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trof

(54,273 posts) Mon Sep 7, 2020, 06:10 PM Sep 2020

Sneakers, tennis shoes, easy walkers [View all]

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 [View all] 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