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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - Pocatello's Relight the Night committee have added another neon sign in their efforts to help restore Historic Downtown. Buster Brown, a comic book character created in ...

In 1910, Brown Shoe published "Buster Brown's Jokes and Jingles," a booklet that kids got with a purchase of the shoes. A year later, Buster Brown starred in the company's first national ads in "The ...