Have you ever tried to explain

[madamesilverspurs]

an iron lung to someone who's never heard of the thing? I got to do that earlier this week, and it made me think that things are so much better than they were when I was a kid in the 1950s. Yep, I'll keep pushing for open doors for health care.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Rent "The Monolith Monsters." nt

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. I cannot BELIEVE

that someone else remembers that movie.

I was afraid of rocks for a long time after that, but the kid in the iron lung was too close for comfort. I hadn't gotten my polio vaccination very long before this movie came out.

Remember not being allowed to go swimming because of a polio scare?

[pkdu]

3. This one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Cg2xbenR4

Cheers
P

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Oh, man .........

That music, that guy's voice, the black-and-white! They were SO scary!

I loved them.

See this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rfp56py4GE&feature=related

[pkdu]

6. I just realised that has gotten waaay off topic from where the OP wanted to go

sorry madamesilverspurs...

but here is what had me shitting myself from behind the sofa (age 3) in 1966.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duM62eArGI&feature=related

Cheers
PKDU

[Captain Hilts]

4. I 'watched' most of the movie from under my seat at the base theatre.

Scared the shit outta me. And I was scared of rocks and iron lungs.

I was only 4. that's my excuse.

I'm a kid of 49 and a half, so the polio vaccine was around before I was.

My mom knew Jonas Salk. In reference to medicine, he used to say, "Why do you think we call it 'practice'..."