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Their first store was located on the second floor of a fixer-upper Victorian house in Sacramento, California. [3] [4] In 1978, Fleet Feet's second location opened in the town of Chico, 90 miles north of Sacramento. [4] Rather than becoming a multi-store business, Edwards and Jansen decided to build Fleet Feet as a franchise operation with local ...
In 1987 a second store was opened in Paso Robles, CA. The Paso Robles store is the oldest free-standing location currently in the corporation and one of two still offering shoe repair services (the San Luis Obispo Takken's Location is the other).
Co-founders Steve Adler and Jim Argyropoulos created the plan for The Walking Company (formerly The Walking Store) after Argyropoulos’ return from a vacation in Europe, where he was inspired by European footwear designs. In July 1991, they opened and self-financed the first store in Pasadena, California. Shortly after the store's opening, it ...
Deckers Outdoor Corporation, doing business as Deckers Brands, is a footwear designer and distributor based in Goleta, California, United States. It was founded in 1973 by University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Doug Otto and Karl F. Lopker. [2] [3] [4] In 1975, the company was incorporated in California under the name Deckers ...
In 1963, the F. W. Woolworth Company purchased the Kinney Shoe Corporation and operated it as a subsidiary. In the 1960s, Kinney branched into specialty shoe stores, including Stylco in 1967, Susie Casuals in 1968, and Foot Locker on September 12, 1974. The first Foot Locker opened in the Puente Hills Mall in City of Industry, California. [5]
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
Mandel's (a.k.a. Mandel's Shoe Stores and Mandel's Fascinating Slippers) was a chain of shoe stores in the Southwestern United States for many decades of the 20th century. For a time it advertised its wares as "Mandel's Fascinating Slippers". Maurice Mandel headed up the stores through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Samuel Hubbard is best known for the "Unsneaker", a casual and dress shoe hybrid that resembles a dress shoe on the outside, but feels like a sneaker on the inside. [11] The company produces several dozen styles including casual shoes, dress shoes and slip-ons. In 2018, golf shoes and boat shoes were introduced.