You couldn’t miss him. With his all-black attire, shaved head and earring, he looked like a cross between Houdini and Mister Clean as he transformed soapy bubbles into plastic balls and shreds of ...

The inventor of the "Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed," which brought weary travelers 15 minutes of "tingling relaxation and ease" for a quarter in hotel rooms across America during its heyday as a pop ...

Russ and Rusty Gill were once the region’s Magic Fingers kingpins. In the late 1980s the father-son team from Spokane ran an 80-motel network with 2,000 of the machines, which vibrated a mattress for ...