1/24/2006: Shoe tree
 

http://cellar.org/2006/shoetree1.jpg

Been a while since I dropped the information on an image, but that's what I've done here. So I don't remember where in the world this is. But the I thought, it doesn't really matter, does it? This shoe tree is somewhere in the world. It's a fine work of all the people who gave to it. Enjoy.

http://cellar.org/2006/shoetree2.jpg

Looks like there are several. Cool.

I'm more used to seeing those on power lines. Guess the trees are for more rural communities.

that is wickedly beautiful

we should start one

They must have a horrific gang problem there.

A shoeless gang?

The phenomenon that Elspode (and, I assume, wolf) is referring to is the use of shoes to mark inner city gang territory. I don't know if this is a worldwide phenomenon, but I've certainly seen it all over the place here in California. If you see dangling shoes on a phone or powerline overhead, you might not want to linger in the neighborhood.

Somewhere in the world, there is a kid who now has a smart-ass answer when their parent says, "Put those things in your closet. You think shoes grow on trees?"

http://www.sdainc.net/money_tree_color.jpgi thought it was "do you think money grows on trees?"

There's some pretty expensive looking shoes on that tree.

Eww..
 

..what _are_ those white spots growing on the fabric!? Tricorder indicates.. H₂O crystals! Oh.. it's winter time.

It was multi-purpose in our house.

I wish we had one here. I would be wearing a lot better pair of catheads than I 'm wearing now.

I've seen the powerline shoe thingie here in this one horse town. I never knew it had anything to do with gang activity. Learn some thing every day. Especially here in the Cellar.

Cool image. Never saw one of these. Or heard of it.

there is one between San Diego and Laughlin, NV. When I first turned 21 (5 years ago) my friends and I road tripped from SD to Laughlin. About 30 beers into the trip we saw the tree and decided it would be fun to add our shoes to it. Of course, they were the only shoes we brought with us. Laughlin... in the summer... no shoes... drunk off our asses... not cool.