Kinney Shoes - Life in America

[@pamelamays4186]

The good old days when buying new school clothes and shoes was a day long adventure.

[@tekman196]

The good old days when the whole family went to the shoe store . We usually got two pairs a year . I miss those days . Such good memories. Imagine life being so simple that just getting a new pair of shoes was everything in the world .

[@aruglaempire2518]

You know it!!!

[@bargeld09]

Yes. The good old days when families spent time together and good customer service.

[@ДмитрийДунаев-е1л]

Yeah! Good old time when things were made for years. Yesterday i bought used Kinney Colorado hiking boots for 12$. Ooh they are awesome. Extra quality!

[@glennso47]

We were easily entertained in those days weren’t we?

[@markgrove2030]

All these RR videos are gems, causing us oldies to recall times long gone. This one rang true in so many ways. Here's an offshoot; in the Midwest when school ended for the year young boys would: --get their (hated) buzz-type haircuts and spend 90% of the summer outside. NOT inside. Doing anything/everything outside. --get their "tennis shoes" AKA Red Ball Jets or such. Often totally trashed by Labor Day due to insane activities like climbing trees, taking them into the pool, you name it. So surprised we didn't trash ourselves much less the RBJs. Mom washed them, painted Merthiolate or iodine on our wounds, & sent our young asses back out to do even more stupid stunts. America in the early 60s was a time when we knew who we were, and made it thru somehow anyway. Thanks SO much for these. Keep em coming!!

[@carolhodges9899]

Going to Kinney’s was an incredible shopping experience. You’d go in, sit down, they’d measure your foot, they’d go in the back and bring out the shoes, slip the shoe on your foot and secure it, check to see if it fit your foot, then encourage you to walk around to see how it feels. I loved it! We’d go before the new school year and before Easter every year. It was a fun family outing. I loved the shoes we bought there! It was a sad day when they closed. Only the obscenely wealthy can afford a shoe shopping experience like that today. Thank you for this trip down memory lane.

[@map3384]

Easter shoes. Those are days gone by. I can remember everyone wearing suits and dresses to church . My mother would make a big fuss over our Easter outfits, then the moment we got home from church we were to take them off and hang them.

[@ethelnewberry9296]

Carol Hodges: Are you a former MTS Lady??? I recognize the name from work, but you may not be that same lady I knew back then. So, if you aren't the same person, then I do apologize for bothering you. And, if you are the same gal, you may be interested the shoe store I'm going to tell you about. But first, a couple thoughts about me so you know that this is not a fool hearty incident. I am retired 25 years from MTS and enjoying life. Anyway, if you'd like that same shopping experience again, go to Mast Shoes in A2, West side of town, down by Jackson Rd. area. They used to be located on Main St. downtown, and a store on Liberty in the campus area. Sorry, can't think of the name of the strip Mall, but if you take Washtenaw, the name changes to Stadium @ the Big House, keep in the left hand lane and slow down when you get to Zingerman's, turn left, and the Mall is right there. I was @ Mast 2/3 months ago and bought 3 pair new shoes. You get the old fashioned treatment of complete foot measuring, the whole nine yards, with very nice sales people. The store sells only the highest quality shoes, and has trained all their sales staff, so the price you pay for the old time experience is costly, but well worth it. I've shopped Mast about 40+ years. You won't be sorry. I've never been sorry at all. Anyway, leave me a note on this shoe cite that you're going & maybe if you like I could meet you there, and have lunch after shopping. I don't want to give out my email these days...I'm sure you'll understand that.

[@glennso47]

Did they have the X-ray machine that helped to measure your feet? That was always cool to see your feet inside the shoes.

[@robertsparks3584]

Back when America was good and getting shoes was special. A nice store.

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

until the quality went way down at the beginning of the 80s, with cheaply made imported and uncomfortable leather. Started downhill in the Reagan Era. America wasn't all good then, and it's not all bad now. But the middle class has been destroyed to a large degree by tax policy and corporate greed.

[@maplemanz]

Everything they make now is total shit.

