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Buster Brown's association with shoes began with John Bush, a sales executive with the Brown Shoe Company; he persuaded his company to purchase rights to the Buster Brown name, and the brand was introduced to the public at the 1904 World's Fair. Little people were hired by the Brown Shoe Co. to play Buster in tours around the United States ...
Caleres Inc. is an American footwear company that owns and operates a variety of footwear brands. Its headquarters is located in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. [4] [5] Founded in 1878 as Bryan, Brown & Company in St. Louis, it underwent several name changes; [6] for a time, the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company was the largest manufacturer of shoes in America.
Mary Jane was a character created by Richard Felton Outcault, "Father of the Sunday Comic Strip", for his comic strip Buster Brown, which was first published in 1902. [citation needed] She was the sister of the title character Buster Brown and was drawn from real life, as Outcault had a daughter of the same name.
The Brown Shoe Company Factory is a historic factory located at 212 S. State St. in Litchfield, Illinois. The factory opened in 1917 to produce shoes for the St. Louis –based Brown Shoe Company . Prominent St. Louis architect Albert B. Groves designed the factory, which was one of twelve he designed for the company.
Kids' shoe maker Buster Brown is recalling 1.4 million pairs of car-shaped water clogs because their decorative wheels can fall off and pose a choking hazard to young children, the U.S. Consumer ...
A shoe-fitting fluoroscope was a metal construction covered in finished wood, approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) high in the shape of short column, with a ledge with an opening through which the standing customer (adult or child) would put their feet and look through a viewing porthole at the top of the fluoroscope down at the X-ray view of the feet ...
Smilin' Ed McConnell and his Buster Brown Gang was one of the first children's TV shows filmed in Hollywood. In the original shows, McConnell started the program by greeting the audience—"Hiya, kids"—after which the audience sang a song for the sponsor, Buster Brown shoes: "I got shoes, you got shoes, everybody's got to have shoes, but there's only one kind of shoe for me—good old Buster ...
The main article for this category is Caleres, formerly the Brown Shoe Company. Map all ... Buster Brown; The Buster Brown Show; F. Famous Footwear; H.