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Re: Wild Bill Hickok 02 (Blue Bird)

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crashryan

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Re: Wild Bill Hickok 02 (Blue Bird)
« on: January 19, 2021, 03:00:02 AM »

Well dawggone, Wild Bill! I had a pair of those Shu-Lok snap-open shoes. I'd forgotten all about them. A piece of metal kind of like a shoe horn without the handle part was sewn inside the tongue. There was some kind of spring mechanism so that when you pulled on the tongue it rotated up with a click, then snapped back into place when you pushed it down. (Added later: it acted like the mechanism used for men's snap-on ties) I think the idea was to avoid breaking down the back of the shoe while slipping it on.

Link to the book: Wild Bill Hickok 02 (Blue Bird)
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Captain Audio

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Re: Wild Bill Hickok 02 (Blue Bird)
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2021, 07:46:04 AM »


Well dawggone, Wild Bill! I had a pair of those Shu-Lok snap-open shoes. I'd forgotten all about them. A piece of metal kind of like a shoe horn without the handle part was sewn inside the tongue. There was some kind of spring mechanism so that when you pulled on the tongue it rotated up with a click, then snapped back into place when you pushed it down. (Added later: it acted like the mechanism used for men's snap-on ties) I think the idea was to avoid breaking down the back of the shoe while slipping it on.

Link to the book: Wild Bill Hickok 02 (Blue Bird)


I had a pair of those shoes when I was a kid. The mechanism turned out to be too flimsy to last long.
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