This past weekend, walking home, I saw that one of my old, favorite pairs of shoes had finally fallen from the streetlamp where I had tossed them over a year ago.
I got the shoes at Schwab's Dry Goods on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee in 1994... old vintage Keds with yellowing rubber soles and "1976" stamped on the label on the tattered box. Thankfully, due to their odd size, they had actually hung around that...
i scanned this photo i took in january of 1964.
we were training for mountain warfare. soldier at left is a nice boy from an italian family in north philadelphia, his name is chico, the other guy is ronny. ...