[@whoeva23]

shut yall old asses up

[@julioalvarenga8608]

@@maplemanz don’t start thinking that malls don’t have good stores nowadays bruh

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I had a scent memory while watching this; I could smell what it was like in a shoe store. Haven't thought about it for years.

[@melodyhart1331]

I get those scent memories,those were good times ! I remember when you would sit down and the magic would unfold !

[@tomfrazier1103]

I got knocked out & lost my smell in '99. I sometimes get "Ghost smells", I smell Hawaiian flowers or brake fluid and there is neither around.

[@shibolinemress8913]

@@tomfrazier1103 Oh no! How did you adjust? 🤗🤗

[@tomfrazier1103]

@@shibolinemress8913 l just don't smell stuff. That loss is one of the least of my worries, my whole life changed, not allowed to drive, make my own decisions etc. That was twenty years ago, so now have a. Modus vivendi.

[@shibolinemress8913]

@@tomfrazier1103 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@prn24]

Kinney shoes and a Robert Hall suit for our Easter family photos. Great memories.

[@richardyoung4616]

School bells ring and children sing it's back Robert Hall again.

[@KashfuzzCrochet76]

Same here! 👍🌻🌻

[@edwardoalvarez5566]

Those ware the good old days.

[@matrox]

In my hood there was a Kinney Shoes and Robert Hall right next to each other.

[@justinthyme7275]

Kinney, Stride Rite and Buster Brown. Remember them all. And our clothes came from Dayton's. My parents had 10 kids, put us all through private schools in the 60s. My dad had a highschool education but worked his butt off. My mom stayed home.

[@Ire308]

Wow Buster Brown shoes! I remember wearing them to school. Those shoes would never die, I just simply outgrew them.

[@map3384]

@@Ire308 I had buster browns. My first pair for first grade bought at Bambergers in Nanuet NY in 1971. When I began elementary school it was forbidden to wear sneakers. By the time I was in 5th grade everybody wore Keds or Converse.

[@CharlottePrattWilson]

I was the oldest of 10 kids and my mom stayed home too. What memories. Kinney had so many cute shoes for teens.

[@joysoyo2416]

Now no fault divorce makes it hard for women to stay home with kids. What if I get divorced is in the back of their minds.

[@alansenzaki4148]

Wow. I remember all that. You must be from minneapolis as iam. I always shopped at Dayton's or Donaldson's...went to Ramsey and Washburn high.

[@eileenlester4342]

Loved this store in the 70s.💜

[@lorettasal]

I can still remember getting my white patent Easter shoes with a snap on bow.

[@bighands69]

I forgot that patent shoes existed.

[@lottamiles5510]

I loved my white patent leather shoes. Do you remember the reddish scuff marks?

[@lorettasal]

@@lottamiles5510 oh yes I do lol

[@paperthyme]

I got my first pair of white bucks for the marching band in Jr. High

[@luv2cook.]

Memories...simple times.

[@jimmyjames6267]

Always loved that smell in shoe stores when I was a kid

[@gavincurtis]

Reminds me of summer bike rides ending and school starting. :P New shoes and new school supplies. Very mixed emotions that smell triggers for sure!

[@glennso47]

I didn't like the smell of the Payless Shoe store though.It smelled like glue.

[@andreatuckman1084]

@@glennso47 that’s because they were (are) plastic , not leather.

[@whitegoose1434]

Funny how you commented on that. While watching the video I was thinking about how the shoe store smelled.

[@hertzair1186]

...me too...but I heated the shoes my mom bought me as she always bought them two sizes larger, as I would likely “grow” into them before I wore them out.

[@pattig656]

I didn't know that Kinney's was connected to Woolworths. Or, that Foot Locker sprang from Kinney's. Growing up, my family shopped at Kinney's all the time. The sales people at our local store were so nice, and great service.

[@candysmith8724]

I didn't know either, I remember seeing Kinney Shoes in all the malls growing up. Tom McCann was another one. I think stores like Payless filled the Kinney Shoes void.

