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I never had shoes like that, but I have had a few "scope jobs".

I went in for one and I was wearing boxer under pants with pictures of Snoopy printed all over. The nurses thought that was hilarious.
 
Pappy said:
Anyone remember putting steel taps on the heels of your shoes? It was popular in my school years until the principle put a stop to it.
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I remember us kids something like this in the late 60's or 70's I don't know exactly when it was, I know I wasn't in my teens till the 70's, but, I know we did all kinds of fun things ever before I became a teen.

Some fun shoes I remember:
Penny loafers
Buster Brown shoes
Those black and white shows, I can't remember what they were called.
 

The 50’s trend towards teenage rebellion took to the extreme when boys attached metal taps to the bottoms of their shoes. No longer the strong, silent rebel, the tap-shoed ruffian brashly advertised his tough image via taps that would scrape and clack against the road or sidewalk, and even in school halls. This noisy style drove parents and teachers crazy, and were soon outlawed in schools.
Boys started attaching metal taps from tap shoes onto their own oxfords, but as the trend grew, other things like bottle caps, pieces of metal, and even pony-size horseshoes were nailed onto the sole of the shoe to produce the clacking sound. The style was most likely borrowed from the young street performers who tap-danced on the sidewalks of urban cities like Harlem. As would happen so many times in the decades to come, teens took the style from the street corner and brought it to suburbia.
Shoe repairmen had a booming business with rebel teens who had true metal taps riveted to their soles. A half-moon clip would be nailed to the front toe tip, and a heavy block to the back heel. Kids who couldn’t afford the taps, or who were late to the trend and couldn’t get taps from the shoe store, often made their own.
The taps weren't just for sound: letting your metal taps drag along the asphalt while riding your bike produced a spark shower to rival New Year’s Day at midnight. But let’s not kid anybody: sparks were cool, but taps were really just another way to cheese off the man in the new hooliganism of the 50’s.
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Pappy, now that I think of it, I think I was just taking tap lessons in my suburban school at the time and nothing as ambitious as being rebellious. :laugh: Not to do with the lessons, I rather enjoyed it at the time, but in general, I detest almost all tap dance performances.
 
Pappy said:
Anyone remember putting steel taps on the heels of your shoes? It was popular in my school years until the principle put a stop to it.
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I remember the boys doing that when I was in grammar school. We were the first class in our newly built school and the principle stopped it as well. The boys were not allowed to put their collar up on the back of their shirt either. The principal was always walking behind the boys and putting their collars down along with a threat of suspension.
 
AprilT said:
I remember us kids something like this in the late 60's or 70's I don't know exactly when it was, I know I wasn't in my teens till the 70's, but, I know we did all kinds of fun things ever before I became a teen.

Some fun shoes I remember:
Penny loafers
Buster Brown shoes
Those black and white shows, I can't remember what they were called.
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Was the black & white shoes called saddle oxfords?
 
If you were female in the mid-70's it was Candies, Barbie shoes for humans
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