Sneakers, tennis shoes, easy walkers

[trof]

When I was a kid I got a new pair of black, high top, lace up canvas shoes. They had a white circular rubber patch on the inside ankles.
I think they were PF Flyers.

Granny called them 'easy walkers', so that's what I called them.
I put those shoes on and I felt like I could fly like the wind.

Brits call them 'plimsolls', or at least they used to.
What do you call them?

[randr]

1. Keds

[Squinch]

2. PF Flyers! Make you run faster, jump higher!

[trof]

3. Sure felt like that.

[Harker]

8. The 'action wedge'... n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. That's what I was going to say. I had PF Flyers when I was a kid.

I went from PF Flyers to Keds. I went from Keds to Chuck Taylor Converse All-Stars.

Mon Aug 19, 2019: What w: s your sneaker brand growing up?

[dhill926]

4. I remember PF Flyers...

and it's nice to remember anything at this point...

[Dave in VA]

5. Mine were Converse

white hightops. At least they were white when my parents purchased them.

Older brother had black ones. His foot was larger then, but I would sneak them and put newspaper in the toes and wear them sometimes.

[uppityperson]

7. Tennies

I've learned to call them sneakers, but they are tennies.

[trof]

10. I do remember tennies.

[3Hotdogs]

9. I'm Buster Brown. I live in a shoe. That's my dog, Tide. He lives in there, too.

BB was advertised on Andy's Gang on NYC local tv.

The model for Buster Brown was 4 year old, Milton Berle.

[trof]

11. I think the dog was Tige, short for Tiger?

Look for him in there too.

The ones I had curled up like Persian slippers.

[3Hotdogs]

12. ---learn sumthin new every day.