"We call them laces and say our competitors make shoestrings," Orloff quipped as he moved along the whirring machinery .... (1975).
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Sylvan Orloff quote from the pages of the Middlesboro Daily News (23 June 1975).
Image courtesy of the Scioto Historical Collection, Digital History Lab, Clark Memorial Library, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.
This file appears in: Sole Choice & the Portsmouth Shoe Industry
Sole Choice & the Portsmouth Shoe Industry
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