Wednesday Misc: the Flashcube

What a boon it was

The photography story didn’t include a lengthy disquisition on the Proustian Madeleine of my time:

Detail of a GE Ad, taken from a history of the Flashcube.

The flash cube was a fascinating little invention. For those of us born at a particular time, we had a memory of the old bulbs, and the peculiar pleasure of crinkling and crushing the husk of the expended bulb. It was like an alien exoskeleton.