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Temple museum explores the history of shoes

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Tucked away on the sixth floor of a concrete-and-cinder-block building in Center City, the Temple Shoe Museum at Temple's School of Podiatric Medicine houses more than 1,000 pairs of shoes. Some are ancient, like an anonymous pair of Egyptian burial sandals from about 200 BC, while others are as freshly cobbled as the Manolo Blahniks that Joan Rivers wore to her daughter's wedding. And curator Barbara Williams wants more: "Our feet take us around the world something like four times in a lifetime, and we don't pay any attention to them until they hurt."