Today in History revisits the Friday, October 9, 1959 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story out of Mobile, Alabama. Mobile's all-male city commission was considering an ordinance to ban spike heels over an inch high, due to 50 lawsuits from people falling on sidewalks. The proposed $5 fine would be loosely enforced. Commissioners said the ban will make women responsible for their own accidents.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP story as published by the Grand Forks Herald in 1959) — Women who "hobble down city streets in heels three and four inches high and no larger than a cigarette" will have to practically flat-foot it around town under a proposed city ordinance.

But the three male city commissioners who thought up this ban on fashionable feminine footwear entertain no delusions abo

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