There Can Be Only One

[gildedcentury.livejournal.com]

Child Life April 1938

Comments

[owl-eyes-4ever.livejournal.com]

"invalid" >_O

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

They could just as well have said "cripple."

[urbantravels.livejournal.com]

HOW ON EARTH could they have run an ad for the Radio Nurse without showing a picture of it? It's one of the most famous images in 20th century industrial design! Designed by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi!

http://www.uv201.com/Radio_Pages/zenith_radio_nurse.htm

[meleth.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's really pretty.

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

On one hand, the design is stunning.

On the other hand, it's "AAAAAAAGH! Scary robot head!" All it needs is some antennae, eyes, and a body.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Remove some of the slots and you've got "Gort! Klatu. Barrada. Nicto"

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's beautiful!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

That is a nice design. Much prettier than the baby monitor we had, which I never really trusted so I rarely closed the door on my baby. By the time my second one came along, I didn't use it at all.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Dang, that's really nice looking. I wonder if it was made from Bakelite.

It's kind of a shame the transmitter portion was so humdrum looking.

[urbantravels.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's Bakelite. (It says so on the page I linked to.)

[koneko-wish.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that IS pretty!

[so-low.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love the things I learn through this community. =D

[mswyrr]

"Invalid" -- UGH.

Though, srsly, LOL at the itty-bitty baby who is apparently crying out in Morse Code. SOS, mama!

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[mswyrr]

I'm trying to figure out what an SOS cry would sound like, three shorts, three longs, and three shorts right?

Wah-wah-wah, waaaah waaaaah waaaah, wah-wah-wah!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

The kid is screaming in terror because he's being cared for by a RADIO NURSE! The kids is saying, "where in the hell are my effin' parents?"

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

I just love how the 'invalid' looks remarkably like Whistlers' Mother.

Using the fact that said invalid is wearing a lace morning cap fashionble among married women of the 1860s/1870s as a clue to said invalid's age... makes that supposed person approximately 90. Hell, I'd be in bed at that age myself.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

I think they often put invalids in caps to show they spend all their time in bed and can only make themselves Look Pretty by sticking something on their heads. Otherwise we might just think they were a normal person in a bed, not someone Confined To It.

[charlotterhys.livejournal.com]

I don't know why people are freaking out about the use of the word 'invalid', I thought that was the proper word. And my family had to take care of my mother's mother, who had multiple strokes and could not walk (and thus bedfast) for several years. We tried to keep her with us at home until my mother's health got bad enough that we finally had to find her a nursing home.

Which she now loves and adores because she has friends there. While she was at home, none of her old friends visited her because most of them thought she was dead.

There's never a good choice when it comes to "invalids".

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

As a Real, Live, Actual Invalid (http://www.shespillsthebeans.com/kitchen/2010/08/blogepilogue.html) (bedridden since 2007 because of severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, now thought to be caused by the recently-discovered retrovirus XMRV (http://www.wpinstitute.org/xmrv/xmrv_qa.html), thanks!): This word is what I choose to call myself.

To call me "disabled" is insufficient. Most disabled people are far more physically able than I. I am truly an invalid: a person who is too sick or weak to care for himself or herself (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/invalid). And I am just fine with that word, as are others I know in my same situation.

And the way we handle this at my house is with one of those wireless doorbell chimes, with the button here next to me and the receivers other places in the house. I have a cell phone handy, too. Both are decidedly cheaper than the Radio Nurse, thanks to our good friends in China.

[charlotterhys.livejournal.com]

Thank you for making this comment.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

And those silly "Baby On Board" yuppies thought they were the first to have baby monitors. ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/___sloppyfirsts/]

I had no idea Zenith was around since the thirties.
My parents got me a Zenith VCR eleven years ago, I assumed it was a no-name brand.