Late in October 1970, Gygax lost his job at the insurance company and then became a shoe repairman, which gave him more time for pursuing his interest in game development.

During the 1970s, the expertise of podiatrists also became important in athletic shoe design, to implement new design features based on how feet reacted to specific actions, such as running, jumping, or side-to-side movement.

As barefoot running became popular by the late 20th and early 21st century, many modern shoe manufacturers have recently designed footwear that mimic this experience, maintaining optimum flexibility and natural walking while also providing some degree of protection.

However, by the early 1920s, the major employer of the region became Endicott Johnson, a shoe manufacturer whose development of welfare capitalism resulted in many amenities for local residents.

Her solution became, over time, the precursor of the modern pointe shoe, as pointe work became less painful and easier for curved feet.

Ferndale's downtown shopping area, 9 Mile Road, featured many busy, popular stores in the 1940s to 1960s, including A & P Supermarket, State Supermarket ( which later became Food Fair, and eventually Farmer Jack ), Federal Department Store, Cunningham's Drugs, Hagelstein's Bakery, F & M Drugs ( the first store in the chain ), Sanders Bakery, Western Auto, several clothing and shoe stores, Ferndale Lanes ( a 20-lane second-story bowling alley over a group of stores on 9 Mile west of Woodward ), Kresge's, Woolworth's and Neisner " dime stores.

In Auburn, shoe manufacturing became the dominant industry by the late 19th century.

Haverhill became the first American city with a socialist mayor in 1898 when it elected former shoe factory worker and cooperative grocery store clerk John C. Chase.

It was during the Civil War that shoe production became a significant component of the town's economic life, and production moved decidedly from the home and into factories.

And the worse and more unwearable the shoes became, the more the people had to buy, and the more money the shops made until it became economically impossible to build anything other than shoe shops.

The city became the centre for managing an international supply and manufuacturing chain, ranging from Malaysia where rubber was bought ; through India where, in the city of Batanagar, a shoe factory was constructed ; to Argentina from where leather hides were imported.

The present town grew up in the 19th century with the development of the boot and shoe industry, for which Northamptonshire as a whole became famous.

Manufacturing plants and foundries were built and Philadelphia became an important center of paper-related industries and the leather, shoe, and boot industries.

Early in his political career, in 1915, Kaganovich became a Communist organizer for a shoe factory where he worked.

Oadby remained a small settlement until the late 19th century when it became a fashionable suburb for the factory-owners of Leicester's shoe and stocking manufacturers.

At the time, he created the Thom McAn shoe line, which became popular.

In 1989 and 1990, Jackson's name became known beyond just sports fans through the " Bo Knows " advertising campaign, a series of advertisements by Nike, that starred Jackson alongside Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bo Diddley, promoting a cross-training athletic shoe named for Jackson.

Gavin quit school after eighth grade and became a full time clerk at a shoe store for $ 12. 50 a week.

He was on the cover of several fitness magazines and became renowned for being the focus of an entire K-Swiss shoe campaign before he had even reached the pros.

Early recorded usages of " spokestoon ", in newspaper articles of October 1995 related to the Disney Corporation's use of characters from The Lion King to promote good nutrition in children, were preceded by a March 25 1995 feature in the Portland, Maine Press Herald, noting " Buster Brown, the comic strip character who became the " spokestoon " for the children's shoe line.

The key figure in the Michigan organization which later became the PPA was a Scottish born shoe store owner named John Keracher, in association with a tool and die maker named Dennis Batt and radical activists Al Renner and H. M. Wicks.

In his act, Jordan came up with the catch-phrase, " Welcome to our Toast of the Town ' Shoooo '", which became a stereotypical joke for nearly every Sullivan imitator after that, usually as the more generic " Really Big ' Shoooo '" ( or " shoe ").< ref >

It contains some of Chaplin's most famous gags, such as the Tramp eating his shoe and the " Dance of the Rolls ", and he later said it was the film he would most like to be remembered for.

This world famous shoe brand originated in Loon op Zand.

Don Adams, as Maxwell Smart, holding the famous shoe phone.

His stories are memorable ; people who cannot recall title or author will nevertheless remember " the story about the people who lived in the department store " (" Evening Primrose "), or " the story in which the famous beauties that the man magically summons all say, ' Here I am on a tiger-skin again '" (" Bottle Party "), or the one in which " the mean father who refuses to believe his son is gobbled up, with only one foot in a shoe left on the stairs " ( Thus I Refute Beelzy ).

While many believe that the first basketball shoe was the famous Converse All Stars ( developed in 1917 ), this is mistaken.

The birth of the modern pointe shoe is often attributed to the early 20th century Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova, who was one of the most famous and influential dancers of her time.

Khadir was nickamed Godasse after throwing a shoe on an effigy of George W. Bush in 2008, during a protest held in Montreal for journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, famous for throwing a pair of shoes at the U. S. President in Iraq.

Wangfujing is now home to around 280 famous Beijing brands, such as Shengxifu hat store, Tongshenghe shoe shop, and the Wuyutai tea house.

Santa Maria da Feira is a heavily industrialized municipality and is famous for its several cork transforming and shoe factories.

Chuck Taylor is famous for inventing and making the Chuck Taylor Basketball Converse shoe.

His most famous works have been the decoration of the church of St. Mary in Hof / Saale in 1925, the war memorials at the chapel of Marlesreuth, the paintings for the entrance hall at the former Panda shoe manufacture in Naila.

Arguably one of Vucci's most famous photographs is his shot from Sunday, December 14, 2008 of Muntadar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at U. S. President George W. Bush.

A famous false etymology states that the word stems from the supposed perception that the Irish spoke English so peculiarly that it was as if they did so " with a shoe in their mouths ".

On June 19, 1995, FBI expert William Bodziak testified that the famous bloody shoe prints at the scene of the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman had been left by a size-12 pair of $ 230 Bruno Magli shoes (" Lorenzo " model ).

During the campaign, a photograph revealed a hole in the sole of Adlai's right shoe.

New Mexico architect Alexander Girard, Italian fashion designer Emilio Pucci, and shoe designer Beth Levine were called in, and with this new creative talent, Braniff began the " End of the Plain Plane " campaign.

The campaign was financed by a number of prominent Gold Coast property developers ( commonly known as the " white shoe brigade "), many of whom had benefited from favourable treatment from the Bjelke-Petersen state government.

The first individual instalment of the campaign was entitled, " Rediscover Technology ", and featured Chris Cole's signature shoe.

** William M. Gallagher of Flint ( Mich .) Journal, for a photo of ex-Governor Adlai E. Stevenson with a hole in his shoe taken during the 1952 Presidential campaign.