Show who remembers days of Old Fashioned bootjack the iong leather boots and the bootjacks boot jacks of grandfathers fathers lay day are nearly forgotten yet it is within the recollection of many when both were plentiful while a few bootjacks boot jacks were cast from iron and could be bought at hardware stores the roost most popular ones were homemade they were simple in design just a notched board with a bunker to raise the jack end from the floor and the other end to stand on oil even with a jack it was not al ways easy to remove n tight fitting loot boot that had been worn orn all day and had perhaps been wet in such an event father was likely to impress a son ns a human bootjack sitting sitten behind liili lie would thrust the boot between the boys legs legg and with ills other foot pressed against his back generally obtain leverage to remove the obstinate nate footwear in new england fishing families where rubber boots are frequently worn one will still flud bootjacks boot jacks in use |