Community Corner

Then and Now: Locally Made Slippers

Each week, Wakefield Patch takes a look at an item from the town's past found for sale on eBay.

This poster up for sale on eBay shows “Evans Hand Turned Slippers,” made by L.B. Evans’ Son Company of Wakefield. The company appears to have been around for over a century and this particular ad was in a Christmastime edition of The Saturday Evening Post.

It turns out that the company has a history going back to 1804, although its local connections seem to have come to an end long ago.

 

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