My Dad's 1945 Star Brand Basketball Sneakers / B.F. Goodrich Sole / Original Box

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Star Brand basketball shoes, in original box, purchased by my father in 1945, just before he started his junior year in high school.
He has a habit of dating everything he purchases, and this is no exception. The end of the box carrying the product name has the pencil notation, “8-12-45,” in his handwriting. They were purchased in downtown Freeport, Illinois, likely at the now-defunct Messing & Becker Sporting Goods.
The shoes are natural plain toe blucher. Each shoe features a round logos on the inside upper from B.F. Goodrich, producer of the shoe’s soles.
Unknown size, but the shoes are 12” long and the widest part of the soles is 4”, putting them in the neighborhood of a men’s 11.
Original box measures 13” x 7” x 5”.
Manufactured by Roberts, Johnson & Rand, a division of International Shoe Company, St. Louis.
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