Buster Brown Shoes - Life in America
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The days when quality merchandise was still produced in the U.S....
Amen!
Those days are long gone in the USA !
Yes, Quality products and great customer service.
Is anything produced in the USA anymore?
I remember my mother taking my sister and myself to the Buster Brown store on rt 17 in Paramus NJ, watching this video gave me fond memories of day gone by
Buster Brown, Thom McAn, Robert Hall,etc. all places well-visited in my youth.
Kinney Shoes too.
Stride rite too as babies mom got or baby shoes
Karoline Smail They were the big kids brand. Still the shoe of choice even when my son was born.
I remember my first pair of P.F. Fliers 💪💪💪🥳
Yes me and my family would shop at these stores for school outfits and shoes .. they lasted and you got your money's worth
As a toddler and child of the 60s I remember these shoes. The leather always smelled good.
Yes, And they were made with very high-quality materials. That is why they were passed down to a younger sibling.
Loved the smell of new shoes.... Remember the smell in shoe repair shops back in the day
Yeah! And the smell of Buster Brown shoes was the best!
We just had the last shoe repair shop in our town close recently after being there close to a hundred years. Too bad! People just buy new ones instead these days.
My grand uncle William Edmund Ansley played Buster Brown in every whistle stop town across the USA. Traveled with his dog named Taige. He is the one on stage with his dog sitting in chair in this RUclips.
I will always remember my Buster Brown shoes! Thank you for the memories! God bless 🌝
When I was a child, I got one pair of Buster Brown shoes that lasted me for the year. As hard as I tried, I could never wear them out. ha 😸 ha. I really wanted a pair of Mary Janes. Get memories
God bless.
My parents did not have much money and they were expensive (for those days), but they bought my sister and I one pair of Buster Brown shoes a year because we had foot issues. Great quality!
Being the youngest child in my family, I always got my Buster Brown shoes as hand-me-downs. But they were such high-quality shoes that, other than a scuff or two, they were just fine. I miss the days when American-made goods were everywhere. I still remember going to my grandmother's home and noticing that everything from her kitchen radio to her fine Curtis Mathis television were all, proudly, American-made. Those days are, sadly, long gone now.
Those shoes were high quality. My Father always took my shoes to have new heels put on when they wore down. One pair of shoes a year back then. New shoes for school.
@@voodookitchenmama Indeed, they were of extremely high quality! One of the main reasons that Buster Brown Shoe Corp., and many other American-based companies, went out of business was because we Americans have the bad habit of stepping over a dollar to get to a quarter. In other words, we would buy cheaply made goods from overseas instead of continuing to buy higher-quality American-made goods. Your father was a very wise man! My father threw away so many valuable things which he should have kept! He seemed to be mad at his money! I learned from my father's frivolous mistake. God Bless!
I really do LOVE this channel!!!
Wow you did my suggestion I remember this place very well as a kid my mom would take me to get shoes for the new school year. I also remember they would use a foot measurer it was made out of metal. So many memories back then, we were blessed to have experienced those days 🤔
Haha yeah I remember the shoe measuring device too.
"Where have you been, Buster Brown!!?." When you knew you were in trouble.
Do they even measure your feet anymore? I remember that some stores had a kind of X-ray machine to measure your feet years ago.
I remember when Andy Devine was hosting a kids tv show sponsored by Buster Brown Shoes. He had a puppet called “Froggy and His Magic Twanger “that made people say mixed up things.
I had a pair of Buster Brown's as my "dress up" shoes, for Christmas and Easter and such. My grandmother would call me Buster Brown if she thought I was doing something mischievous. She passed away in 1984, but I can still hear her saying: "What are you up to, Buster Brown?"
Hahahaha!! My mother would say to my brother “You better get upstairs and clean you room buster brown!”, when we were growing up in the 70s. Too funny!!
@@littlebittyvintagelane2862 🤣🤣
NOW I get why they’re called “Mary-Jane” shoes! Neat
" I'm Buster Brown I live in a shoe. This is my dog Tige he lives in here too, pee-yoo!" Anyone else remember this little saying?
Not until now . wow...they where so ugly , stiff and painful.
Yes! They were on the round sticker where your heel goes.
We are giving our age big time. 🤣😭
@@thiawolf9054 I loved those shoes, never had any problems with them.
I remember it well
I remember when I was a kid, adults praised the quality of Buster Browns. The name was synonymous with quality.
Always the first shoe after learning to walk.
@Derek Jackson Yes so was Florsheim quality shoes made in the USA ..no longer..
