-
Converse : The start!
- Click click - It was in 1908 that the Converse Rubber Corporation opened for business. -
Period: to
A time line on ... CONVERSE!
-
The first black & white converse!!!
The classic black and white high top was introduced in 1949. -
Converse started too become more popular [: !
Startinig in the 1970s, athletic shoes became so popular as footwear that adults refused to give up wearing them. Everyone wanted the look and feel of sneakers on their feets. Many new athletic companies emerged and marketed a wide variety of basketball and other sports and leisure shoes. -
On wards & up wards. [:!
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Converse Company began to experience hard times. The ownership and management of the Converse Company changed several times. These changes and bad business decisions along with their loss of market share took its toll on the company, and in 2001 they filed for bankruptcy. But the brand was too well established to abandon, and new ownership took over, closing all North American manufacturing and moving the manufacture of Converse athletic shoes from the USA to Asia. Th
