Seniors

trof

(54,274 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

randr

(12,653 posts)

1. Keds

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:11 PM

Sep 2020

Squinch

(60,075 posts)

2. PF Flyers! Make you run faster, jump higher!

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:12 PM

Sep 2020

trof

(54,274 posts)

3. Sure felt like that.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:14 PM

Sep 2020

Harker

(18,161 posts)

8. The 'action wedge'... n/t

Reply to trof (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 7, 2020, 11:06 PM

Sep 2020

mahatmakanejeeves

(70,757 posts)

6. That's what I was going to say. I had PF Flyers when I was a kid.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #2)

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?

dhill926

(16,953 posts)

4. I remember PF Flyers...

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:14 PM

Sep 2020

and it's nice to remember anything at this point...

Dave in VA

(2,291 posts)

5. Mine were Converse

Reply to trof (Original post)

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.

uppityperson

(116,027 posts)

7. Tennies

Reply to trof (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2020, 08:03 PM

Sep 2020

I've learned to call them sneakers, but they are tennies.

trof

(54,274 posts)

10. I do remember tennies.

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #7)

Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:05 PM

Sep 2020

3Hotdogs

(15,548 posts)

9. I'm Buster Brown. I live in a shoe. That's my dog, Tide. He lives in there, too.

Reply to trof (Original post)

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

(54,274 posts)

11. I think the dog was Tige, short for Tiger?

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #9)

Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:07 PM

Sep 2020

Look for him in there too.

The ones I had curled up like Persian slippers.

3Hotdogs

(15,548 posts)

12. ---learn sumthin new every day.

Reply to trof (Reply #11)

Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:35 PM

Sep 2020

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