I had Buster Browns, they took a beating and lasted a long time. American pride and quality craftsmanship, when it meant something.
My mom worked at Brown Shoe Company as a sewing machine operator and inspector in the 1960s, before I was born. The Brown Shoe factory in our town of Lexington, Tennessee ceased production around 2000.
Brown Shoe Co. employed most of Savannah, Tn at one time.
😥😥I'm sure the high standards and quality were not the same as when your mom worked there. That is the problem with companies always looking for a way to cut costs.
I grew up in Mary Jane's. Always eagerly awaiting our yearly purchases at the start of the school year! It was always Buster Brown shoes for school!
For me it was Red Wing shoes for work. They were American made shoes also.
For me it was Red Wing shoes for work. They were American made shoes also.
I thought “Mary Jane “ was a slang term for marijuana. 😵💫
"What do I remember most about wearing my Buster Brown shoes?"
They were comfortable.
Thank you for this video. I had forgotten the dog's name, "Tige." Again, thanks for the memory jog.
Thank you for sharing. When I was little, I could not walk. The Dr found out why. His remedy was to go to buster brown where a shoe salesman could help. I was 2 years old. The ordered special shoes with braces and low and behold little by little I started to take tiny steps. Thank you buster brown
Mom insisted on Buster Brown shoes for us in the late 60s/early 70s.
I remember as a child back in the late 1950's some shoe stores had a "fluoroscopoe" that would take an X-ray of your foot. Supposedly this was done for "proper fitting" and looking for problems. Later these machines were banned because they put out a lot of radiation and nobody was shielded. Shoe salesmen were exposed to high levels of radiation. Just another example of "better living through science" which turned out...bad. But the shoes sold then were much higher quality than what you get today. And when the soles wore out, you just went to a shoe repairman (cobbler) to get new soles put on.
Now I understand what that world was like (the one my parents were born into).
Remember when shoes had to be "broken in?" Ouch!
Thats why I did not like BB ones I liked sneakers much better !!
@@johnsiders7819 Keds?
Also "baptized" by the other students. Anybody remember that practice of stomping on your friends new shoes?
@@smashpoundx8643 canvas allstars loved the hitops
I and my feet both do. Remember having to put them on with shoe horns.?
I had a pair of white Busters when i was a baby(1968-69) and brown ones in the very early 70's.
I still have my baby shoes. And I had blue suede buckle shoes that I loved.
😎During the 1980s my mother would take my brother and I to our local mall and near the food area there was a buster Brown shoe store. Right before school started for the new year My mother would let us pick out our school shoes. The thing I'm remember most was that with every purchase of a shoe you got a free balloon and after that we would get an orange Julius and go home. Happy memories!!! Happy Days👍
I remember my pair of brown suede hush puppies from there.
I always wondered how the name came for my Mary Janes!! :) I still have my beautiful black patent leather Mary Jane's from 1960!! Indeed, the quality of our shoes was so rich and beautiful from that great Era; and still lasting for our great Grandchildren, shiny as new, Today! Buster Brown brings back some of the best memories of Our Lives! Oh how I miss those precious Beautiful Days.
Thank you so much for this lovely heartwarming channel! It is so bittersweet to remember how great everything WAS Then.... while dealing with how horrid everything IS NOW. Thank you my Lord Jesus GOD, FOR GIVING US THE GIFT OF LIFE AND OUR MEMORIES OF LIVING. AMEN 💐
I remember the jingle, “ I’m Buster Brown. I live in a shoe. Here’s my dog Tyke, he lives in there, too!”
*Tige
What I remember is I had to take them off as soon as I got home from school. They were school shoes, not at-home play shoes. Had sneakers and other shoes for that at home. Had to learn to brush them off as needed.
I haven't thought about this in a million years. We had school clothes, play clothes and church clothes and rarely did they overlap without fear of mom's wooden spoon.
@@getoffmydarnlawn Or my dad's skinny belt which hurt more than a thick one.
@@spokanetomcat1 indeed
First day of school used to love the smell of my new shoes❤️
Ow yeah.
Didn't know they were still in business. Good to hear, even under a new name.
This really brought back some memories, but as a little kid I hated the annual trip to get new Buster Browns - it always meant summer was over and school was about to start 😬
I recall it being a right of passage, going from Buster Brown to Hush Puppies. Yep, I'm old.
I was scrolling through the comments and I was going to ask if anyone remembers Hush puppy shoes.
Try from Buster Brown to Hushpupies then to Mother Goose then your old...lololol.
or your first pair of dress shoes from, Florsheim.
