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Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is "The Chiro-Picker"
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio guest blogger
This time I feel I’ve come across a really special chiropractic antique!
It’s a student desk lamp from the Palmer School of Chiropractic.
The lamp was made by Robert Schwartz & Bro from New York City under the manufacture name SROBERT. It is heavy-duty cast iron and designed quite elegantly.
The first feature that caught my eye was the words “Science and Art,” with a carved owl between them. Up above the owl’s head is the Palmer PSC crest embossed in a beautifully detailed coin. I thought the owl might be the mascot of Palmer’s radio station WHO. But this seemed kind of odd since the WHO was located in Des Moines, while Palmer’s original station, the WOC, was located on the PSC campus in Davenport. Also, I had a feeling this lamp predated the station WHO which Palmer acquired in 1931. Then I just assumed the owl represented wisdom, enlightenment, and education.
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Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio guest blogger
Well, it’s Halloween time again!
“This year I chose to dress as BJ Palmer. I felt I could duplicate his look from the 1920’s but becoming ‘Depression Era BJ’ was not easy. You can’t exactly go into a costume shop and ask for their ‘Fountainhead of Chiropractic’ rental. This is a costume you have to build piece by piece….”
Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. Everything looks different for awhile. The leaves turn to bright colors and fall to the ground. Pumpkins and cornstalks decorate homes. And skeletons and ghosts walk the streets at night trick-or-treating or on their way to a party.
It’s a fun, unusual time! And it’s a creative time.
“You can become someone else for a day and be encouraged to ham it up.”
I actually still have nightmares that Halloween Night has arrived, and I haven’t a costume yet. Weird.
I wasn’t planning on writing a Picker article on my costume, but Dr Lamar made a point that my chiropractic collecting has transformed me into someone else… Well, it is Halloween after all. But he is correct that I had to use my picking skills to put together my BJ Palmer costume. To get the materials I went to my favorite picking haunts: The Salvation Army, church rummage sales, craft stores, and the World-Wide Web. Continue reading
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The Chiro-Picker Brings BJ to Life
Hey, this is Dr. Lamar chiming in the Picker’s space!
…It’s amazing what collecting chiropractic antiques will do to a guy!
Todd Waters has certainly taken his passion for chiro-collecting to a whole new level…in that he is unmistakably tapping into a creative way to bring BJ back to life.
Check out his growing collection of BJ Palmer videos, now affectionately known as “BJ TV“:
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SHOW NOTES
Title: Doc Simmon’s BJ Chiro History Museum and The Power of the Podcast!
Episode Number: 096
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 10/21/11
Run Time: 85:11
Description: Join Dr. Thomas Lamar as he joins chiropracTIC antique collector, Todd Waters, and BJ Palmer ChiropracTOR, Steven Simmons for a unique “tour” through Doc Simmons’ BJ Chiro History Museum in Midland, Michigan. Plus you’ll hear a fantastic story that only the Power of the Podcast could tell.
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Take the Tour!
Enter Here to Follow Along with the Audio Podcast as Dr. Simmons and the Chiro-Picker “Walk” us through the Museum.
• Things we talked about and additional info:
– BJ Palmer Recording Episodes
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The article Todd read that convinced him to start seeing a chiropractor
– Link to Todd’s Chiro-Picker articles
– Visit Todd’s ebay store
– New Beginnings Chiropractic Weekend
– New Beginnings Chiropractic History Facebook Page
– Association for the History for Chiropractic Facebook Page
– Todd’s Facebook Page
– Steven’s Facebook Page
– Simmons Specific Chiropractic website
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Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio guest blogger
For this article my focus is on radio related items from chiropractic history.
The first chiropractic relic I discovered has probably been my best find yet — 1931 BJ Palmer voice recordings on five acetate records. Prior to this picking, I didn’t know who this BJ Palmer character was. I just knew unusual spoken word records were a good sell, and these old recordings were probably valuable.
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