It was some serious stuff in the day..it scared people, with good reason. But in retrospect, it was overplayed in my parents house in the '50's...everything they didn't want a young boy to do was met with a warning. "If you get wet in the creek you will get polio". "If you shoot birds in the cherry tree, you will get polio". "If you don't eat them turnips, you will get polio". You never seen a kid gobble down Dr Salk's sugar cube so fast and so eagerly in your life.
