
154: #154 Shoes feat. Mike James
The Nateland Podcast
The History of Converse Shoes
The first sneakers were kids in a bit in 1917 by a Adidas. Jesse Owen won four gold medals that 1936 Olympics were in Adidas. In 1923 Converse hired a basketball player named Chuck Taylor. He had the first kind of shooting named after him and Chuck Taylor is just still around today. Those shoes are ironic because how can you play ball in those? They have no support.
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