In sporting goods stores, like the Decathlon chain in France, or the Footlocker unit of Venator, which opened hundreds of stores in Europe in the 1990's, N.B.A. products were hot items.
Two teenage black kids, clanking with gold jewellery, strolled out of the Footlocker, a chain store which specialises in sports shoes.
Having dressed in coveralls to look like a workman, he took the footlocker to the landmark 307-foot (94-meter) tall University of Texas clock tower building (competed in 1937), arriving at about 11 30 am.
One questioner — a reporter played by Atwood herself, who also supplied a new introductory essay for the audiobook — asks the professor to elaborate on the circumstances of the footlocker's discovery.
It's a Foursquare of sorts, but instead of getting points for being somewhere, you get Taap.it points for interacting with individual items, whether it be an entree on a menu or a pair of shoes at the FootLocker.
As with most Marines, my husband was less than willing to admit he was anything but "good to go" and that his baggage from five tours of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan was nothing more than what was contained in the black footlockers housed in our garage.
"Big talk from a guy locked inside a trunk, Roy," one of the story's emerging gangsters tells his captive, who is making threats through the holes shot in a footlocker.
Remember the bulky footlockers, the squeaking oarlocks, the "best friends" for life (or eight weeks), the rivers of bug juice and calamine?
Britpoppers Cast have been trying to give their scally jangle more weight, and more to the point, some of the band now work in Footlocker.
