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Bakersfield Shoe house for sale
The Shoe House in Bakersfield, CA is for sale. Remnants of Deschwanden's Shoe Repair, the last business that inhabited the shoe nearly a decade ago, can still be spied through the windows. The Deschwanden family is selling the shoe at Chester Avenue and 10th Street, and two adjacent homes. The shoe has been a Bakersfield fixture since it first appeared in 1947 (same year as the first flying saucer sightings over the US!). It is 20 feet tall and 30 feet long. The price? For the shoe and a small adjacent house, the owners are asking for $99,000.
[02/20/2000]- Address:
- 931 Chester Ave., Bakersfield, CA
- Directions:
- Chester and 10th.
- Phone:
- 661-864-1002
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
- Big Bear Lake, California - Shoe Tree
The Big Bear Shoe Tree has a colorful history. It is also known as "The Old Hanging Tree," and was used many times for prospectors who jumped gold claims in the Holcomb Valley by Big Bear Lake. In fact, the lake itself was dammed by residents who remained after the gold strike of the early 1900s for energy so they could sieve water and gravel easily in the continuing hunt for gold. We still hear of people finding nuggets every spring in the area after the winter rain runoff.
Local Big Bear seniors keep de-shoeing the tree so that it retains that historical ghostly presence as a Hanging Tree.
[Diane Grooms, 08/31/2006]Shoe Tree Unloved by the Elderly:- Directions:
- On Hwy 18, near Baldwin Dry Lake, one mile from Big Bear Lake.
- Hours:
- July 2018: Reported gone.
- Status:
- Gone
This Shoe Tree is along Route 38 on the north side of Big Bear Lake.
[Paul D. DeRocco, 01/26/2006]- Big Bear Lake, California - Shoe Tree
There is a formidable shoe tree just outside of Big Bear City, on Hwy 18, near Baldwin Lake. A few years back, Calif Fish and Game (who own the property the tree sits on) had the tree cleared because they thought the tree was being harmed. The Sierra Club emptied the tree of it's harvest, and the citizens were saddened and angry. Within a week, the tree had new blooms. More colorful and fruitful than ever. That is how it remains.
[Ellen Stohr, 04/28/2005] The Shoe Tree survived the fires of 2003, and despite efforts to clear it, continues to sprout new shoes as old ones are removed.
[Dan, 05/30/2004]
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April 2006 - Unshod in 2006 according to Erin: "I hate to say that they took all the shoes out of this tree."