I will agree with the last post: fun to find this. I've wanted to write to Allen Block to let him know what a tremendous influence he'd been on my own sandal making and leather work in the late late 60s and early 70s. I worked for Cecil Burke, Cecil's Sandals, and Joe Jackson, Joe's House of Sandals, in Madison, Wisconsin from early 1969 through 1976 (and brief consults with Cecil Kelly, of Ho Chi Minh's Leather Den, and JD Dalton of Outrageous Ties). We certainly saw our share of Allen's sandals coming through for repairs, and they gave me a chance to study them, learning a great deal from both his and Fred Braun's sandals. I am not sure if Joe actually had worked with Allen, and I don't know where Joe is today, but Joe left Madison in the late 70s to establish a similar business in the Village, where he was on Leonard Street in the mid-1980s. In any case, the Block sandal was a thing of beauty, no less than craft and ingenuity, impressing a sensuous shape into them (rather than leaving them flat) supported by crepe arches cemented below the soles, and much invested into their finish qualities. Joe copied such a shape, but inserted leather "kidneys" between the upper and lower soles. The Allen Block sandal was a mark of distinction, associated with University students native to New York. I was surprised to read elsewhere, though cannot confirm, that Block too had originally hailed from Wisconsin. God bless you Allen Block, may we all meet someday in sandal heaven.