Such machines were common until the 1950s. (The Washington ...

Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were once a common sight in Sydney’s shoe shops. But 65 years ago, medical specialists had become alarmed by the dangers the X-ray machines posed to customers and workers.

Have you heard about these newfangled X-ray machines? We should put ’em in everything! We should literally use them to X-ray people’s feet to fit them for shoes. It sounds like a retro-parody cartoon, ...

WASHINGTON - The government sought to assure airline travelers Tuesday that X-raying shoes at security checkpoints was a reliable way of detecting improvised bombs, a claim contradicted by a ...

X-raying shoes at security checkpoints is a reliable way of detecting improvised bombs, a claim contradicted by a Department of Homeland Security study. "Screening shoes by X-ray is an effective ...