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![](http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/static/dowbrigade/<br />
boatshoe.jpg” width=”250″ height=”145″ align=”left”>One<br />
of the lesser known shopping secrets of Boston is a rundown warehouse<br />
in the industrial zone behind the Boston Medical Center know both colloquially<br />
and officially as "Zapatos". As the name suggests they<br />
specialize in shoes, although they also feature cut rate hats, sweats,<br />
roller blades, ice skates, socks and occasionally bizarre odd lots of<br />
stuff like dancing soda cans or glow-in-the-dark religious icons.</p>
<p>Although the clientele is largely Latino, many from the nearby Cathedral<br />
Housing Projects, clued in shoppers from as far away as Maine and New York<br />
make it a regular stop on trips to Beantown. The owner is an old Jewish<br />
guy named Abe Shapiro or something, and he must have an in with<br />
the mob, because Zapatos receives massive daily trailerfuls of brand name<br />
merchandise at steep discounts, no questions asked. Most of the merchandise is in perfect condition, leading us to believe someone is knocking off interstate trucks, or pulling an insurance scam.</p>
<p>Shoes and sneakers are separated and thrown into huge bins according<br />
to sex and size. The bin for 10 and a half sneakers, for example, is<br />
about 10 feet on a side and 3 or 4 feet deep. There are several hundred<br />
pairs of Adidas, Nike, New Balance,Puma, Tretorn, Champion, Converse and<br />
lesser known brands, high tops, low tops, canvas, leather and plastic,<br />
piled<br />
one upon the other and just waiting to be dug out and tried on.</p>
<p>Prices are indicated by and arcane code of letters which represent numbers,<br />
so that TE = $15 and ID = $20, etc. On Tuesday, before leaving for Maine<br />
to visit the Dowbrigade Mom, we paid them a visit and left with three<br />
pairs for $55. We got some new white leather tennis shoes (remember<br />
when all sneakers were called tennis shoes? We are embarassed to admit that we do…) and a pair of bright<br />
blue leather sneakers called 2Pods, for $15 each. And then we splurged<br />
on a pair of slate gray topsiders, very Preppy, for $25.</p>
<p>Therein lay our downfall. In a pique of Kennedyesque fashion machismo,<br />
we wore our brand new topsiders without socks, on a stroll down to the<br />
Common Grounds, a local coffee hangout. By the time we got home we had<br />
worn an excruciating raw spot the size of a quarter, directly on our right<br />
Achilles tendon, and have been limping around ever since. To make matters<br />
worse<br />
later that day we stuffed our right sock with rolled up toilet paper<br />
over the oozing sore and tried to play tennis in our new tennis shoes. </p>
<p>We are working on an extended blog posting titled "Why smart people<br />
do incredibly stupid things." Meanwhile, we highly recommend Zapatos<br />
to Boston area shoe shoppers. It’s located at 90 Wareham St, below<br />
the giant vertical sign reading, appropriately enough, "Zapatos." Stay<br />
tuned…..</p>
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glasscastle posted this entry on Sunday, September 12th, 2004 at 11:57 pm.
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July 31st, 2005 at 10:41 am
sehr gut Saite. Was machen Sie mein Freund?
keep it up !