Bone Vinyl (Classic)
4/17/202614 min
In the Soviet Union, x-rays didn’t just give you a look inside the human body. They also gave you a glimpse of the outside world, thanks to music that was imprinted onto this unassuming medical tool.
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First 90 secondsDylan Thuras· Host0:03
Let's begin in a kind of boring place, or at least just a normal one, one that you might walk through and never give a second thought. And plenty of people do. On any given day, people pass through the lobby of Forte Sports Medicine and Orthopedics in Carmel, Indiana, just outside of Indianapolis. They're there to treat various sports injuries, things like ruptured Achilles' heels, to figure out whether a sore knee or hip needs to be replaced. Normal stuff in a normal place. But on their way to their appointments, they'll pass a display. The display is full of X-rays, which makes sense given the nature of the office. But these X-rays are in a kind of strange condition. They've been cut into round shapes, got a little hole in the middle. They almost look like vinyl records. And not only do they almost look like them, they almost play like them, too.
Speaker 1· Soundbite1:02
One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock. Five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock. Nine o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, rock. We're gonna rock around the clock tonight. Put me in that right spot. Join me honey, we'll have some fun when the fat's riding high.
Dylan Thuras· Host1:18
I'm Dylan Thuras, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. And today, we're going back in time to the height of the Cold War.