Dr. Thomas Lamar, your podcast chiropractor
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: Alana Callender DEd, BJ Palmer, BJ Palmer's brother, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, Davenport Iowa, DD Palmer, Frank Palmer, Oakdale Cemetery, Stephen Zins DC, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Documenting the life of DD Palmer, the founder of Chiropractic, has become an exciting endeavor for me.
I knew very little of the man before I began researching him. Actually, if anything, I knew more about the mysteries and myths surrounding his life then that of the truth.
And to find that truth, I found myself searching beyond the perspective of other Chiropractic historians — beyond what we “already knew”… or thought we knew.
While their writings were often a good starting point in which to become familiar with the general biography of Old Dad Chiro, many inconsistencies existed between them. Instead, I found old newspaper articles to be the narrative I needed, unveiling the life of Palmer as a healer. We are fortunate the papers covered Palmer as much as they did, because now we are privy to some of the missing pieces his biography has been lacking.
One of my discoveries that nearly had me jumping out of my seat was an obituary of Frank Palmer.
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SHOW NOTES
Title: ChiropracTIC History Saga Episode; Mission Possible ChiroFEST 2013; and Sottile and Gorman Interviewed Together
Episode Number: 170
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 12/06/13
Run Time: 249:26
Description: It’s the Spinal Column Radio “Saga Episode.” Join Dr. Lamar and Logan for their last “regular” show as they “clear the countertop” to make way for the upcoming Finale Show. On this episode they step you back into chiropracTIC’s past with a boatload of exciting chiropractic history, and then step you forward into its future with ChiroFEST 2013’s Mission Possible. Plus they sit down with ChiropracTIC’s Principled Funnyman and Funnywoman, Dean Sottile and Sharon Gorman, for an unforgettable duo-interview that will have you laughing and taking notes at the same time.
History topics covered: DD Palmer’s Portland Chiropractic College with Nathan Cashion reporting on location; “A Journey for the TIC Like None Other” — The Searby Saga (the story of Mack and Dorothy Searby’s quest to study at the PSC); Gary Street and BJ’s Chiropractic Scrapbook; DD’s other son (BJ’s older brother) Frank Palmer’s gravesite rediscovered; BJ’s Parrot; Fred Barge’s Rats in a Dump; DD’s Mammoth Tusk; DD visits Seattle; BJ Palmer Mansion (featuring Todd Waters and Joe Ierano); BJ’s fascination with elephants; and more.
ChiroFest 2013 mini-interviews asking the question of all the event speakers, based on what they shared from the platform, “What is POSSIBLE with chiropracTIC?”: James Chestnut, Jeanne Ohm, Fred Schofield, Joe Borio, Liam Schubel, Deed Harrison, Brad Glowaki, Troy Dukowitz, Garret Gunderson, Heidi Farrell, Wendy Dick, Billy DeMoss, Matthew Loop, Dan Yachter, Cathy Colby, and Paul Reed.
Plus BTOC (Big TOR on Campus) Brett Jones with Jen Wilhelm, Two Spinal Column Reblogs featuring Drs. Fred Barge and David Jackson, Power of the Podcast, and listener feedback.
(Chestnut, Ohm, Schofield, Borio, Schubel, Harrison, Glowaki, Dukowitz, Farrell, Reed, Gunderson, Dick, DeMoss, Loop, Yachter, and Colby interviews recorded at the 2013 ChiroFest in Redmond, Washington. Interview with Drs. Dean Sottile and Sharon Gorman recorded at the 2012 California Jam in Costa Mesa, California).
Journey for the TIC like none other
SEARBY SAGA
Peters and Chance. The Searby saga: a story of hardships and determinations: chiropractic in Australia 1905-1945. Chiropractic Journal of Australia, v.31, no.1, Mar 2001, p.17-32
- Listen to our Seattle College of Chiropractic history piece on SCR 167
- Listen to our WOC Studio Tour special audio presentation
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Telling the SCR Story
for Life Chiropractic College West’s Storyteller Project
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DD’s Portland Chiro College
– On Location –
— Nathan Cashion, UWS chiro student and host of Exploring Chiropractic
– more history on DD Palmer’s Portland Chiropractic School: (1) (2) (3)
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SpinalColumnRadio
ON LOCATION with the
Dead Chiropractic Society’s
chiropracTIC’s
Principled Funnybones
Dean Sottile, DC and Sharon Gorman, DC
DCS California Jam
2012
Dr. Thomas Lamar interviews Drs. Dean Sottile and Sharon Gorman
at the 2012 California Jam.
• Learn more about Dean and Sharon:
– Dean Sottile on Facebook
– Dean’s other SCR interviews: (059 and 142)
– Sharon Gorman on Facebook
– Sharon’s other SCR interviews: (097, 138, and 144)
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ChiroFEST 2013
— Redmond, Washington —
What is possible with ChiropracTIC?
James Chestnut, Jeanne Ohm, Fred Schofield, Joe Borio, Liam Schubel, Deed Harrison, Brad Glowaki, Troy Dukowitz, Garret Gunderson, Wendy Dick, Billy DeMoss, Matthew Loop, Dan Yachter, Cathy Colby, and Paul Reed.
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• Pics talked about on the show:
Street shares scrapbook story – 2010
Links talked about on the show:
- Take Our Survey!
- Chiro-Pickers Scrapbook article
- Listen to our Fall 2010 Gary Street interview (SCR 044)
- Chiro-Picker Frank Palmer Gravesite article
- Listen to SCR 160 addressing LACC students
- Spinal Column Reblogs
- Rats in a Dump – Fred Barge
- Rx on an Airplane – David Jackson
- JUST FOUND (08/19/2014) Actual Photo of BJ’s Parrot:
- Get Connected!
