GK GETTING TO KNOW
RECLAIME
VENITA COOPER
Vinita Cooper has taken her growing love and appreciation of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, along with her energetic love of retro sneakers, and fanned it into a passionate endeavor. Back in 2015, a Vanity Fair article referred to the seven most museum-worthy sneakers in the world. Among them, they described the 1997 Reebok x Chanel Insta Pump Fury as a shoe of mythical proportions, the original 1985 Air Jordan as “the watershed moment of sneaker culture,” and the 2005 Nike SB Pigeon Dunk as “riot inducing” because of the pandemonium that ensued upon its release among sneakerheads, many of whom had camped out three or more days ahead of time to get their hands on the shoe.
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Many Tulsans can probably recall when those shoes, and so many other coveted designs,