OUR THANKS GO OUT to our customers who broke all sales records this holiday season - we hope you love these quality vintage kicks as much as we do!
#colchesterrubberco#vintage#repro @ Austin, Texas https://t.co/EzjuER75z6
Most all of the canvas-upper, “classic” sneakers today have been traced back to the Colchester Rubber Co.’s National Treasure Sneaker, originally designed for the *new* game of basketball in 1892.
Discover the vintage original today!
Harry “Bucky” Lew was the first recorded African-American to sign a professional basketball contract. Lew signed with Lowell, MA’s Pawtucket Athletic Club in the New England Basketball League in 1902. On November 2,… https://t.co/IT8TgsT5T7
New box, who dis?
Thanks to the talented @ornelas_luis_ for his art on all our new stock! <psst the Originals are restocked on our website> @ Austin, Texas https://t.co/J0BP2r8N0p
@BillyVallentine We hear you, and thank you so much for the interest in our shoes! We’re focusing on the core sizes to build the brand... with enough sales and expansion, I’d say a year out. :)
Congrats to @Hoophall Class of 2018 posthumous electee Ora Mae Washington (1898-1971)! During the 1930s and 40s, she won 11 straight Colored Women's Basketball World Championship titles and 12 altogether, playing with the Philly- based Germantown Hornets and Tribune Girls!