Bay Area/ San Francisco

Why Are There So Many Shoes In This Tree?

Published on March 24, 2012
Why Are There So Many Shoes In This Tree?
We're used to seeing the occasional pair of sneakers dangling from power lines here in the Lower Haight. But this, this is a new one.

Yesterday, while walking on Scott Street between Haight and Waller, we spotted this oddity: more than 20 shoes, all of which looked like Vans to us, dangling from the branches of a not-small tree.
Who put them up there, and why? And when and how, for that matter? Yet another neighborhood mystery. Can anyone out there help us solve it?