Club Obi Wan

Just curious. I think I remember reading an old thread where a member drove 2 hours to pick up a pair of Aldens. I might be in the same boat as there are 3 shops close to me and they are all about 2 hours away.

I could also order online from Aldenshop, but then I run into the problem of ordering the wrong size(I'm pretty sure I know my size, but better safe than sorry). And the shipping is crazy. $40.00US to ship to Canada VIA UPS....plus add the $50+ UPS brokerage fee means more than a third of the cost will be for shipping.

I drove about 1800 miles (Seattle to Fredrick Basic Shoes) ... kind of. I was going to order a pair, then decided to wait and have Fritz take my measurements and buy them from him while I was down for the QM gathering.

I drove to work and called the DC store, should be here today. Thanks Bufflehead.

Well for my old pair I went about 20 miles. For my new pair, I went from St. Louis to San Francisco....although getting the Aldens wasn't the sole purpose of my trip. Actually it wasn't even a purpose--I was just in town and thought I would pop on down and I decided that it would be a pretty good time to get a new pair. It was kind of funny that when I went in with my older looking beat up pair, the guy behind the desk didn't think anything of it (he even gave me a new pair of shoe laces)! Anyone else gone to that store with some rugged Alden's?


-James

Indiana Jess wrote:I drove about 1800 miles (Seattle to Fredrick Basic Shoes) ... kind of. I was going to order a pair, then decided to wait and have Fritz take my measurements and buy them from him while I was down for the QM gathering.

Same here...only I came from Texas...I'm not sure how many miles that is, but it's probably more than from Seattle...although I wasn't planning to get them at the time, but Fritz offered them to me at a great price and they were 1980's stock to boot. I couldn't resist.

Indiana Texas-girl wrote: they were 1980's stock to boot. I couldn't resist.

Did I read that right ITG? How in the world did they still have a 80's stock boot? How long ago did you get these?

Regards,
'81

indy81, Yeah, you read that right. I got them in June 2003. Since I have a smaller foot than most guys (but big foot for a girl), he still had some 9C's that hadn't sold.

Indycire wrote:I drove to work and called the DC store, should be here today. Thanks Bufflehead.

Glad I was able to help.

I will be going from St. Louis to San Francisco in about 6 weeks.
Of course I’ll have my Aldens on. We will be staying 5 or 6 blocks from the Alden shop, so I plan on walking over. Don’t need a new pair though, but I will stock up on laces.
1735 miles to buy shoelaces for my “Indy boots”........sounds OK to me.....
Regards,
Forrestal

I'm planning on driving from Fresno to SF around christmas time to
get properly measured while visiting with family down there.

Regards,
Indybill

Forrestal, I think I may have gotten mine free. Maybe it's something about being from St. Louis, then again, it might just be my shoddy memory. Btw, a trip from StL to SF isn't a bad idea for shoelaces--my father used to fly from StL to NY to have lunch on a whim, and then fly back. Quite the day trip!


-James

Free or not, I plan on picking up about 10 pair of laces.
That way I can quit searching all over town for something that works.
Regards,
Forrestal

I actually did find something here in St. Louis that works once........... but it's been so long I've forgotten. Actually I've been forgetting a lot lately--I may be losing my mind.


-James

P.S. YES only maybe!

I flew from Michigan to San Francisco. Of course, that was on my way to Australia. My flight got delayed by chance, and I took it upon myself to explore the city, where I luckily stumbled upon the Alden shop and got myself a pair!!!

Scotland to California... ok so I didn't know I was gonna come home with Aldens but I did!

Ken

Indiana Ken wrote:Scotland to California... ok so I didn't know I was gonna come home with Aldens but I did!

Well, I said I wasn't gonna to spend that much on a pair of shoes and when we went into Fritz's shop, I couldn't resist. Ken sounds like we both had pure intentions, but couldn't resist the Aldens placed in front of us. Hahaa!