- Chasing DD – by Todd Waters
- also check out the ChiroPicker Book Shoppe
- Chiro-Picker mansion article
“The Big TOR on Campus”
Brett Jones, DC
DC2B Life West
an interview with
Jen Wilhelm, DC
.
• Learn more about Brett Jones:
• Learn more about the California Jam:
– Website: CaliforniaJam.org
– Website: DeadChiropracticSociety.com
– Facebook California Jam – Dead Chiropractic Society
Check out the Cal Jam Interview Archives! (plus see who’s still the cue for release)
• Learn More about ChiroFEST
– Website: ChiroFest.org
– Facebook: ChiroFest Page
– Pics: Check out our 2012 ChiroFest photos
Check out the ChiroFEST Archives!
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: BJ Palmer Scrapbook, Chips from Sweet Home, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, DD Palmer, Gary Street DC, Merwyn Zarbuck DC, Palmer School of Chiropractic, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
As I wrote in a recent Fresh Pick installment, I enjoy collecting stories and treasured memories from people who have a connection with Chiropractic’s early years — tales, which I often find escape our chiro-history texts. While these stories can sometimes be difficult, if not impossible, to fact-check, I still find that they allow me to be a better ChiroPicker. For they often provide missing clues — acting as that needed breadcrumb — to bring me (and I’m sure other chiro-historians) closer to unearthing other great discoveries.
Here’s another one of my favorites:
Dr. Gary Street joined up with the now late Dr. Merwyn Zarbuck to assist him in his twenty-five year quest for BJ Palmer’s scrapbook.
BJ, as you may know, wrote about his scrapbook in the Green Book series and stated it was not actually a book per se, but files upon files of anything and everything documenting chiropractic’s history from its conception.
The scrapbook contained notebooks, journals, newspaper clippings, publications, and letters.
And while BJ wrote about this compilation, he did not state where it was kept — which would have been a big deal, because the files were rumored to have occupied three floors!
Surely, a collection this large would be easy to find after a cursory search about the campus. But then again, the references to BJ as “The Little Builder” were not made in vain. He was constantly constructing additions at the Palmer School — acquiring neighboring properties for expansion to allow him to interconnect his buildings. Perhaps during these structural revisions the three-floor-scrapbook got “misplaced.” Continue reading
Filed under: a chiropractic podcast, BJ Palmer comedy, chiropractic history, Chiropractic Philosophy, interview | Tags: a chiropractic podcast, A Message to Garcia, Anchor Chiropractic, BJ Palmer, ChiroPicker, chiropractic, chiropractic podcast, chiropractic radio, Chiropractor, DD Palmer, Deliver Your Message to Garcia, Dossa Dixon Evins DC, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Elbert Hubbard, epigrams, Kingston, Kitsap, Myron Brown DC, neurocalometer, Palmer School of Chiropractic, podcast chiropractor, Podcast Survey, Robert Borer DC, RS Marlow DC, Simon Senzon DC, spinal column radio, Spinal Column Radio Tour, SpinalColumnRadio, Todd Waters, Todd Waters interview, WHO, WOC
SHOW NOTES
Title: BJ Palmer Epigrams
Episode Number: 169
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 11/01/13
Run Time: 178:50
Description: BJ Palmer, the Developer of ChiropracTIC, is known for many things — one of which is the seemingly countless inspirational and THOT-provoking epigrams he scribed on the walls of the Palmer School of Chiropractic. In addition to impacting and encouraging all who read them, these quotes, in many ways described him… and worked to define him. Join Dr. Thomas Lamar for this very special episode of Spinal Column Radio in which he, along with Drs. Simon Senzon, Robert Borer, and Myron Brown — and of course, the ChiroPicker, Todd Waters — step back in time to discuss this fascinating characteristic associated with BJ of Davenport.
Purchase “Chasing DD”
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Podcasting from the Fire Lookout Tower
• Stuff Talked About on the Show:
Take Our Survey!- Box on the Wall
- Archive Feeds
- Simon Senzon Interview
- Palmer Grads Remember the Epigrams
- Myron Brown and Todd Waters Interview (part 1)
- R.S. Marlow POP Story on SCR 168
- “Magical Chiropractors“ POP Story
Happy Home Podcast (slipping & checking) – episode 036- Rob Shaw – Weekly Sticky – on Rock Star Chiropractic Project
- Robert Borer Interview
- Chiro-Picker Article – saving epigrams story
- Get your Epigrams: All Things Chiropractic
- Robert’s Tree House
- Robert’s Facebook
- Keith Wassung
- check out Keith’s social media “epigrams”
- Spinal Column Reblog: Robbing Banks to Steal Pens
- TomLamarCartoon.com
- check out Keith’s social media “epigrams”
- Myron Brown and Todd Waters Interview (part 2)
- Todd’s Newest Book
- Elbert Hubbard – “A Message to Garcia”
- Fred Schofield
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Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: BJ Palmer, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, DD Palmer, Harvey Lillard, Palmer School of Chiropractic, Ryan Block Building, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
A brick sits on my desk. But this is not just any brick….
In 1888 DD Palmer moved his magnetic healing practice to Davenport, Iowa, renting rooms in the Ryan Block Building on the corner of Second and Brady streets. Palmer not only used these rooms as his office for his patients, but as his residence for his family. His vitalistic, hands-only, magnetic healing methods were so successful and sought after, that within four years he required the square footage of the building’s entire fourth floor. Room and board was made available for his most severe cases.
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