@@RIXRADvidz , I am old enough to miss REAL shoes!
Back before the brand of shoe you wore truly mattered, especially to the young people....
Derek Jackson That's funny you mention loafers. I remember going for school shoes one year & my dad saying get loafers. I wanted Hush Puppies. I regretted my decision.
@@samanthab1923 "Father knows best!" 😉
@@samanthab1923 Loved my loafers! I had to wear the ugly black and white saddle shoes until 6th grade, but dad sided with me and told my mom to let me get penny loafers when I went to Jr high. I remember putting new pennies in the front of the upper. That was 1959. Still love wearing loafers.
I loved my Buster Brown shoes! I looked forward each time Mom took me shoe shopping!
I wore Buster Brown shoe in the 1950s. Great shoes and great quality
I have a foggy memory of when I was around 4 years old ( 1960) and my new shoes. Tight. Sturdy. Dark Brown.
My mom told me they were Buster Browns.
I remember "Hi! I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe. This is my dog Tige, he lives here too"
I remember I used to get a birthday card with a nickel attached to the card when it was my birthday
The boy that portrayed Buster Brown in vaudeville houses and department stores grew (not much) to be a man named Ed Ansley. He lived in Hugo, Oklahoma a few blocks from my grandmother. I got to meet him in the summer of 1970. He was 50 inches tall and was moving a bit slow by then. He died a couple of years later in a nursing home. The city park was named for him after he died in his honor. He is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery near my family. His gravestone is quite remarkable!
I remember getting our feet x-rayed in the shoe store every fall when getting our back to school shoes for the year. Times have certainly changed.
The shoe store had an X-Ray machine?!? That's certainly different!
Remember those too glad they found out quick how bad those things were for us ! like 20 times the radiation exposure than a X ray at the hospital !!!
Oh, yes! The x-ray machine was a giant box with a step and two openings for the feet to slide into. The salesman and your parents would look down into a visor on top of the box and they could see how your feet fit in the shoes you had on. I remember the shoe salesman lifting me up to see my little sister's x-ray. It was funny to see her boney toes wiggling in her shoes. Not so funny now that we know how dangerous that was. Makes me wonder how bad it was for the salesman who was always by the x-ray machine.
If we could get away with it our hands would go in too. Aside from my black patent leather for winter and white patent leather for summer my favorite were the English Sandler's for school shoes.
Excellent quality shoes. Mom would always get me Buster Brown shoes. That fresh new leather smell will be remembered always!!!
Hush puppy shoes 👍
@@captainamericaamerica8090
Are hush puppy shoes still around?
Yeah my little brother had those buster brown shoes,
He needed corrective shoes;
Those shoes that my parents bought for my little brother were used in a correction apparatus. For my little brothers needs,
My little brother finally grew up and grew up out of the need for those corrective shoes (setups);
However, I really remember going into a buster- brown shoe store. As a little kid who was extremely bored ;
But I definitely remember those days
Definitely an interesting article;
Peace out everyone
A nice piece about that shoe company 👍👍
Happy 420 !!
I received my first pair of Buster Browns oxfords from Bambergers Department store in 1971 when I entered first grade. For the next several years I would continue to see new pairs until four grade when sneakers took the place of brown leather shoes. I loved those shoes. It made me feel as if I was growing up with every step I took.
I was born in 71, so I remember wearing Buster Brown shoes almost exclusively until I was 10 or 11. I had black ones and brown ones, and I had a pair of the saddle oxfords when I was very young. Good shoes for sure. I outgrew them, I never wore them out.
Loved the hush puppy and the saddle shoe
They needlessly demolished the great old Buster Brown shoes main plant in St Louis a couple of years ago for a new project. Loved that building. As you can see briefly on map during this video there used to be dozens of Brown Shoe factories in and around St Louis. Every other town within 150 miles or so had one. As for me we couldn't afford them except for one Christmas when I got a pair.
What about the machine that radiated our feet ? It was in their stores in the 50's
I don't remember that, what did the machine really accomplish?
It was an X-ray machine that would show your toes inside the shoe to see if you had room to grow. You could look in a viewer and wiggle your toes and see them move. I believe you could also see the bones in your toes. The radiation was not good for you.
Yes, I remember that X-Ray machine well. It was the early 50's.
I remember that! An X-Ray machine you put your feet in at the shoe store. I remember it was around the time of Saddle Shoes. My shoes were the solid brown boy style. I remember that I was worried they were going to fit me with the girl saddle shoes😂
That was before they knew the dangers of that much radiation. I'm sure who ever used them are now dead or have cancer. An Xray machine in only a few seconds, so to be exposed long enough to measure you feet is zapping the hell out of your genes.
