added to the department of weird coinkinkydinks on these books

[mmegaera]

Well, yay. Converse All-Stars weren't invented until 1908, and did not achieve an appearance we would recognize now until the 1920s.

This is good. But what's really cool?

One of their nicknames is "Chucks" for the man who developed them.

I am charmed. Serendipity strikes again!