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Originally Posted by BadNick
....I had a pair so I remember those shoes that had sort of a lever across the front where the tongue is and you would push it forward to loosen and snap back to tighten them....what the hell where they called?
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From an August 28, 1957 newspaper ad.... I remember getting blisters from my new pair of Snap-Jacks....
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Huge fad at the time....no photos of the mechanical external shoe tongues to be found on the net.
I remember when the B-52 bomber first flew. Wait!!! No I don't, it's ageless.
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http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/...0th/story2.htm
....Nov. 25, 1956
Operation Quick Kick: Four B-52Bs of the 93rd Bomb Wing and four B-52Cs of the 42nd Bomb Wing completed a 16,000-mile nonstop flight around the perimeter of North America. The flight required four in-flight refuelings and included a pass over the North Pole....
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