The Washington Avenue shoe tree is a hackberry at the southwest end of the
W.A. bridge that is afflicted with witches'broom--a virus that just
disfigures trees but doesn't kill them. When I took Plant-Path (ca. 1976)
I cited that tree for my pathogen list. At the time, there were no shoes
on it.
When I came back to campus about 5 years later, the tree had begun
accumulating shoes (as well as the occasional book bag, bike wheel, other
memorabilia). For some, it's a place to leave an extra mark on campus
after graduation. For others, it's a place to leave a pair of shoes just
to see if you can hang 'em up there.
Minnesota Daily story at
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2003/04/21/38692 is only a partial history.
If you want to see real power wire problems, check any halfway decent
fishing lake that has power lines over a place where people can cast into
the water. Some cables must be carrying $50 worth of lures and line.
If hanging shoes have anything to do with marking drug sales sites, it only
underscores the paucity of intelligence or imagination found in that part
of the population. Well, it might be a marker for that, at least.
Emilie Quast
SE Como
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