[@donaldperez7981]

I didn't know either. However, I will admit in the beginning of this video when I saw the black and white photo of a G.R.Kinny and company Incorporated, I noticed that the lettering that Woolworths uses which is gold metallic 3D letters is what I noticed and I said to myself, that looks like the lettering that Woolworths uses. Thank you for bringing that to my attention about being connected to each other

[@spokanetomcat1]

I have bought only a few shoes from Foot Locker over the years.

[@AndrewAMartin]

I knew, because I worked for the company for 14 years... I sent my resume to Kinney Service Corp, and got a call from Woolworth, and was confused, LOL! Kinney was just one of a dozen 'divisions' that were all run mostly separately, with their own hierarchy and sharing some services, and Woolworth Corp was mainly a holding company (of which the Woolworth stores were just another division). Woolworth Corporation grew mostly through acquisition, not organically from within, and integration was barely adequate, in my opinion leaving way too much upper management in the corporate hierarchy. And internal practices were shortsighted and sometimes downright stupid. A lot of these problems came to light when they tried to purchase The Sports Authority from KMart. Anyway, they closed under-performing chains, sold a few that were doing well (AfterThoughts, for example) and after a wasteful corporate name change, eventually renamed again to Foot Locker Inc.

[@AndrewAMartin]

@@candysmith8724 The market for 'brown shoes' changed and Kinney couldn't keep up -- the bottom end got taken over by Walmart (even Payless has had problems), and Kinney didn't have the reputation to move to the high end, so they were left without a market when the middle dried up. They even tried a Payless-style chain called FootQuarters, but that (and an early 2000's reboot) didn't fare well.

[@susanbuckley4153]

I remember this wonderful shoe store .. the quality was great! I shopped there all through my high school years.. I miss those days.

[@dianealbrecht496]

OMG, how i remember that store. I remember my mom taking me & my siblings there for sneakers. It was a cool store, & i felt like such a grown up picking out my sneakers. Good old days...

[@LA_HA]

Layaway. I totally remember that. Wow. Wow...

[@chelebelle2223]

Meee Toooo!! I sometimes tend to get it mixed up when trying to refer to Payless shoes!.....😄 Kinney's etched on the brain!

[@angeladay1534]

Yes!!!! Not pressured, you could take your time. We also shopped at Thom McCann for dressy shoes. Most salespeople, actually tried to make sure you found what you were looking for and also, in the right size! 👠👠👟👟 👡👡👢👢🥿🥿👞👞😄

[@angeladay1534]

@@LA_HA Wow....I never an knew they had layaway!

[@LA_HA]

@@angeladay1534 Layaway was huge back in the day, according to my older siblings and parents. I was too young to know that's what they were doing. But, yeah, clothes and shoes were put on layaway and a couple weeks before school started, it was time to make the last payment and pick up our school wardrobe. Every season had the season or two before with stuff on layaway. September, Christmas, and Easter, especially. haha.

[@ndog2005]

Thank you for the Great Memories;

[@CH-tg6zq]

I was in a nationwide Kinney Shoes commercial in 1973. I drove my sister (who wanted to be an actress) to the audition. The director saw me standing on the side and liked my high school letterman jacket. He stuck me in the commercial and I had my 15 seconds of fame. 😉

[@ethelnewberry9296]

CH: Good for you!!! It's a possibility I saw you. One never knows. And, to think I am writing to a TV celebrity this very minute...Will wonders never cease. lol!!! lol!!! Thank you.

[@angeladay1534]

Cool! 🏆🎥🎬

[@rufust.firefly4890]

Back in the day when there was such a thing as CUSTOMER SERVICE.Woolworth's five and dime----a kid was rich if he had dollar.

[@wyattdean5658]

Brannock Device for shoes

[@rufust.firefly4890]

@@sherril.562 LOL. I know the feeling.

[@scottmiller8396]

I remember when the sales person would measure your foot and bring the shoes and lace them up and let you walk around with them on

[@luissantiago8446]

Its called service. Which has just about vanished from public practice.

