The recent incident involving president Bush (previously at Neatorama) inspired RJ Evans to investigate the meaning of the thrown shoe outside the Middle East. He found many examples of the flung shoe (or is it flinged?) as a cultural meme or even as art. The "shoe tree" shown is outside of Fallon, Nevada. Link -Thanks, RJ!
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Philly tradition.
in the sneaker community shoes on power lines are beaters that can't be resold...sometimes cool shoes will get tossed a little early and people will talk about that awesome pair of whatever at the intersection of this and that.
What is the story behind shoe trees? Surely there is some kind of folklore to inspire people around the world to do this? Neatorama, what say you?