{"id":1366,"date":"2011-01-10T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2012-05-07T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T02:31:08","slug":"snap-jack-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/archives\/1366","title":{"rendered":"Snap Jack Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shu-Lok Shoes, Part 3:<\/p>\n<p>The Talon Shu-Lok fastener was used by several different shoe manufacturers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thom_McAn\" target=\"new_window\">Thom McAn<\/a>, in the late 1950&#8217;s and early 1960&#8217;s. They came to be knows as &#8220;Snap Jacks,&#8221; &#8220;Mousetraps,&#8221; or &#8220;Grasshoppers,&#8221; and were apparently prized in Rockabilly circles because musicians like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Perkins\" taget=\"new_window\">Carl Perkins<\/a> were <a href=\"http:\/\/vintageengineerboots.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/shu-lok-snap-jack-shoes.html\" target=\"new_window\">photographed<\/a> wearing them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/shu-lok-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"It&#039;s a SNAP!\" width=\"500\" height=\"775\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1367\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/red-ad-shu-lok.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"red-ad-shu-lok\" width=\"274\" height=\"706\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/red-ad-shu-lok.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/red-ad-shu-lok-116x300.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/red-ad-shu-lok-58x150.jpg 58w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/232273335.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Adjust Shu-Lok\" width=\"267\" height=\"664\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/232273335.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/232273335-60x150.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve been able to find out. If you know anything else about them, drop me a line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shu-Lok Shoes, Part 3: The Talon Shu-Lok fastener was used by several different shoe manufacturers, including Thom McAn, in the late 1950&#8217;s and early 1960&#8217;s. They came to be knows as &#8220;Snap Jacks,&#8221; &#8220;Mousetraps,&#8221; or &#8220;Grasshoppers,&#8221; and were apparently prized in Rockabilly circles because musicians like Carl Perkins were photographed wearing them. And that&#8217;s all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/archives\/1366\">&#x276F;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigcorvin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}