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Full color 10" x 14" ad for their shoes with Arch-Gard. The headline claims that "Arch-Gard is the Right way to Fot Speed, Foot Comfort, Foot Protection & Foot Health". There is a diagram that proves that it "Guards ALl 3 Vital Points" and the ad shows a sample of their Cosmo shoe and the Crown Oxford with a short description. |
May 7, 1951 Life magazine |
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| Fila |
Full color 7 3/4" x 10 1/2" ad that illustrates three of their Tennis Shoes. Pictured in the ad are a Men's 1-1005, a Men's 1-6117 and a Women's 5-6119. The text gives details about the exceptional Performance, the Comfort and the Style. |
August 25, 1986 Sports Illustrated |
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$7.50 |
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| Grip Sure |
Three color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Basket Ball Shoe. The ad has a good drawing of these classic sports shoes and assures you that "The wonderful suction cup soles give you a sure footing every time". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 1924 The American Boy |
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$9.00 |
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| Grip Sure |
Three color 10" x 13" ad for their athletic shoes. The headline calls them "The shoes with the patented suction cup soles" and the text claims this design offers speed with safety. This single shoe is claimed to make you a winner "in basket-ball, running, boxing, wrestling, bowling-any kind of sport, indoors or out". Another headline says that "Sure-footedness brings you victory and safety - and may bring you money too!" and a box at the left of the page explains this claim. A contest was underway with the object to send a letter in explaining how these shoes made your athletic endevor possible whether it was a sporting event or something like climbing a mountain. There was going to be a total of 46 winners with $500 in prize money spread out with $100 to the Grand Prize winner. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 1925 The American Boy |
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$9.00 |
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| Keds |
Black and white 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Athletic Shoes. This ad dwells upon results and claims that there have been "Thirteen NationL Championships won on Keds!" and shows a picture of a man serving in a tennis match. The ad lists the National Tennis Championships that had been won in the previous year by contestants wearing Keds and makes the claims that "That's why champion tennis players today almost without exception wear Keds". Shown in the ad are an example of one of their Crepe-sole Keds that were popular, a Keds Oxford that was "designed for general wear as well as for sports" and an athletic-trim Keds that looks like at least a size 20. The text gives a price range of from $1.25 to $4.50 per set. |
May 1925 The American Boy |
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$9.00 |
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| Keds |
Black and white 10" x 13" ad for their Athletic Shoes. The headline calling it "The Shoe of Champions" is over pictures of a man making a serve in tennis, another about to make a return in handball and a picture of The Original Celtics - National Professional Basketball Champions. Claims are made that a large number of players in all three of these sports wear Keds. The ad shows a picture of the Basketball Shoe and an All-Purpose Shoe which together probably covered the whole field of sports. The prices ranged from $1.25 to $4.50 and the ad claimed that "They are not Keds unless the name Keds is on the shoe". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 1925 The American Boy |
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$9.00 |
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| Keds |
Full color 7 3/4" x 11" ad for their Tennis Ace Pro-Keds. The ad has a picture of a single shoe under the headline "The USLTA, the same people who pick the Davis and Wrightman Cup teams, just discovered a new star." The ad text, in addition to describing features of this shoe, mentions that if you are impressed by this shoe there were two more styles of Pro-Keds that were endorsed by the USLTA. |
April 29, 1968 Sports Illustrated |
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| Nike |
Full color 7 3/4" x 10 1/2" ad for their Windrunner Performance Running Shoe. Pictured in the ad is a well-used pair of these shoes, one placed with the sole up and the other with the top up, and the headline calls them "Affordable Sweat". The text claims they give you "everything you ever wanted in a performance running shoe" and lists these as Nike-Air cushioning, Traction, Support and Stability, all at a price "you can afford to sweat over". |
August 25, 1986 Sports Illustrated |
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$7.00 |
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| Nike |
Full color 9 1/4" x 11 1/2" ad for their Air Huarache shoes. There is a picture of one of these shoes, white with purple trim, with a large headline above it asking "Have you hugged your foot today?" We are imformed that this shoe "stretches with your foot". |
February 20, 1992 Rolling Stone |
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| Puma |
Three color 7 3/4" x 10 1/2" ad for their Tennis Shoes. The ad has a picture from the side of one of their shoes and the headline sternly says "We're taking Boris Becker and Martina Navratilova to court". The text clears the confusion of this dramatic headline by claiming to "help them prosecute their court opponents". The ad urges you to visit your Puma dealer and look at their Becker Ace as well as their full line of tennis shoes, clothes and rackets. It then insiste that Puma is "judged by Boris and Martina as the best way to make a court appearance" |
August 25, 1986 Sports Illustrated |
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