Today the kids and I took our first trip to the Haines Shoe House. I've been past the shoe house 100's of times, but I had never been inside. Well, today we all took our first tour. It is so neat! It is actually a REAL 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house. According to the very nice tour guide, Mr. Haines was a local shoe salesman and constructed the house in 1948 as a "marketing strategy" to draw attention to himself and his product. It must have worked, the man sold leather shoes for $1.79/pair and died a multi-millionaire! Although he never actually lived in the house, he did loan it to newlyweds for their honeymoon. It truly is an awesome house! The kids loved walking through the house and checking out the shoe dog house in the backyard! What a fun (and cheap) "field trip".
No comments:
Post a Comment