WHEN I WAS A KID

When I was a kid, I played sports and my two sisters took lessons - piano one year and tap dance another. Neither became a tap dancing musician.  

Tap dancing, you say!  Most youngsters today have never seen a tap dancer.  Maybe they are extinct. Anyway, in the 1950's, they  gave the lessons at our school.  My parents had to take their dress shoes to the cobbler and have taps put on them.  These were metal discs which were nailed to the soles and heels.  The funny thing was that they only had one pair of dress shoes and they made a loud clicking sound wherever they went - especially in a quiet church.  The loud walking noise didn't go over too well with the nuns who ran our school and tap classes were discontinued after one or two years.

I also remember that many families put those metal taps on their kids shoes even if they didn't take tap dance because they made the shoes last longer.  It was common at that time to take shoes with worn out soles or heels to the shoe cobbler and have them repaired.
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