B.J. Yeah, we did good to get one new pair of shoes a year and like you said they had to last! I've put lots of cardboard patches over the holes, glued soles back on and what have you just as long as they made it through until spring and summer! Yeah, and wearing tin cans on your shoes and walking on stilts was hard on them too! Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: B.J. Clay <bclay@pan-tex.net> To: patmc <patmc@sstelco.com> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Do you remember? > Pat, I don't know if your folks were like mine but we got a pair of > shoes for school and had to last. I remember putting cardboard in the > bottom to cover up holes. Hop scotch and jump rope would wear them out > pretty fast. B.J. >