Archive for the 'Shoefiti in the Press' Category
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Shoefiti Strikes Honolulu, Hawaii
Apparently, shoefiti correlates with magic shops in Honolulu. Who knew?
The Daily Dish - The little magic shop on Auld Lane
It’s a quiet lane in Palama, one with shoes hanging from power lines and kids ride around on bicycles.
But if you slow down, you might find it.
Zuke’s Magic & Jokes.
Published by admin on March 8th, 2007 tagged Shoe Sightings, Shoefiti in the Press | Comment now »
Shoefiti in the Press: Lawrence, Kansas
Shoefiti.com received some press coverage in the Lawrence Journal-World:
Laces wild | LJWorld.com
That’s the same question Ed Kohler’s been pondering seriously for three years.
After he bought his first home in Minneapolis in 2004, he started noticing that a lot of shoes seemed to be popping up on power lines in his neighborhood.
Long story short, he [...]
Published by admin on March 5th, 2007 tagged Shoefiti in the Press | Comment now »
South Bend, Indiana Addresses Shoes on Powerline Issue
South Bend, Indiana, home of Notre Dame University, addressed their shoes on powerline issue by removing over 100 pairs of shoes in a recent sweep. Local TV station WNDU covered the clean-up and correlated the shoes with drug dealing in their news report.
Hanging shoe clean-ups focused on “weed and seed” areas of town. If shoes [...]
Published by admin on February 26th, 2006 tagged Shoefiti in the Press | Comment now »
A Shoefiti Story from Milwaukee
A Milwaukee, Wisconsin writer reflects on what shoes on phone lines mean, and why he can’t stop obsessing about them:
Some thoughts on shoes
On a street near my house there is a pair of red and white tennis shoes hanging off a phone line.I can hear everyone reading that statement thinking, �End of story right. So [...]
Published by admin on November 22nd, 2005 tagged Shoefiti in the Press | Comment now »
NY Times Explores Shoes On Powerlines Phenomenon
The New York Times took at look at the shoes on powerlines phenomenon on November 15th (hat tip to Joe, commenting at tim.lauer.name ).
South Bronx Shoes on Powerlines
A few observations and quotes:
Some of them said they did it to claim the neighborhood as their own,
to represent, one young man said, “the ghetto where we [...]
Published by admin on November 21st, 2005 tagged Shoefiti in the Press | Comment now »
Cincinnati takes Shoefiti Seriously: Includes Video of Local News Story
A police officer in Cincinnati is doing something about shoefiti in his town (Link to WCPO transcript and the video news story ):
Have you ever seen shoes dangling from power lines in your
neighborhood? It has become an all too common site in Cincinnati and
that has a lot of neighbors upset.
“The kind of understood meaning is [...]
Published by admin on October 2nd, 2005 tagged Shoefiti in the Press | Comment now »
Los Angeles Mayor Puts City Crews to Work on Shoefiti Abatement
Here
is a 2003 news story about Shoefiti (described as "Dangling Shoes" by the Los Angeles NBC affiliate ) and how it’s being addressed by the Los Angeles Mayor (James Hahn) and Police Chief (William Bratton). Notice that the mayor and police chief stopped short of claiming the shoese are drug, gang, or prostitution [...]