Keds Champion Saddle Canvas/Suede 7739723
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Looking Back to the '50s, '60s and '70s-The Shoes We Wore
I’ve been watching Ellen DeGeneres lately, and her roster of footwear always amuses me. Recently, I’ve noticed that she’s taken to wearing some of the shoes I used to wear in grammar school. Since her childhood was probably arrested like mine was, perhaps she is also trying to relive her youth with some of her retro sole choices.
As a child, I think I only had three pairs of shoes. My Carpenter school shoe was the Saddle Shoe, that two-toned hefty leather hoof of a creation that could withstand kickball, sockball, tetherball, and an occasional kick to some kid who was tormenting me on the playground.
These shoes would never wear out. My mom bought them at the Kinney Shoe Store on Laurel Canyon, near May Company, since my uncle was a VP there, and probably got our family a good deal on all our shoes. Sometimes they were brown and while. Sometimes they were black and white. I love them, and once they were broken in, they were almost as comfortable as tennis shoes.
