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trof

(54,255 posts)
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:10 PM Sep 2020

Sneakers, tennis shoes, easy walkers

When I was a kid I got a new pair of black, high top, lace up canvas shoes. They had a white circular rubber patch on the inside ankles.
I think they were PF Flyers.

Granny called them 'easy walkers', so that's what I called them.
I put those shoes on and I felt like I could fly like the wind.

Brits call them 'plimsolls', or at least they used to.
What do you call them?

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Sneakers, tennis shoes, easy walkers (Original Post) trof Sep 2020 OP
Keds randr Sep 2020 #1
PF Flyers! Make you run faster, jump higher! Squinch Sep 2020 #2
Sure felt like that. trof Sep 2020 #3
The 'action wedge'... n/t Harker Sep 2020 #8
That's what I was going to say. I had PF Flyers when I was a kid. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #6
I remember PF Flyers... dhill926 Sep 2020 #4
Mine were Converse Dave in VA Sep 2020 #5
Tennies uppityperson Sep 2020 #7
I do remember tennies. trof Sep 2020 #10
I'm Buster Brown. I live in a shoe. That's my dog, Tide. He lives in there, too. 3Hotdogs Sep 2020 #9
I think the dog was Tige, short for Tiger? trof Sep 2020 #11
---learn sumthin new every day. 3Hotdogs Sep 2020 #12

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
6. That's what I was going to say. I had PF Flyers when I was a kid.
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:20 PM
Sep 2020

I went from PF Flyers to Keds. I went from Keds to Chuck Taylor Converse All-Stars.

Mon Aug 19, 2019: What w: s your sneaker brand growing up?

Dave in VA

(2,034 posts)
5. Mine were Converse
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:14 PM
Sep 2020

white hightops. At least they were white when my parents purchased them.

Older brother had black ones. His foot was larger then, but I would sneak them and put newspaper in the toes and wear them sometimes.

3Hotdogs

(12,210 posts)
9. I'm Buster Brown. I live in a shoe. That's my dog, Tide. He lives in there, too.
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 11:47 PM
Sep 2020

BB was advertised on Andy's Gang on NYC local tv.

The model for Buster Brown was 4 year old, Milton Berle.

trof

(54,255 posts)
11. I think the dog was Tige, short for Tiger?
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:07 PM
Sep 2020

Look for him in there too.

The ones I had curled up like Persian slippers.

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