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This is a 1932 advertisement for Goodrich Sport Shoes made by the B.F. Goodrich Footwear Corp., Watertown, Massachusetts. --- The B.F. Goodrich rubber shoes were some of the great tire/rubber company shoe brands. But they weren’t the only ones. In fact, in consumers’ minds, there was a vast difference between sneakers and tennis shoes and regular shoes. B. F. Goodrich not only made Jack Purcell tennis shoes, but they made SeaVees, a sort of rubber soled canvas Top-Sider, and PF Flyers.
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