SHADES OF ANOTHER TIME
Reintroducing the Chuck Taylor
Classic All Star' from Converse.
Old movies, comic books, songs from the sixties.
Seems like whatever was big in the past, is huge now.
And the comeback everybody has their eye on is being
staged by one of the most vintage classics of all-Chuck
Taylor All Stars, from
They give you the timelverse.
ss look of original 'Chucks.' The
black leather eyelets. The ankle patch. The black rubber
outsole. It's a look that's been away just long enough to be
'discovered. You'll be seeing them on the street, in khaki,
black, red, navy, and olive canvas. Which is why you'll
want to see them at your local Converse
dealer.
Chuck Taylor Classic All Stars.
They're a fashion idea whose time has
come. Again.
The first ad
CONVERSE
for our new shoe
ran 63 years ago.
It was 1917. Before
there was an NBA. Be
fore anybody was play-
ing basketball for a living.
Chuck Taylor, like most
semi-pros, needed a second job
so he could continue playing the game
he loved. He went to Converse, a small com-
pany in Malden, Massachusetts. They had
just started making basketball shoes, and
hired Chuck as a salesman. But before be
started selling the shoes that would soon be
called "Chucks," he suggested Converse
make a few improvements. The young com-
pany took the advice of their new salesman,
and "The Ambassador of Basketball" went
on to single-handedly make "Chucks" the
most famous shoe in the game.
THE
chuck
Taylop
CLASSIC
ALLSTAR
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Publisher
Edward Riggins
Editor
Kevin J. Thatcher
Photo Editor
M.Fo
Assistant to the Publisher
Richard Noll
Production Manager
Associate Art Director
An Rafferty
Art Director
Enrico Chandoha
Camera/Graphics
Bryce Kanights
Copy Editor
Kurt Carlson
Typography
Ken McGuire
Darkroom Tech
Tom Cogan
Music Edito
Brian Schroeder
Editorial Staff
Rick Blackhart, Bonnie Blouin,
Chef-Boy-Am-I-Hungry, Lowboy, Jake Phelps
Billy Runaway, C.R. Stecyk I
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Pleasant Gelman
Don Redondo,
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ter, Gerry Hurtado,
n, Mike G
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rol Schutzbank
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Bruce Rhodes, Ron Schneider
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Lisa Weidman
Product Sales Manager
Matt Etheridge
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Shipping
Rob Kamm, Rick Rotsaert, Dan Sargent
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