Category: shoes

‘Can’t Let a Human Being Walk Around With No Shoes’: Florida Deputies Help Man in Need

June 25, 2021
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After responding to a call about a person loitering behind a gas station, Florida sheriff’s deputies saw there was more to the story: the man had no shoes, and he was hungry. Thus the kindhearted officers went above and beyond their call of duty to offer a solution. In the bodycam footage shot in the…

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Man Teaches Himself to Handcraft Incredible Leather Shoes—Ends Up Selling Them to Royalty

June 20, 2021
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A self-taught shoemaker has honed his craft from meager beginnings to fashioning some of the finest leather shoes in the world, from his workshop in Saigon, Vietnam. Learning the trade in humbling circumstances in the 1940s, Trinh Ngoc, now 89, went on to craft footwear that became sought after by the likes of kings and…

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High School Basketball Player With a ‘Big Heart’ Donates His Shoes to Help Opponent

March 12, 2021
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When a Michigan high school basketball player noticed that a member on the opposing team wasn’t wearing the right shoes for the game, he silently made a selfless donation. On Feb. 19, Wakefield-Marenisco Cardinals varsity was playing against Dollar Bay Blue Bolts. Before the game, Cardinals forward Matthew Montie was watching a junior varsity game…

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Jan Ernst Matzeliger: The Henry Ford of Shoes

February 8, 2021
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Suppose that I figured out a way to revolutionize the shoe industry. An invention of my own design would double shoe production and cut shoe prices in half. It would provide thousands of new jobs for mostly young or poor people. I could do it without a penny of taxpayer money. Indeed, I faced some…

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