The Shoe Tree
(sorry for the crumpled newspaper pic)
There's a landmark in San Diego that I have yet to see. And I'm a native. It's in Balboa Park, and it's called the Shoe Tree. This whimical wonder fascinates me. A story about this American phenomenon here. And a story from the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper, January 7, 2006, entitled Lost soles reach for Heaven (I love that!).
This is unrelated, but in my search to see if I could find a clearer image to post than the one in the newspaper, I came across this.
There's a landmark in San Diego that I have yet to see. And I'm a native. It's in Balboa Park, and it's called the Shoe Tree. This whimical wonder fascinates me. A story about this American phenomenon here. And a story from the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper, January 7, 2006, entitled Lost soles reach for Heaven (I love that!).
This is unrelated, but in my search to see if I could find a clearer image to post than the one in the newspaper, I came across this.
6 Comments:
Over here we say "It could only happen in America!" Maybe somebody elsewhere on the planet reading this will prove me wrong. I don't think we have any Soul Trees in Oz, but there are several pairs of shoes hanging over powerlines in nearby streets. I always wonder 'what the hell were they trying to prove?'
I have never seen or heard of this before! so cool!
Wow!! Love how that tree now has some color & in a way a new life!
I'd love to see that in person. I live in Pennsylvania and we have the worlds largest pot hole for one of our local landmarks. :(
We had a shoe tree in Eureka Springs Arkansas, but they cut it down last year. It was a sad sad day!
I've never seen that either and I'm at balboa park almost weekly... there is a tree in the rose garden that has a tendancy to have a number of shoes on it though.
wow!...trees look great with shoes instead of leaves....
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