You may not know the creator, but you certainly know the shoes.

I am 90 years old. It’s hard to imagine how the America I grew up in became the one we live in today. As a young man, I spent hours working in my father’s barn churning out sparklers. My dad was an inventor and entrepreneur. He perfected a process for making the sparklers kids play with on the Fourth of July. My job was to attach a few dozen sticks to a wooden frame and dip them into a barrel of flammable compound. I was the assembly line.

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