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 ...

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 ...

When George Warren Brown took his company public in 1914, he likely didn’t imagine that a passion project would one day grow into a global footwear empire. Founded in 1878, St. Louis-based Brown Shoe ...

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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 ...