Shoe Trees

[kinmount5]

To read all about the history of the Shoe Trees from their creation to destruction visit kinmountshoetrees.blogspot.com

[kinmount5]

The Kinmount Shoe Trees were demolished in Oct. 2011. Google Kinmount Shoe Trees for details.

[Pubgoer]

In the UK it definitely is the sign of drug dealer but I didn't know in Canada as it's the first time I've seen it here since I arrived two years ago.

[GeraldBoyClassical]

@Pubgoer I've never heard of it being an indication of a drug dealer; if you watch the video, you'll see there are hundreds of shoes on trees, hanging from wires ... this is outside a small town, and I just can't see the entire town being drug dealers, lol !!

[Pubgoer]

@GeraldBoyClassical

I don't mean the shoe TREE,I mean an ind

ividual pair slung over a power line in a residentail area

[Pubgoer]

It is my understanding that a pair of shoes draped over a hydro line in a residential area indicates a drug dealer location ....Anyone else heard that ?

[GeraldBoyClassical]

@Pubgoer Not in Kinmount.

[GeraldBoyClassical]

@Pubgoer I've never heard of this being an indication of a drug dealer

[thebiz76]

@GeraldBoyClassical it is in neiborhoods

[83smileyface]

So that's where all my shoes have been going?

And now I know where my kids have been putting theirs.Just so they can get a new pair!

I bet that tree smells really good!LOL

Thanks for sharing your shoe tree!

[GeraldBoyClassical]

Hmm.... maybe there's a tree out there with all the missing socks from the dryer??

[dlpine]

why do see shoes draped over telephone lines crossing streets while i'm driving? and i thought i had smelled a skunk!! LOL

thanks, for sharing, BJ! great post, gerald!

~david

[GeraldBoyClassical]

Obviously at some point the hydro guys have to come with their cherry picker and remove the shoes, or the line is going to break with the weight of them. We'll drive by one time and there are six pairs hanging on the wires. Next time, no shoes. Next time, three pairs....

[wizardeal]

Now i thought a shoe tree was a piece of wood with a bunch of protruding pieces to hand shoes on that people put in their closet

[GeraldBoyClassical]

Yes, wizardeal, that's what I thought a shoe tree was too! Now I'm thinking - if those trees ever fall, how are they going to cut them up, with all the nails in them??

[pili2255]

Fantastic!!! 5*****

Gaby.

[GeraldBoyClassical]

Thanks, Gaby!  Sure see some crazy things when you're driving along...

[thisisjust4us]

I think it is a great idea: Clothes you can't wear anymore or shoes, boots etc you hang them up e.g in a tree and anyone can take them home; recycling.

But I think the shoe tree started as a joke and more and more people added their old shoes to those trees.

x

[GeraldBoyClassical]

Well, the problem with that is - almost all of the shoes are NAILED to the trees and posts! So they're not re-usable. But I've noticed since I posted my video that there are others like it, so this isn't a one-time thing. It seems to be a fad!

[ajdpadbury]

How strange! I have no idea why they should be there, I look forward to reading the answers!:)

[GeraldBoyClassical]

I know, Anthony - I am too !

[ickycan]

While I can't speak for other people, we have a family shoe tree. At the end of each camping season, we hang the shoes we grew out of, wore out, etc. As we look at them years later the memories come flooding back... its also sort of fun

[GeraldBoyClassical]

Hmm, so it's a camping tradition... Maybe that's the way it is with these trees. Assuming that the people doing it drive by the trees on their way to their cottage too. Maybe they don't have trees of their own??