Does anyone remember

[Sld1959]

The 60s tall green lace up rubber uninsulated boots with the yellow tan soles? All the rural kids I know wore them constantly all spring, fall and even winter with heavier socks.

If you sprung a leak before it was time to get your new pair for the year you used bread wrappers over your socks.

Summer time out came your tennis shoes with the red circle on the ankle.tennis shoes were appropriate substitues for the boots in all seasons also.

 

[mikep]

The 60s tall green lace up rubber uninsulated boots with the yellow tan soles? All the rural kids I know wore them constantly all spring, fall and even winter with heavier socks.

If you sprung a leak before it was time to get your new pair for the year you used bread wrappers over your socks.

Summer time out came your tennis shoes with the red circle on the ankle.tennis shoes were appropriate substitues fir the boots in all seasons also.

i don't know the name but i got all my brother's hand me down ones that were already leaking. i hated those boots!

 

[Sld1959]

i don't know the name but i got all my brother's hand me down ones that were already leaking. i hated those boots!

Luckily I was the oldest, lol. They are the reason to this day I do not own a pair of rubber boots.

 

[mikep]

 

[Snake45]

I never had them, but I remember seeing them around, and your pic was exactly what I had in mind. So they're a thing of the past, now?

 

[mikep]

i saw one brand in looking for that picture called "ground gainer". i spent many days shoveling snow with frozen wet feet wearing them as a kid. they were awful.

 

[Sld1959]

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That's them God wonder how many pairs I had over the years lol. What brand are they.

 

[Sld1959]

i saw one brand in looking for that picture called "ground gainer". i spent many days shoveling snow with frozen wet feet wearing them as a kid. they were awful.

Yeah feet were always cold in them. If thry bought them large enough for several pairs of socks they fell off your feet when you ran. So parents compromised and let your feet freeze lol.

 

[mikep]

That's them God wonder how many pairs I had over the years lol. What brand are they.

the only name i came up with was "ground gainer".

 

[Sld1959]

I see they had insulated models also, my parents never mentioned insulated ones lol

 

[mikep]

I see they had insulated models also, my parents never mentioned insulated ones lol

insulated?! never! cold feet and frost bit makes you tuff!
by the time i grew into my brother's boots from 2 seasons prior the "rubber" was dry rotted and cracking. until i was no longer able to wear his hand me downs i was under the assumption that all boots leaked.

 

[Area52]

Might be LaCrosse boots. Army surplus store used to sell them 1970’s. I can still remember the musky smell of that place.

 

[Sld1959]

Might be LaCrosse boots. Army surplus store used to sell them 1970’s. I can still remember the musky smell of that place.

The ones he showed from Ground Gainer are them, I will never forget the look they are exactly like I remember down to the green stripe on the side of the sole lol.

 

[Snake45]

Might be LaCrosse boots. Army surplus store used to sell them 1970’s. I can still remember the musky smell of that place.

I've been in surplus stores in 5 or 6 different states and they all smell that way. That's how you know you're getting Genuine GI Surplus and not just a bunch of fake Chinese junk!

 

[SimonRL]

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Those laces would freeze solid after a couple of hours of romping in the snow after school.

 

[nmedge]

I used to have a few pairs of those, oh the memories of wet feet!

 

[TEXASforLIFE]

The 1's we wore had the metal closures and they froze also.

 

[Jfal]

I was envious of kids who had those...my parents bought me black rubber pull-overs with little metal clasps instead of laces. You'd wear your sneakers inside them. Horribly cold POS boots. Those green and yellow ones were way better than I had. At least that's what I thought at the time...

 

[bc22wm]

We used beard bags to keep our feet warm, worked to. If the boot spung a leak, we fixed them with innertube fix-it-patch. By we fixed means us kids. If you bothered an adult with something like that you would get a wack and told to get to fixing it with the innertube patch out in the barn. "Do a good job and don't be wasting it." By spring everyone had any number of black dots on their boots.
The better ones had felt boot that went inside, and you could buy extra felts.

 

[Annihilator]

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This is what we need to wear around here when the gets deep…..