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Shoes on a wire: a lost tradition

by Marcy - The Glamorous Life!
Thursday, June 05, 2008



When I was a kid in the OC (a long, long time ago) on the last day of school, some kids (not this kid-but OTHER kids- those risky ones) would take their old gym shoes and tie the laces together and throw them over the telephone wires on the way home from school (yes, back then we were allowed to walk to school-shocking I know).....and there the shoes would dangle for all the world to see - forever. Seemed like they never came down. I remember gazing out the back of our wood panelled station wagon on the way to the Alpha Beta grocery store in La Palma and see the same pairs of shoes, on the same wires - for years. Now most of the phone wires in the OC are buried underground, and most public schools don't even offer gym class (P.E. I mean)...so this whole bizarre tradition is disappearing. I was surprised to read online, that people have attributed this tradition to have other meanings...but I remember very clearly why we did it. We did it because it was funny. We did it because we knew would make the 'grown-ups' mad. And mainly we did it because - well, because-we could.
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4 Comments:

  • I remember this so well.

    By Blogger Suzanne, at June 05, 2008 9:04 PM  

  • this reminds me of a place called shoe tree out in the middle of no where on highway 50 in central nevada this tree is so full of shoes it looks like its full of leaves in winter

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 21, 2008 10:52 PM  

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    By Blogger Sandy, at July 01, 2008 11:02 AM  

  • I don't recall the shoes near the Alpha Beta. I do recall seeing shoes on a wire near the Kmart that used to be at Valley View and Lincoln. For some reason seeing those shoes gave me the creeps when I was little.

    By Blogger Sandy, at July 01, 2008 11:05 AM  

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