This was a great review of Where'd Did You Get Those: New York City's Sneaker Culture:1960-1987 by Bobbito Garcia written by Marissa Avila, who apparently did not spend much time on grammar in school. Sorry Marissa, much love:
For all you guys that have boxes from the floor to the ceiling, to the window to the wall and yes Jermaine I'm talking to you,this book should be staple of your collection (very fast).It's hard work and a lot of money in circulation trying to keep one step ahead of the game. To some, receiving a complement about your shoes is a natural high, or maybe buying shoes and being able to say "i never wore those".
Bobbito Garcia has captured what was done by so many the art of buying and wearing shoes with pride. But most immortally being able to remember stories that came with them for free. From 1960-1987 was about street creed, college and pro's basketball teams and those beats that made dancers do crazy moves. It was all about style and looking hot.
This book has so many photos, advertisements and most immortally shoes you have never seen before and shoes that many would like to forget they wore.(Pink nikes, not hot guys);And the future of sneakers, and what it is now- a shoe game war.
This book is jammed like a jelly roll. It has so many stories about preserving sneak gems.If you would like to be educated and know what many might not, pick up this book. It may be the only thing you would let people borrow.
This book will have you buying with meaning in no time. So watch your backs, wallets and ebay.
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