Los Angeles Footwear Factory Tour hosted by Last-Report.com!
Join us March 2021 and explore domestic manufacturing in Los Angeles, USA. part of our Shoe Cities™ Tours.
Did you know?
The largest manufacturing workforce in the United States is based in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Santa Ana metropolitan areas.
When: March 2021 (date TBD* due to covid-19 restrictions)
Where: Downtown Los Angeles, USA
RVSP your spot today as there a VERY LIMITED number of seats available for this tour!
Local Resident: $450 (Local SoCal / no hotel)
SINGLE DAY(S): $175 per day
Purchase Early Bird tickets:
Coming from out of town? Contact me to help with your travel needs. *Rates below are subject to change.
Package B: $1850 (hotel + tour) – $200 deposit required
Package C: $2200* (hotel + Flight + tour) $350 deposit required
*non US residents may require additional fees
Contact: Tanita S. Gray | tanita@last-report to schedule your position and deposit rate.
Join us for 3 days of jammed-packed interactive and resourceful footwear development experience. I encourage you to RSVP because the group needs to be small so that we do not overwhelm the factory floors!
If you need special accommodations for travel we are happy to help in any way possible.
EXCLUSIVE!
Guests will receive EXCLUSIVE access to our Footwear Development & Manufacturing course – I HIGHLY RECOMMEND any of our current students to attend at a discount rate!
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![Taking a moment to think about the "great shoe spill" of 1990 and the recent art exhibit "Overboard" by @andyyoderart in #washingtondc , recent storms and container shipments that haven't reached their destinations...
Sometimes referred to as the Great Shoe Spill, the tale recounts an event on May 27, 1990, when, during a sudden violent storm in the North Pacific, five shipping containers were swept off the deck of the freighter Hansa Carrier somewhere between Seoul and Seattle.
Of the 40-foot steel boxes that broke loose and crashed into the ocean, one sank to the bottom and four broke open to spill out a stream of contents that included computer monitors, sex toys and 61,280 Nike sneakers destined for America’s basketball courts and city streets.
The incident went on to become a parable of environmental disaster, as well as a red-letter event in the history of sneakerheads. For months, the buoyant flotilla drifted, carried by wind and currents until, in early 1991, beachcombers reported coming upon batches of the sneakers off Vancouver Island in Canada, pushed north on the Davidson Current. That spring, driven southward by opposing breezes, more of them turned up along the coastlines of Washington (#newtorktimes).
[In 2017 a ship on the East Coast] - the Maersk Shanghai - a 324m (1,063ft) vessel capable of carrying more than 10,000 shipping containers - was travelling from Norfolk, Virginia, down the east coast of the US to Charleston, South Carolina.
On the evening of 3 March - 17 miles from the Oregon Inlet, off the coast of North Carolina - it was caught in a storm. While battling high winds and rough seas, a stack of its cargo-laden containers toppled overboard (#bbc).
The flip flops and NIKE sneakers washed up as far away as Ireland.
Just how many shoes are out there?
It is at least possible in this case, Dr Ebbesmeyer says, to estimate the size of the spill.
"A container can hold about 10,000 sneakers. So if you say 70 containers multiplied by 10,000, that gives you an upper limit [of 700,000 sneakers] that could be out there (bbc)."](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/241714764_1200704253744992_8349093815763199514_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=r29dOZXaHw4AX88ZzFR&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=36f0e1923e9f3c1fae6986fc09977206&oe=6151ECE6)
