When I was a kid, getting a new pair of Buster Brownswas always a big deal. And although much has changed in the world ofchildren’s shoes, and the world at large, since then — in this house,a new pair ...

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 ...

Literally thousands of youngsters grew up riding on the small Buster Brown pedal merry-go-round in Pittsfield's Jim's House of Shoes, now at 239 North St. Baby boomers still talk about their memories ...

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 ...

POCATELLO — For decades, a neon sign of a winking boy and his dog, advertising Buster Brown shoes, was locked away and forgotten in the basement of the Pioneer Block Building. When the city’s ...

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 ...

The 137-year-old Brown name will live on as a men's footwear line to debut in 2016 Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Sorry, an error occurred ...