Mickey Marasco, “Wisconsin top baseball and softball sponsor wishes the Spartans the best of luck.” The Spartans were the CSFL pro-football team from West Allis; Mickey ran Marasco’s Craft Kings. It seems Mickey wanted to really play up his butch side. You know, to counter his feminine craft side.
Ad found in this 1974 Center States Football League yearbook.
BlueAndRedCows knit a pair of Chucks and shares the pattern too.
Clearly, these shoes are dog approved — and not (just) for chewing.
I don’t knit (yet), so I’m not sure if this is the same pattern or not… And I wonder if they could be modified for these Converse shoes?
If you also haven’t (yet) learned to knit, check out handmade knitted sneakers by Katie at Pretty Sneaky where you can find Converse Chuck Taylor high tops hand knit in many designs and patterns, including the classic pirate skull and crossbones.
Or maybe you’re more of a robot lover?
Don’t worry; if you can’t find your size, she’ll make them in your size — just for you.
Katie’s sneakers are made a bit differently; the handknit uppers are stitched over the original shoe. I’d imagine this helps the shoes keep their shape better.
No word on whether or not dogs love them just as much.
You know, like they do in Gotham. Vintage magazine cover: La Science et la Vie, started in 1913 but is now just called Science & Vie; via Visual Arts Library Picture & Periodicals Collections.
Joan Bradshaw walking a dog on Hollywood and Vine, 1957.
This mustache comb necklace, likely suitable for beards too, is a pendant on a chain — so you have a portable device for grooming those who forget to groom themselves. (Via Kitschy Living.)
This American Airlines ad (found in National Geographic, June 1968) reminds you not to grope the stewardesses — you don’t grope your mom, do you? Vintage ad via this Advertising & Tourism post at the Visual Arts Library Picture & Periodicals Collections blog.
Photo via Superbomba.
Full-page ad for Swendson Ford found in a 1974 Center States Football League yearbook for the West Allis Spartans featuring the three generations of Swendsons: H. P. Swendson, E. A. Swendson, and Tom Swendson. Notice how formal initials gave way to less intimidating “buddy” names.
More from that 1963 issue of This Week In The Land of the Smokies and The Southern Highlands; this time ads for Ogle’s Buffet Restaurant and Ogle’s Crafts Of The Smokies.
