For at least three generations, youngsters looked forward to a shopping trip with a parent to the former Jim’s House of Shoes on North Street in Pittsfield. It was not so much for new shoes, but an ...
When I was a kid, getting a new pair of Buster Browns was always a big deal. And although much has changed in the world of children’s shoes, and the world at large, since then — in this house, a new ...
ST. LOUIS — Cross-marketing and multimedia weren't the buzzwords they are now when, 100 years ago, a suburban St. Louis shoe company took a chance and bought licensing rights to a comic strip ...