HHPlace is 17 Today

[Tech]

Happy Birthday to us...

Happy Birthday to us....

Happy Birthday dear HHPlace Community....

Happy Birthday to us....

HHPlace is today officially 17 Years old!

The community has come a long long way in the last 17 years and knowing all of the original founders, one of whom was a good friend back then too when he passed the community over to me to look after (13 years ago) has been a lot of fun and at times, a bumpy ride... I only wish that in the last 17 years, wearing shoes would not still be such a taboo. You would actually be considered more of an oddball if you were barefoot!

We can however celebrate that several members here are on a daily basis proving to the world that its actually not an issue and its simply the fear in your own heads that are holding you back.

[p1ng74]

Congratulations to the whole community here, thanks everyone for reading and contributing, and to Tech for looking after things for so long!  

[at9]

Big thank you to Tech for keeping the show running for all those years.

I remember going to one or two meetups in London. Must have been over 10 years ago. Tech was certainly at one of them. As was Dr Shoe - I wonder what happened to him.

[Tech]

35 minutes ago, at9 said:

I wonder what happened to him

He became a woman and went off to live his life as Tara.

[Shyheels]

Happy birthday - and I second (or third) the thank-yous for seeing the site so well run. It is a remarkably friendly forum and populated by a lot of interesting people from all walks of life. I have certainly found my time well spent and thought provoking and have made some good friends. 

[jeremy1986]

wow, well done guys, congrats!

I have only been hereabout 2 years (virtually to the day!), and its been a good ride so far!

here's to the next 17 years (we'll all be old men by then!)  

[KneeBooted]

Yes, Happy Birthday and Thank You for keeping this site going! I hope wearing heels quits being taboo in my lifetime, so I’ll keep on working at it on my end!

[Bubba136]

Funny.  While Reviewing a posting on YouTube Last  evening about the LGBT community, I thought about Dr. Shoe.  I remember back when he was vary active here and our many interesting exchanges. He was interested in building/making footwear.  I believe he even attended a couple of schools that dealt with shoe making.  

At that time, he was one of our members that really could pass as being female when dressed. I would venture that Tech could, if he had time, retrieve the picture of him as a young Tara from our archives.  I specifically recall the period when he was transitioning and, it appeared to me at least, how difficult and confusing the process was.  I seem to recall him mentioning some problems he was having with his ex-wife, children and, not surprisingly, his at the time boyfriend.  

The time frame for all of this might have been around 2010 or so. Don’t hold  the date against me if I’m wrong. I really don’t  exactly remember. I’ve often wondered whatever happened to him and how he was doing as I have about some other old timers from that early era.

Edited January 6, 2019 by Bubba136

[JeffB]

Seventeen years, eh? Wow! How time flies when you’re having fun!

[JeffB]

On 1/7/2019 at 4:51 AM, kneehighs said:

Unbelievable right!?  

P.S. I was just in Rittenhouse Square last week!  Hoped to spot a JeffB sighting, but alas no luck.

Really? Bummer! It would've been cool to have met you!

[dww]

I think hh place is slightly older than 17, as the first heel meet I went on was may 2002 in Cambridge, I attended two other world heel meets in London one in 2007 and the other in 2009, but I recall visiting this site in 1999 and may be before when it was the good old dial up days, poss it was not called hh place in the early days as I cannot remember.

[Tech]

Before HHPlace started (In 2002) it was a delphi forums or something, one of those free ones, I forget its name exactly.

[dww]

1. Thanks Tech for your input, I only know my first post was June 2002 I used another sign in name then I believe the guy who run this site was based in Reading, I spoke to him in 1998 or there abouts.

[HappyinHeels]

Happy Birthday HHP. As a military commander might tell his unit; "Congratulations on a job well done". That is what I would say to Tech for 13 years of dedicated service. Yes, you are right there are several members here who have, through their own example of doing and writing, experiencing and documenting, the wearing of heels by men can be fun and liberating and they found the only heretofore obstacle to doing it was the mental barrier they had erected in their head. No sky was falling and no bogeymen jumped out of the bushes. If the website continues to inspire other men then it will have continued to have fulfilled its goal of bringing people together through understanding. OMG, I'm starting to sound like a community organiser.Seriously though,  I thank Tech for being the community organiser we all needed. HappyinHeels

[mlroseplant]

I'm a little late to the game, as usual, but I will chime in also and thank you Tech, for keeping this place running. I do not know what merged or transformed into what, but I was around during the Jenny days, circa 2000 or so, and I remember @Bubba136 and he remembers me. The difference is, I wasn't a public wearer back in those days, I was barely a private wearer. It took me another 12 years to get that sorted out.