Nathan recommends reproduction Converse tennis shoes

pam kueber — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:59:46 +0000

My search for authentic reproduction 40s 50s 60s and 70s baubles and bling continues onward (if you subscribed to my weekly newsletter, you’d know). Reader Nathan recommends:

Hey Pam!

We’re hot in the throws of finalizing our kitchen remodel. I should be finalizing the marmoleum, arpa, (Sherwin Williams) paint schema tomorrow with our remodeler. It will be cool! Anyway, back to the retro bling topic – What do you do if you’ve been looking for retro tennies for ages, to no avail? Well, you call the right person and happen to find out that Converse will do custom colors, and you have ‘em made (attached). Nevermind that horrible flooring in the picture…it will soon be gone

Nathan

Hey Nathan, thank you! We can’t wait to see the kitchen, but meanwhile we’ll settle for that shot of your feet. Don’t hurt yourself taking photos for Retro Renovation, now!

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Re-issued vintage PF Flyers

pam kueber — Sun, 03 May 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Oh my goodness, I am sure that these PF Flyers are the kinds of sneakers… “tennies”… that I had as a kid growing up in the 60s. Keds, too. Brian over at Atomic Addiction spotted the fact that authentic vintage reproductions of PF Flyers have now been introduced. There are 12 different designs, originally introduced as early as 1940… all the way to 1981. Me, I think I’ll get a pair of the 1947 Grounder Lo’s. On the PF Flyer website there’s also a nice little slide show on the history of the brand, which included the first tie-up (tee hee) between a sneaker company and a pro basketball player, Bob Cousy.

And…Be sure to click on the great PF Flyer commercial on the upper right of this page with, yes: Jonny Quest!

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Nathan recommends reproduction Converse tennis shoes

Re-issued vintage PF Flyers