Going off at a tangent about... shoes?!?

Ah, they don't make kid's shoes like they used to. Well they probably do. Today's children's shoes are probably better than ever. I dunno. I lost interest in them when I stopped being a kid. However, back in 1969 I had a pair of these Wayfinders Moonshot shoes and I thought they were the coolest thing on Earth. (Not that we used the term "cool" in 1969. It had become passé by then. Whose idea was it to resurrect it?)

Anyway, today I received a pile of sixties comics and noticed this advert in one of them. I'd almost forgotten about those shoes. As I was into anything pertaining to space at the time these were essential. Not only did those soles show a Lunascape they were silver too! How futuristic was that? Plus a little removable magnet in the heel, - although that became a bit uncomfortable after the covering wore down. 

There were also a pair with animal tracks on the soles and a compass in the heel but I was only interested in the Moonshot ones. We were living in the Space Age you know, walking on the Moon. Or at least a mini version of it.