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Remember then?🥿👠👡👢👞👟🥾🧦👛👝👜🩴 (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Apr 4 OP
Is this a memory True Dough Apr 4 #1
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I remember their commercials, but my family had a local go-to store for shoes instead. Eugene Apr 4 #3
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I am so old I can remember the cars in the parking lot rurallib Apr 4 #4
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I feel such a heel UpInArms Apr 4 #5
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Purchased many a pair of Easter Sunday shoes Dave in VA Apr 4 #6
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yes. AllaN01Bear Apr 4 #7
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That's where you went to buy your Buster Browns! JoseBalow Apr 4 #8
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Back in the days when the shoe salesperson Emile Saturday #15
That would be me! 🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Saturday #16
it's missing onethatcares Saturday #17
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Was it was Kinney Shoes who had LogDog75 Saturday #19
Kinney among others! Floyd R. Turbo Sunday #20

rurallib

(63,585 posts)
4. I am so old I can remember the cars in the parking lot
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:00 PM
Apr 4

A Dodge, a Chevy, a Plymouth, think that really old one is a Buick(?) And across the aisle a Ford.
I may be wrong but gawd I was young - and yes we would take the occasional hike to Kinney shoes.

Emile

(33,944 posts)
15. Back in the days when the shoe salesperson
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 08:11 AM
Saturday

measured your foot and went to a back room. Then came back from the back room with the correct size of shoe for you to try on.

LogDog75

(380 posts)
19. Was it was Kinney Shoes who had
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 04:23 PM
Saturday

the foot x-ray machine in their stores. I remember being a kid and my parents taking me to buy shoes and the shoe salesman had me put my foot in the machine so he and my father could look at it and decide which shoe would be best for me. It was a gimmick, but it worked.

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