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 ...

Buster Brown debuted in Richard Outcault's comic strip in the New York Herald on May 4, 1902, nearly a quarter century after shoemaking Bryan, Brown & Co. got its start. It then changed its name to ...

Jim Osher is a showman. He owns the former Buster Brown Blue Ribbon Shoe factory on the site of the planned National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's new western headquarters near downtown St. Louis.

Hoorwitz, Bernard (“Bernie”), 78, former owner and proprietor of Bernie’s Buster Brown Shoe Store, passed away surrounded by his wife and children, on February 18, 2005 in Florida, due to ...