HELLAM, PA. Old woman living in shoe knows what to do: Sell

The house was built by a shoe magnate to promote his 40-plus stores.
HELLAM, Pa. (AP) -- House hunters and footwear fanatics, take note: A three-bedroom, two-bath house that happens to be shaped like a giant shoe is up for sale.
The Haines Shoe House, a York County landmark near Route 30 in Hellam Township, was put on the market three weeks ago.
Ruth and Charles Miller are asking $129,000 for their well-heeled house.
"If it wouldn't be for my age I wouldn't even think of putting it on the market," said Ruth Miller, 77. "I'd like to find a young couple to come and give it a try."
Honeymoon house
The Shoe House was built in 1948 by central Pennsylvania shoe magnate Mahlon Haines, who used it to promote his 40-plus stores by giving away honeymoon weekends at the house.
The company folded shortly after his death in 1962.
A local dentist bought the Shoe House and turned it into an ice cream parlor. He died in the mid-1980s and the house fell into disrepair.
Haines' granddaughter bought it in 1987 and renovated it, and Ruth Miller bought it in 1995.
"She came home and said, 'I bought a shoe,"' Charles Miller recalled.
Melinda Higgins, executive director of Historic York Inc., said the building represents a form of architecture used in the 1930s and 1940s: programmatic architecture, or buildings that look like things.
"There was a whole array of boots and cowboy hats and cactuses out there and there aren't many left," Higgins said. "We'd love to see the right person come by and buy it and maintain it, but I'm not sure who that is."