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echo: memories
to: Joe Mackey
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2011-09-01 13:57:00
subject: Re: Trail blazers

-=> Joe Mackey wrote to FRANK SCHEIDT <=-

 >> I saw an ad from the '50s a while ago for some woman's cosmetics that
 >> contained some sort of radio active ingredient that was supposed to be a
 >> beauty enhancer. During the ad a Geiger counter was waved over the models
 >> face with the clicking sounds.


Sounds like a candidate for Bruce Sterling's ATOMPUNK mailing list, a
repository of all things related to 50's atomic-age culture.

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2008/12/here-comes-atom/

--kW

 
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