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THE LAST AND THE SOLE Book 5

By Isolde Trautmann · 4 parts · 14 h 30 min · English

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Anaheim, California, 1966. Paul Van Doren, a factory man out of the Boston rubber trade, opens a shoe store with nothing in it: no stock on the shelves, no change in the register, and a plant behind the counter that can cut a canvas upper in the morning and hand it over in the afternoon. Twelve people order shoes on the first day and are told to come back at four. What he has built is a shoe company with no wholesaler inside it, and the price is the whole argument. Then the skateboarders of southern California find the sole without being asked and without being understood, and a company designed to serve twelve customers a day is carried somewhere it never drew a pattern for. Covers Paul Van Doren, Vans, and Van Doren Rubber Company.

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  1. Part 01

    3:28:32

  2. Part 02

    3:45:14

  3. Part 03

    3:22:37

  4. Part 04

    3:54:01

Books in this series

  1. THE LAST AND THE SOLE Book 1

    4 parts · 14 h 38 min

  2. THE LAST AND THE SOLE Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 31 min

  3. THE LAST AND THE SOLE Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 7 min

  4. THE LAST AND THE SOLE Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 17 min

  5. THE LAST AND THE SOLE Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 30 min

  6. THE LAST AND THE SOLE Book 6

    4 parts · 16 h 16 min