Journey with me back to the 1950’s when the back of a comic book offered its readers a treasure trove of fantastic items; toy soldiers, sea monkeys, ant farms and the must have item for any adventurous boy, x-ray glasses. The advertisement made no claims but asked the question “Are you really seeing through those clothes?” The glasses produced a hazy shadow-like form and in no way satisfied a lad’s desire to see through clothing…for scientific purposes, of course. We did not have the internet and life still held a few mysteries that today’s kids will never experience. So the glasses ended up in a drawer with me lamenting the fact I wasted my $1.49 and could have had a box of soldiers or a secret decoder ring.
Dang!