More Retro Personal Massagers

After seeing the Oster brochure scans I put up yesterday, reader Matt T. sent in a link to his Flickr gallery of his "Stim-U-Lax, Junior," a personal massager that appears to be the same unit as my favorite "Scientific, Junior" with just a name change and a blue-fleck paint jot.

I recently acquired a very similar device called the stim-u-lax junior on a whim at a Savers in Fargo, ND. It's quite a device: It features an awesome on/off switch, is incredibly loud, has an awful odor and sparks while turned on (visible through the holes in the top of the device).

[Flickr]

And a anonymous commentor in that thread also pointed out this auction to the "Niagra" hand unit that the seller claims is from 1955. [Ebay.co.uk]

I love how many of these things still work. I know they're not terribly fancy, engineering-wise, but they were clearly built to last.

[#1 posted by r.munden , August 30, 2007 5:35 AM]

They obviously make with the licking and keep on ticking.

[#2 posted by AmphipodGirl , August 30, 2007 1:30 PM]

Check out the pics, history, and references offered at the Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum: http://www.goodvibes.com/Content--Antique-Vibrator-Museum--id-367

[#3 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden/Moderator , August 30, 2007 6:22 PM]

What's impressive is that they've gone on working so long while vibrating. Those conditions would kill weak or loose components.