Click image to enlargeHey Kids make tracks up the lobby in Wayfinders. Stand in a dogshite in these bad boys and you certainly will.
But who could resist shoes with a compass in the heel. The very dab for expeditions to far flung places like "the donkeys" or Hunters Bog. Yep leaving the well charted area around the High Wall could be tretcherous, best be prepared.
The main drawback of these timeless classics were the moon crater soles. There was less emphasis in cleaning up after your dog in the 1970's, in fact most seemed to wander free like wildebeest of the Serengeti or buffallo of the Great Plains.
Dog eggs were in abundance, including those now obsolete white ones. Standing in them was inevitable. You could use up a whole box of Vulcan Household matches scraping out the craters in the front street after being banished by your irate Ma to "get them cleaned".
Occassionally you would get lucky and stand on a hard plastic "Dirty Fido", but most of the time it was the real McCoy.
Still a risk worth taking just to have shoes with a compass.
2 comments:
I don't believe it! The Net certainly turns up some nostalgic gems! When I was a kid I would have sold my Granny for a pair of Animal Tracks! My cousin used to have a pair of the Wayfinder Moonshots, but they never really did it for me. It'd have to have been a pair of the Tracks fer me! And better still you got a spare compass to help you find yer first compass which you had lost while navigating yer way thru some swamp-infested jungle! I tell you they maybe would have been better coming with some kinda dog poo removal tool, or a water pistol to hose poo out of the animal tracks.
I tell you though, imagine the thrashings that must have taken place in some households when a kid created a trail of dog crap encrusted animal tracks across the sitting room carpet!
Aye, Animal Tracks! Free compass & stickers. No matter that they might have fitted you as well as Frankenstein's monster's boots! At least you had some ill-made freebies to ease the pain of chapped heels, club-toes, corns, and rampant athletes foot! I tell you a month or so after wearing the aforesaid items yer feet would probably look like something akin to the feet of a yeti! Then you wouldn't even need to wear the Animal Tracks to crreate the effect any more. Job done!
Arkos
Well said arkos. Mind you I was mighty keen on the compass bit. Just the job for finding yer way out of a tight spot. I heard that Capt Scott was waiting on a pair of these things before he set off. Maybe he would have found his way back if he had them!
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