Comments on: ERICKSON LEGS are Wonderful

By: Toronto

Toronto — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:09:25 +0000

Charlie: With necessity comes invention, of course, so a lot of the veterans of the latest round of wars will likely get prosthetics that nobody will notice under long pants or sleeves.

I must say the Erickson leg in the ad looks pretty good for the era. Note the pivoting foot, for example.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:16:37 +0000

George: A friend of mine works at the Naval Hospital in Balboa Park, San Diego, and from the stories she’s told me, I think that we’re unfortunately seeing another surge of amputees coming back from Iraq.

By: George

George — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:04:07 +0000

I grew up in the late forties/early fifties, and people, ,mostly men, with missing legs or arms were something you saw daily. A friend of mine used to wonder if sometimes they fell off when you grew up, like teeth.

By: Robert Hey

Robert Hey — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:55:04 +0000

Susan,
I metal detect for fun and collect the old coins that I find. Yesterday I found a Good luck Tokin about the size of a fifty cent peice from your Granddad’s company.
email roberthey@iflock.com for info

By: TERRY

TERRY — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:12:05 +0000

Susan,

I do not know much about your grandfather, but along with some coins that my grandmother gave me many years ago I received a coin from your grandfathers company. If you would like to contact me about it, e-mail me at tbarraclough42@yahoo.com.

terry

By: Susan Erickson Sampson

Susan Erickson Sampson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:28:40 +0000

I’m the great granddaughter of E. H. Erickson. I would love to have any information you have on my great grandfather and his company — especially a copy of his advertisement from you 1924 issue. At one point in time E. H. Erickson Co. was the largest supplier of artificial limbs in the world.

Sincerely,

Susan E. Sampson

By: Prosthetic limbs, circa 1924 « Neurophilosophy

Prosthetic limbs, circa 1924 « Neurophilosophy — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:44:22 +0000

[...] Modern Mechanix comes this ad for artificial limbs, from the March 1924 issue of Popular Mechanics: Those who wear [...]

By: Reader

Reader — Thu, 17 May 2007 04:46:12 +0000

Minneapolis was a major milling town, with many saw mills along the river on the north side - near this address. A town of dangerous jobs, it became an artificial limb making center by the turn of the 19th century. There used to be an old brick building along Washington Ave. with a faded sign advertising artificial limbs, but I’m not sure whether it was Erickson or not.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:35:22 +0000

Somewhere I have another one about fake arms that you can use to operate machine tools. I thought that was an even more ridiculously niche item.

I wonder why so many people lost legs. I guess a lot of them could have been in the war. Probably infection caused a lot of amputations as well…

By: Blurgle

Blurgle — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:06:57 +0000

Imagine a time when there were so many people with amputations that it was worth taking out an ad in Popular Mechanics.