We were way to poor for Buster Brown Shoes or any name brand anything.
i wore spartan store shoes k-mart or family dollar ,or hand me downs ! Hell,I thought we were rich !! LOL !!!
Buster Brown shoes were the shoes of my childhood!
Buster Brown and, Hush Puppies were a big huge part of my childhood. There was a ton of shoes in my home back then, since, my mom worked at the U.S. Shoe Factory in our town. The Shoe Factory wasn’t that far from our school so, after school we usually would walk there to see mom and, hang out, me in particular and, my aunt and other families worked there to, on both my mom and, dad’s side, so, I got to see them quite often. I even got to try out some of the machines, I loved it. My mom would get catalogs and, she could get shoes for a discounted price. But, we were still always buying shoes though in the store and, we always went to one shoe store in particular in Indiana even though we lived in Ohio. But, my mom had family in Indiana. So, we often loved going to that shoe shop in particular, that was when, you would go to the store and going to a shoe store was a full service experience. And, you knew the people at the store as if they were part of your family. Just like after you saw the doctor when, you checked out you got to get to pick out a sucker or a few. I ended up having a pair of Mary Jane’s in Every color. They were mostly to wear in the Spring Season and Church.
My brothers and I, wore Buster Brown Shoes. Happy memories❤
~ I had a brown wing-tipped pair to match my Dads brogues. A plain toe oxford as well for school.
Wow I did not realize that they were in existence that long..😳😊
Loved it when it was time for new school shoes dad would bring us to buster browns get true shoe size with that fancy metal foot sizer great shoes great quality made to last man those were the days
I had a few pairs of wingtips in the course of my boyhood. Brown ones.
I remember my parents could not afford Buster Brown shoes.
Years ago some kids defaced a sign on Amity Island and the Mayor wanted to string them up by their Buster Browns.
I remember mom getting me some when i was small
Don't forget Red Goose Shoes!
I had some of those shoes 50 years ago. I still have them!
I didn't have sneakers as a kid. I used to be bullied because I liked my Buster Browns. Yeah, I used them like sneakers then. Didn't care either when I got teased. I would just stick my tongue out. It was my way of dismissing them. I had fun in them shoes. Thanx, I was going to Catholic School then. I chose my Buster Browns over buying Keds. BB are sporty.
Hills Bros. shoes Springfield Ill. Slogan was "2 for 5 man alive"
Wonderful shoes! My feet were always protected and comfortable. I wore them and my children wore them, as well as their excellent socks.
I bought my son his first pair of BB shoes in 1974 when he was 2 yrs old.
That night he went to sleep clutching his new shoes.
My family was poor when I was a little boy, but my parents felt that good shoes were important for us to grow up healthy. So what I remember most was the sacrifice my parents made to buy me a pair of Buster Browns, as I entered first grade. It was a big deal, and I was so enamored with the shoe store, that on the drive home I told my mother that when I grew up, I was going to be a shoe salesman! Now that was a kind of quality and service experience that we no longer find.
Both my kids grew up in Buster Brown! Excellent quality.
Oh my, 70 years ago, we had to travel 50 miles to get my oldest son's extra wide Buster Brown high top shoes!
You're making me feel old I wore those shoes
LOL. When the music you liked as a teenager is now referred to as "classic."
I used to get my BBs from Boyce and Lewis shoes. They too are long gone.
You forgot to mention the unshielded shoe fitting x-ray machines they had in their stores: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
My saddle shoes, they were all the rage back then!❤
I remember in the 1950s that my mother took me to get Mary Jane shoes. those were some of my Fondest Memories of growing up in New York City
Dad was a public school teacher and mom was a homemaker so we couldn't afford Buster Browns for my sisters and me. We got our shoes from Louie and Shoal Pozez at their Pay Less shoe store on SW 6th street in Topeka, KS. This was the original Payless Shoe Source store and in those days Children's shoes could be had for as low as "2 pair 5 dollars."
Do one on Red Goose shoes. PF Flyers perhaps.
had one pair of Buster Brown's, but RED BALL JETs were the shoe of choice in my mom's pocket book. I grew through several pairs until Payless Shoes showed up. Then it wasn't so expensive to keep me in shoes. by the time I was 14, I was 6 foot 1 inch tall, so I had Grown Through A LOT of Shoes and clothes.
I remember wearing the ox blood red tie shoes,with the fringe on them. I was always wanting sneakers, but my Mother thought they were cheap looking and only for gym class.
