Sneaky Sneakers
A secret room for pimped-out pumps
Photo: Susan Ogan
H
ere’s something so underground that even most Boston natives don’t know about it: Walk two blocks east on Mass. Ave. past the artsy kids on MacBooks outside the Berklee College of Music, hang a left onto Clearway Street, and look for the inconspicuous bodega among the brownstones stocked with gum and Vitamin Water. Go directly to the vending machine against the back wall like you know what you’re doing. And don’t try to buy a soda. It’s actually a door that slides open to reveal sneaker paradise, complete with a DJ spinning and shelves filled with hard-to-find men’s and women’s Nikes and Creative Recreations, just to name a few, plus art and graff books and mix tapes. Holding a purple shopping bag without a label, as you’re sure to be doing when you leave Bodega, has never felt so cool. Tronolone
know that, this might not be the store for you.
Diaz have shopped here. Well, assuming
you think Tom Cruise is cool.
Shhh who knew
The vulcanizing process that made it possible to make rubber soles for sneakers was invented by Charles Goodyear in a tenement in Woburn in 1839.
6 Clearway St.
at Massachusetts Avenue
Boston,
MA,
02115
617.421.1550
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1 Bus, 39 Bus, 55 Bus, Hynes/Green Line B C D, Massachusetts Avenue/Orange Line, Symphony/Green Line E
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Monday through Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
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