Toralf Lund wrote: > Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> I thought of Toralf's shot of the shoes on the wire when I saw this >> article in our Sunday newspaper: >> >> http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1189917390313570.xml&coll=1 >> >> Snopes has also looked into the practice of throwing shoes over >> telephone wires, and concluded there is no single exlanation for the >> practice: >> >> http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.asp
The dorm where I resided a couple of quarters during my college career didn't have a "shoe line", but it did have a "shoe tree". It was tradition that the students living in about three or four dorm buildings that surrounded the tree would toss their old tennis shoes up in the tree (laces tied together, natch) when replacements were purchased. Don't know when it started or why, though. When I lived in that dorm (~25 years ago) the tree typically boasted around forty or fifty pairs at at time. I visited three or four years ago, the tradition has apparently waned. There were only about ten pair in the tree, and they all looked like they'd been there for a while. I'll have to try to get down there this year and see what the tree looks like and get some photos if it's at all photogenic. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