My first couple of pairs of hard shoes were BBs. They were the brown round toe wing tips, something like 06:15. Then in second or 3rd grade I got my last pair of BBs which were black oxfords.
Born in 1961 and these shoes were my first shows with many many pairs to follow for years!!!! Absolutely loved them!!!!!
My Dad was an orthopedic shoe repairman and he wouldn't buy anything else. Cheers.
I think I remember a different jingle, or else this is another part of it, "Buster Brown and Tige will be your pal for ages, Look for a store that sells them in the Yellow Pages". I think I only owned one pair of them. My parents always thought name brand things were over-priced, and we would get cheaper off-brand in anything they could find. We weren't that poor, either. When canned foods came out with plain white and black labels, they were ecstatic. No more Del Monte at our house!! P.S. My Dad left a sizeable estate behind, and a paid-off house that I'm living in. Not too shabby!
Bring these back!!!!!!!! I grew up wearing these!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I will never forget, late 60's early 70's going to Catholic School as a child with my Buster Brown shoes ☺️
I had Buster Brown's lace-up leather Mary Janes, a bit of a heel. I was in grade 1, 1975 and felt so proud wearing them to school. They felt so smooth on the inside and the laces were smooth rounded dark brown and my mom would lace them up snuggly. They had that brand-new leathery smell! Ohh, the memories, when department stores were fabulous and malls weren't around (I despise malls)
There was a Buster Brown about 3 doors away from our old 4 story walk-up apartment building in Astoria Queens way back in the 60s. And it had already been there long before we had moved there. I remember Mom buying my brother and I shoes there a couple of times. But Buster Browns were expensive so it was only those couple of times. Yeah, those were the days.....☺
Born in the 70's and I still remember mom taking me yearly to have my feet measured and get a new pair of buster browns.
Does your shoe have a boy inside?
What a funny place for a boy to hide
Does your shoe have a dog there too
A boy and a dog and a foot in a shoe
Well the boy is Buster Brown
and the dog is Tighe his friend
and they're really just a picture,
But its fun to play pretend
So look look look in the telephone book
For the store that sells the shoe
With the picture of the boy and dog inside
that you can put your foot into!
Buster Brown Shoes!
That's what I remember!
Growing up in Glenwood Springs, Colorado I used to deliver newspapers to Buster Brown's house at the corner of 13th and Grand Avenue.
Later on I dated a girl who told me the story of how her mother had been on a hunting trip with a then elderly Buster, and how due to his poor eyesight, had shot his own horse, thinking it was an elk.
In the 60s when I was around 3 or 4 to 7, Buster Brown and Kids were the only shoes. Kids were for play and Buster Brown were for school and church. I not sure of when I started Kids sneakers, It was probable around 6.
R.i.p 🥺 thanks for the great memories gone but never forgotten ❤️💯
Thank you from the depths of my heart. Your short history lessons makes me long for a more pleasant time in my life. When simple pleasures and hard work made the USA a grand place to call home.
When I was a tot my mum would buy Buster Brown shoes for me at the local Kiddie Kobbler. Good days. :o)
i remember in the 90's to the 00's wearing mary janes and loving them they were the shoe i wore the most mostly cuz i had a uniform during school and those were the only other shoe that were allowed for girls to wear other than the sneaker to PE
I had a mix of Buster Browns and Stride-Rites...
My mother made me wear hard Buster Brown shoes all the time when I was a kid in the erroneous belief that they were better for my feet than soft sneakers. It wasn’t until I hit puberty and switched doctors that she was told she was wrong. That ended my BB shoe wearing.
For whatever reason my father was overly concerned with taking care of your feet. Maybe because his mom, my grandma was a nurse. Anyway, we always had the proper footwear. Even when high end sneakers started to appear in the early '70's he took us shopping. Puma Clydes, Converse All-Stars, Adidia Superstars.
Being raised in St. Louis. I had a couple pair of Buster Brown.
My mother would take us to this cute little shoe store for our Buster Browns. It was like 35 miles from where we lived but she would always take us there when we needed shoes
Beautiful video... I had Buster Browns as a child. Gotva new pair for first day of school and Easter :)
New Mary Janes for my Easter outfit.
I remember foot x-ray machines in shoe stores with the glowing green light inside.
Best quality shoes I wore as a child. 😊❤️💕
My mom wanted to buy them for me because they were so stylish I liked my sneakers much better I wore them summer and winter I liked the army surplus boots !! they would last forever ! Mom just gave up and bought what I liked best