Word: florsheim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the fluourescent "FLO" of the Florsheim'sShoes sign was the jewellers' beautifully carvedmarble entrance; a tiny door led into a lobby withtwo brass elevators. I wanted Farr Bros., on the8th; the elevator doors opened into a slightlyancient little world completely removed from theglitz eight stories below. There were six or sevenglass and wood doors in the hallway. Next to theelevator, which had bare blue and red bulbs forits up/down signals, was a glass mail chute with abrass-embossed eagle on the slot...
...August 1941, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox was on his way to batting .406. A pair of businessman's Florsheim shoes cost $9.50. The New York Telephone Co. reported that for the first time in ten years more phones were installed than disconnected. The Works Progress Administration, which only that year had begun making efficient monthly counts of the number of jobless in the U.S., announced that the unemployment rate for August...