ST. LOUIS - We’re knot joking, City Museum shoe-ts and scores its second GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title of 2024.
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The Shoelace Factory, inside City Museum, has created the World’s Longest Shoelace at 831.9 meters, or over one-half mile long.
Breaking a shoe-related record was a natural fit, as City Museum resides in the former Annex of the International Shoe Company building (1931) that was once part of St. Louis' vibrant shoe manufacturing scene. In fact, there were so many shoes being made on Washington Avenue that it was known as “Shoe Street U.S.A.”
Additionally, Robert Wadlow, the Giant of Alton, Illinois, once walked the halls of the International Shoe Company as their spokesperson for promotional tours in exchange for free, custom-made shoes.
Today, The Shoelace Factory sits inside the second floor of City Museum using antique machinery to weave custom shoelaces for the hundreds of thousands of guests that travel the museum each year.
“We have learned a lot about the process of breaking another world record,” said Katy Enrique, City Museum’s Director of Marketing. “This included proving that the shoelace was created from woven threads, officially measured, and completely functional as a shoelace.”
The world’s longest shoelace was woven on an antique textile machine from 1890 and took approximately 24-hours of weaving to complete. To finalize the shoelace, custom-made aglets were affixed to the ends of the lace, and then measured by a survey crew on the 150-year old Eads Bridge for verification.
Official World’s Longest Shoelace measurements:
2,729.360 feet, or
0.517 miles, or
831.911 meters
City Museum already holds a few official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS titles, including the World's Largest Pencil, the World's Longest Seesaw, the World's Largest Tennis Racket, and the Largest Gathering of People with Underwear on Their Heads.
City Museum is open year round and hosts fun events like City Nights, International & Craft Beer Festival, Fright at the Museum, and Weirdly Wonderful Holidays. Plan serious fun with a single day ticket or become a member with a pass. Learn more at www.citymuseum.org.
For more Guinness World Record event photos, video, and logos visit: https://bit.ly/citymuseumshoelace.
ABOUT CITY MUSEUM
Housed in an old shoe factory in Downtown St. Louis, City Museum is an ever-evolving, always-thrilling, artist-built playground full of weirdly wonderful spaces to explore. City Museum opened in 1997 and started as a passion project and developed into an indoor, outdoor, underground playground that welcomes adventurous visitors from all over the world. This iconic St. Louis attraction is considered one of the great public spaces and a must-see for visitors.
ABOUT GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
What’s the fastest game bird in Europe? This was the question that inspired the founding of GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS back in 1955. Starting with a single book published from a room above a gym, GWR has grown to become a global multi-media brand, with offices in London, New York, Miami, Beijing, Tokyo and Dubai. Today, we deliver world-class content, not just through books, but via TV shows, social media and live events. Our in-house consultancy works closely with brands and businesses around the world to harness the power of record-breaking and deliver award-winning campaigns and business solutions. Our ultimate purpose is to inspire people —individuals, families, schools, groups, companies, communities and even entire countries— to read about, watch, listen to and participate in record-breaking. To join this record-breaking community and find out the answer to that original question, visit guinnessworldrecords.com.
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