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    Shoe tree falls over during storm.

    Man, this was one of my favorite local landmarks in Balboa Park. In the late 70's for some reason people just started throwing shoes into a tree on the Frisbee Golf course in Balboa park and over the last three decades the tree collected more and more shoes. I haven't played there in a good five years but last time I did go my friends enjoyed watching as one girl got goaded by her friends until she slipped her nickers off from under her skirt and threw her undies into the tree. She had to try a few times before they finally got stuck up there.

    I'm going to miss that tree.

    San Diego Union-Tribune
    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080109-9999-1m9tree.html
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    Picture of the now dead shoe tree.
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      Shoe tree' toppled

      Winds, weight of soggy namesakes do it in
      By Tony Manolatos
      UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

      January 9, 2008


      HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune
      Morley Field Disc Golf Course pro "Snapper" Pierson walked by what's left of the "shoe tree."
      BALBOA PARK – It was called the shoe tree, and it was one of San Diego's strangest landmarks.

      Hundreds of pairs of shoes – sneakers, high heels, Rollerblades, you name it – hung from its branches. For some reason, people tossed their shoes onto the massive tree, which graced hole No. 2 at Morley Field Disc Golf Course for about three decades.

      Tourists – yes, tourists – would drive to Morley Field to get a peek.

      Until Sunday.

      Wicked winds knocked the old tree to the ground. It had died years ago, but it was never cut down because of its popularity.

      Still, not everyone knew about the tree, one of 10 or so throughout Balboa Park lost to the winds.

      Richard Amero, an unofficial park historian, said he'd never heard of the shoe tree. Others are mourning the loss.


      NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune
      Footwear festooned the landmark two years ago.
      “Oh yeah, it's missed,” said Mitch Zunich, who works at the disc golf pro shop. “Everybody is pretty bummed out.”

      Zunich and other park employees suspect all of the rain-soaked shoes did the tree in. They said that when the high winds swooped in, the wet shoes served as anchors, pulling the tree to the ground.

      Yesterday morning, three workers used a chain saw to slice the tree into pieces. The shoes were loaded into two tractor beds – each about the size of a twin bed – and hauled to a nearby Dumpster. It took five trips to get rid of all the shoes.

      Legend has it that the shoe tree started with a bet. The loser of the disc golf game had to toss his shoes into the branches.

      By yesterday afternoon, all that was left of the shoe tree was a single branch and a 6-foot stump. It looked as if the stump had been pushed over; the base was still attached to its roots.


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      All of the shoes were gone, but there were two pairs of laces – one turquoise, the other white – strung around the branch. And what looked like a black handkerchief was actually a pair of Victoria Secret panties.

      “Somehow that's appropriate,” a nearby golfer remarked.

      At some point last year, shoes started showing up on another tree. This one is on hole No. 11.

      Now in Morley Field, disc golfers are waiting for the other shoe tree to drop.
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      • #4
        Treehuggers



        Sorry about your tree

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        • #5
          Re: Shoe tree falls over during storm.

          Originally posted by Oerdin threw her undies into the tree.
          at Peek'n Peak [[skiing/snowboarding/tubing place]] there is an underwear tree that you'd pass going up the lift to the biggest hills.


          there were like 30,000+ people here in erie that lost power because of the wind yesterday. that's what i heard from women that were at the place i was yesterday. i looked it up and found an article.
          http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/NEWS02/793928437/-1/NEWS02

          it didn't effect me at all though.

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          • #6
            Re: Shoe tree falls over during storm.

            Originally posted by Oerdin
            Man, this was one of my favorite local landmarks in Balboa Park.
            Really? Wow.

            Oerdin, buddy...no....
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            • #7
              Re: Re: Shoe tree falls over during storm.

              Originally posted by b etor
              at Peek'n Peak [[skiing/snowboarding/tubing place]] there is an underwear tree that you'd pass going up the lift to the biggest hills.
              Every ski resort has one...

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              • #8
                It was probably weighed down by all the shoes…
                Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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                • #9
                  A public communication brought to you by the cops of Thunder Bay.

                  A clarification...it wasn't the Thunder Bay police, it was the Ontario Provincial Police.
                  "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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                  • #10
                    Fixed!
                    Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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                    • #11
                      Re: Re: Re: Shoe tree falls over during storm.

                      Originally posted by Kuciwalker


                      Every ski resort has one...
                      oh. my bad. it's the only one i've been to.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by MOBIUS
                        It was probably weighed down by all the shoes…
                        That exactly what I was thinking.

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                        • #13
                          At least the public humiliation of this poor tree has come to an end.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DaShi
                            At least the public humiliation of this poor tree has come to an end.



                            I've seen relatives of this tree.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by MOBIUS
                              It was probably weighed down by all the shoes…
                              Nah, trees are pretty sturdy - my guess is that it was the gasses from the shoes that killed it
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