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 ...

With the dawn of movie theaters nationwide, Brown Shoe by 1913 was making Buster Brown a star of short films.Four years later, a sweeping advertising campaign in that time’s most popular magazines ...

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 ...