Monday, August 29, 2022

I've got it and I'm keeping it because it was hard earned. Want some privilege? Earn it.

 


13 comments:

  1. Fifty-plus years later, my JB's are in the closet awaiting the word to mount-out....

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    1. Probably not Corcorans - no side ankle support strip, and I never saw the speed lace hooks on any on the base or in the PX (of course that was 50 years ago). The uppers on mine are even more broken in than these, and probably more comfortable than penny loafers. Who can forget the "Corcoran Bites" when breaking them in? Airborne Mike Fox.

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  2. I've had a couple of pair just like those.
    Most of them got that way from working to pay my way through college.
    Quaint huh?

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    1. I was born in the late 50s, 6 years after my siblings. When I graduated I was showned the door even though my folks were doing better. I went to work for the phone company as I worked my way through college, and I had a couple of pair that looked like that as I worked on cables in the ground and on poles. It was not easy, working, going to UCLA, but I became an Electrical Engineer and met my wife in college.

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  3. Looks like my last pair of Red Wings from my days welding on a railroad. I was too cheap to buy a new pair, and really they lasted longer than most of the others I had over a ten year period. Now, I do not work for the railroad anymore, but I spend my days lost in nature and getting muddy.

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  4. steel toe.. size 16 feet. heavy.

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  5. Yep! I am 63 and still have to work 2 jobs, 6 hours at the body shop then 3-11 at a machine shop. (that's why it is 1:01 am) I started working a real job at 14 and I feel privileged. I really like your blog, and that orange car!

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  6. I epoxied the leather back in place on mine when the steel was exposed.

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  7. miserable memory of having a pair of those on pile driving in a cofferdam for the new lock and dam 26 at the bottom of the mississippi river back '87. cold,15 degrees and those steel toes really transferred the chill to your feet.

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  8. They look like the USCG issue flight boots I wore for 19 years.
    I did have someone once point out to me that the exposed toe cap was a hazard around electricity (I turned them in and got a new pair).

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  9. If the toes in your boots look like that I bet 30 pair of jeans with the knees wore out look worse. My experience anyway.

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