Dr. Thomas Lamar, your podcast chiropractor
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by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
As a non-DC, but avid DC-historian, I can speak with some authority when I say chiropractors have never had an easy time selling what they do to the public. Although chiropractic is beneficial to the health of man, it is difficult to quickly explain to the layperson what it is — and on the flip side, what it isn’t. Chiropractic concepts are further complicated when potential patients must “unlearn” what hearsay has taught them.
From its beginning, the chiropractic profession has been smeared by other practitioners of health care, driven by competition and misunderstanding.
However, there was a period in chiropractic’s early life where the profession was under attack by clowns… Literally.
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Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Mabel Palmer. She’s known as “The First Lady of Chiropractic,” but do we really know that much about her???
Yes, she was wife to BJ Palmer, the developer of chiropractic.- Yes, she wrote Green book Volume 9 – Anatomy and taught the course at the Palmer School of Chiropractic (PSC).
- And yes, some of us know she wrote Stepping Stones a book of her world travels with BJ and their son David.
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Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Today I hold in my hands something very special to Chiropractic’s history!
…not to mention, very fragile.
My latest Chiro-pick happens to be an original, glass “spinograph” plate from 1920.
There are many things that make this early X-ray very cool. For one thing, it came inside an envelope that stated “Palmer School of Chiropractic 1920” — meaning that this image was made only ten years after PSC introduced X-rays to Chiropractic!
The Instructor’s name on the spinograph is E.A. Thompson — the same Thompson who wrote Green Book vol 10, CHIROPRACTIC SPINOLOGY.
I am sure thousands of these spinograph plates were made; however, I am also sure there are not many of these that have survived.
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SHOW NOTES
Title: Station WOC of Davenport, “Where the West Begins!”
Episode Number: 105
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 12/25/11
Run Time: 36:56
Description: Merry Christmas from Spinal Column Radio! On this special Christmas Day Episode, Dr. Lamar places a gift under the chiropractic profession’s tree — a gift that unearths a bit of chiropractic radio history that, had it not been for our beloved Chiro-Picker, may never have seen the light of day again. Join us as we take you back in time to the earliest days of radio when BJ would have been at the helm of the broadcasting boom of the 1920’s and breathe life back into a tremendous chiropractic radio treasure.
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Links:
Chiro-Picker’s ebay store for the sheet music
• Read Todd Water’s Chiro-Picker radio article: “Tuning In to Chiropractic’s Past”
• Get the backstory on this video: “BJ and Mabel ‘Listen In’ to Station WOC“
• More Chiropractic Radio History
– History of Radio Podcast: 05, 06
– BJ Palmer early health broadcasts:
– Ronald Reagan Connection: CD track 06
– DC Angle of Chiro-Picker’s Radio Article
– DC Angle of Chiro-Picker’s article on WOC song video.
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Ardis and Russell Swank breathe life into Nat Ozmon’s “Where the West Begins!”
Dr. Lamar interviews 97 year-old Leola Anderson (born in 1914) about her earliest memories of radio.
Professor Flint’s Hypnosis Show on the vaudeville circuit
— BJ Palmer’s employer in 1898 —
Credits
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-bob-bobbin’ Along — Whispering Jack Smith, 1926.
Station WOC of Davenport: “Where the West Begins!” — Nat Ozmon, 1923.
Bleeding Hearted Blues — James P. Johnson, 1923.
Safe in the Arms of Jesus — Chimes, 1902.
Ronald Reagan addressing WHO 50th Anniversary, Des Moines, Iowa, 1974.
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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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