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TAPE: EF01/0428 IN_TIME: 07:25:21 DURATION: 2:50 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: San Francisco - May 24/File SHOTLIST: AUDIO AS INCOMING San Francisco, California - 24 May 2001 and FILE 1 Wide shot Levi Strauss fashion store in San Francisco 2 Mid shot limousine pulls up, man gets out and carries small suitcase into building 3 Mid shot man walks into store and places suitcase on a table - suitcase is opened and jeans are pulled out 4 Jeans are laid out on view on the table 5 SOUNDBITE: (English) Lynne Downey, Levi Strauss Historian This is a very significant pair of jeans They represent the very earliest example we've ever seen of our 130 year tradition of innovation and quality We invented the blue jean in 1873 and then we lost everything in 1906 in the earthquake and fire So, we're very happy these are coming home to us in San Francisco 6 Mid shot of jeans on table 7 SOUNDBITE: (English) Lynne Downey, Levi Strauss Historian These jeans are made of a nine ounce denim from the Amaskag mill in Manchester, New Hampshire They have a very simple design They are a very simple pair of denim working man's pants But the most interesting thing about them is the extra pocket riveted on the left thigh, which was probably used for a rulerr or a knife or something like that FILE - Undated 8 Black and white file footage of manufacture of Levi jeans 9 Black and white file footage of California's gold fields 10 Still photograph of Levi Strauss in San Francisco in the 1880s 11 Still photograph of working men 12 Various of jeans 13 Still of Levi Strauss advertisement from 1880s STORYLINE: The oldest known pair of Levi jeans in existence became one of the most expensive ever pairs of blue jeans when they were sold this week at auction The one hundred-twenty year old pair of jeans sold at an internet auction for nearly 46-thousand US dollars And they have gone to a good home, the purchaser was the jeans manufacturer Levis Co themselves The jeans were apparently sewn together sometime during the 1880s Historians say these are a pair of waist coveralls and the original manufacturer was Levi Strauss They were found in three years ago buried in mud in a Nevada mining town Fashion historians have authenticated the jeans through craftsmanship, thread count of the cotton, the ink, rivets and stitching Since all Levi's records were destroyed in the great earthquake of 1906, the exact date of manufacture of this style of Levi jeans is not known Levi Strauss made a reputation by making strong clothing for men who went west to work in the California gold fields and on the railroads in the 1880s The jeans were popular in the 1930s with farmers and migrant workers and reached us via the hippie generation in the 1970s Levi Strauss plans to make an exact replica of these jeans for the Vintage Clothing Line Levis says the new jeans with the old style would sell for about 250 dollars Keyword-unusual

Source ABCNEWS VideoSource
Title: US Levis - World's oldest pair of jeans sell for $48 thousand
Date: 05/26/2001
Library: APTN
Tape Number: VSAP305319
Content: TAPE: EF01/0428 IN_TIME: 07:25:21 DURATION: 2:50 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: San Francisco - May 24/File SHOTLIST: AUDIO AS INCOMING San Francisco, California - 24 May 2001 and FILE 1 Wide shot Levi Strauss fashion store in San Francisco 2 Mid shot limousine pulls up, man gets out and carries small suitcase into building 3 Mid shot man walks into store and places suitcase on a table - suitcase is opened and jeans are pulled out 4 Jeans are laid out on view on the table 5 SOUNDBITE: (English) Lynne Downey, Levi Strauss Historian This is a very significant pair of jeans They represent the very earliest example we've ever seen of our 130 year tradition of innovation and quality We invented the blue jean in 1873 and then we lost everything in 1906 in the earthquake and fire So, we're very happy these are coming home to us in San Francisco 6 Mid shot of jeans on table 7 SOUNDBITE: (English) Lynne Downey, Levi Strauss Historian These jeans are made of a nine ounce denim from the Amaskag mill in Manchester, New Hampshire They have a very simple design They are a very simple pair of denim working man's pants But the most interesting thing about them is the extra pocket riveted on the left thigh, which was probably used for a rulerr or a knife or something like that FILE - Undated 8 Black and white file footage of manufacture of Levi jeans 9 Black and white file footage of California's gold fields 10 Still photograph of Levi Strauss in San Francisco in the 1880s 11 Still photograph of working men 12 Various of jeans 13 Still of Levi Strauss advertisement from 1880s STORYLINE: The oldest known pair of Levi jeans in existence became one of the most expensive ever pairs of blue jeans when they were sold this week at auction The one hundred-twenty year old pair of jeans sold at an internet auction for nearly 46-thousand US dollars And they have gone to a good home, the purchaser was the jeans manufacturer Levis Co themselves The jeans were apparently sewn together sometime during the 1880s Historians say these are a pair of waist coveralls and the original manufacturer was Levi Strauss They were found in three years ago buried in mud in a Nevada mining town Fashion historians have authenticated the jeans through craftsmanship, thread count of the cotton, the ink, rivets and stitching Since all Levi's records were destroyed in the great earthquake of 1906, the exact date of manufacture of this style of Levi jeans is not known Levi Strauss made a reputation by making strong clothing for men who went west to work in the California gold fields and on the railroads in the 1880s The jeans were popular in the 1930s with farmers and migrant workers and reached us via the hippie generation in the 1970s Levi Strauss plans to make an exact replica of these jeans for the Vintage Clothing Line Levis says the new jeans with the old style would sell for about 250 dollars Keyword-unusual
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