On Friday, June 02, 2000 3:30 PM, Christian wrote:

> Crusty Russ wrote:
> > I too, cast my vote for the Scubapro Frameless mask, it's a great mask.
> > The only down side is that they don't offer it with the two curved
> > snorkels sticking out the top...you know, the ones with the ping-pong
> > balls in the cage.  :-)

> That, as I recall, was called the Medusa and I used to use one when ping
> pong balls were considered cool, or whatever was the then word for cool.

I just looked that mask up in the May, 1955, Healthways catalogue.  They
were apparently made by Cressi and cost (then) just $8.95!  (That was the
absolute top-of-the-range mask when most others would set you back about
$2.00 and when anti-fogging, spit-in-a-bottle, compounds cost .49 cents!)
:-)

Strike