Friday, June 19, 2009

R.I.P. John Joseph Houghtaling


For those of us who have memories of cross country road trips with our families in the 1960's and 1970's, this man was a giant.

John Joseph Houghtaling, inventor of the "Magic Fingers" vibrating bed, died Wednesday at the age of 92.
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4 comments:

  1. Dale8:53 AM

    I felt shivers up my spine when I read this. Is that wrong?

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  2. Barbara Bruederlin10:12 AM

    He brought joy to so many.

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  3. Anonymous4:56 PM

    Why, if he had a quarter for every time someone used one of his beds... oh wait, he did!

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  4. Freida Bee9:35 PM

    Now, there's someone who went and made the world a better place, one skeezy bed at a time.

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