Comments on: Bronzing Baby’s Shoes

By: Bob Kaynes

Bob Kaynes — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:05:18 +0000

In case anyone wants to have their shoes bronzed today (baby shoes OR any other shoes or keepsakes), just let the professionals do it…the folks who have bronzed over 13,000,000 baby shoes in real metal sicne 1934, the American Bronzing Company. Sentimental parents everywhere are having this done again. Now it’s your turn to continue the tradition or start one of your own. And the prices are VERY reasonable.

Ck out http://www.abcbronze.com for keepsakes you’ll treasure for a lifetime.

By: MrG

MrG — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:12:49 +0000

I have this vague memory the old DOBIE GILLIS show, with Bob Denver in his pre-Gilligan incarnation as beatnik Maynard G. Krebs (”WORK?!”) proudly showing off his bronzed tennis shoes.
He didn’t want to throw them out you see …

Cheers — MrG / http://www.vectorsite.net

By: Eliyahu

Eliyahu — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:44:53 +0000

When I was a toddler in 1950, bronzed baby shoes were the hot thing for young parents. I’ve still got mine. It’s nice to see how they did it then.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:01:15 +0000

Don: Nels Irwin was an evil genius!

By: slim

slim — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:48:48 +0000

When I was a teenager, I spray painted an old pair of loafers with bronze paint and gave them to my Mom as a joke. She actually kept them. Mothers are funny.

By: Toronto

Toronto — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:34:09 +0000

Don – amazingly enought, this project actually USES flocking, too. It’s on the back of the “photo statuette” (see caption 3, pg 97.)

Is Nukemite like Vegemite but more glowy?

By: Don

Don — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:56:42 +0000

There’s that flocking ad again (p. 138)!!

By: Neil Russell

Neil Russell — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:18:59 +0000

I always figured the places that offered bronzing just threw away the shoes and sent back a casting that was all metal.
To demonstrate what a family of procrastinators I come from, my mom was going to have my baby shoes bronzed. I just found the yet-to-be-bronzed shoes in a box at her house and she recounted her desire to have the bronzing done. After all, it’s only been since 1961.

If only I had known they would be Nukemated!! Nukemitemated?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:03:24 +0000

Al Bear: Of course they’re tacky. Unless they are made with Nukemite, then they’re Nuketastically cool!

By: Al Bear

Al Bear — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:29:42 +0000

I always thought bronzed baby shoes were tacky. (when I was 10 and I still do at 36) I’m I the only one who thinks so?