[@LasVegas68]

@@luissantiago8446 We must be about the same age if you remember that. Lol

[@brianchisnell1548]

Most shoe stores did in the 60s when I was growing up

[@luissantiago8446]

@@brianchisnell1548 This is true.

[@scottmiller8396]

@@LasVegas68 born in 60

[@R32R38]

The New York Post had one of the best headlines ever when the corporate owner shut down the stores: "Oh my God, they killed Kinney!"

[@bighands69]

They rebranded as Footlocker which was to appeal to the urban buyer that is not really a market to focus on.

[@AndrewAMartin]

@@bighands69 Foot Locker had already existed for over 20 years when Kinney was shut down, along with Lady Foot Locker and Kids Foot Locker. Sales at Foot Locker were so good, they hid a lot of the internal problems both in the other divisions and in the overall corporate structure -- Kinney was just one of a dozen 'divisions' that were all run mostly separately, with their own hierarchy and sharing some services, and Woolworth Corp was mainly a holding company (of which the Woolworth stores were just another division). Fun Fact: the guy in charge of shutting down Woolworth stores was also in charge of shutting down Kinney; he was then put in charge of Champs Sports and almost ran it into the ground before getting canned. Woolworth Corporation grew mostly through acquisition, not organically from within, and integration was barely adequate, in my opinion leaving way too much upper management in the corporate hierarchy. And internal practices were shortsighted and sometimes downright stupid. A lot of these problems came to light when they tried to purchase The Sports Authority from KMart. Anyway, they closed under-performing chains, sold a few that were doing well (AfterThoughts, for example) and after a wasteful corporate name change, eventually renamed again to Foot Locker Inc.

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

I still have a shoe box from Kinneys that I have had since I was a kid. The shoes are long gone, but the box has survived to keep small items in.

[@leehenderson8132]

I had a Kinnys across the street growing up.heres a jingle from the 70s there's more to go to kinneys for than just a pair of shoes.

[@tylerzorn6152]

I have to cry when I think about the great times and the fun we had at those stores such a great time I miss them so much..... Oh how I wish we could bring those times back such a wonderful time I miss them so much. Thank you so much for sharing this video what a joy it was to watch. !!!

[@meshell3333]

My first job @ 16 was Kinney Shoes! This company taught me how to be a great salesman for my own company years later. Great memories!

[@mistergrandpasbakery9941]

Thank you for ACCURATELY telling this story!

[@carlahubbs3602]

I remember that shoe store, it was a nice shoe store.

[@franlooving4203]

I worked for Wild Pair many years, a division of Edison Brothers. I liked how Kinneys, Wild Pair, Naturalizers etc in our mall had something for everyone. Thanks.

[@skylilly1]

I loved Wild Pair. I spent a lot of money in there. lol If I remember correctly, they also sold belts and purses? Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@philhatfield8905]

For many middle class kids in the 1960's and 70's, Kinney's was the place we were taken to get our back-to-school shoes. Sears and Kmart for the clothes; Kinney's for the shoes. Mom would say: "You boys have it good; poor folks go to Pic and Pay!"

[@RandyDubin]

Back in the good old days before the era of the brand of shoe you bought really mattered....

[@hazcat640]

Footlocker is one of the major players in that brand name premium.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Who could forget your grandmother's strict admonition not to forget to put on your galoshes as you trudge off to your elementary school on a rainy morning. Those galoshes were purchased at Kinney Shoes, only they called them Rubbers...anyway your feet never got wet thanks to Granny

[@aviyahchaverim9388]

Always loved both Kinneys and Thom McAn

[@ethelnewberry9296]

OMG!!! I've shopped at all these stores. Both my Husband and Brother worked at Thom McCann, I worked at Kinney's back then. Very lovely stores. Anything about Payless Shoes??? That's where I took all my kids for their shoes. My daughter still has a pair of sweet little sandals from Payless I bough in the very early 70's...Probably 1970 or '71 making them 50 years old by this time...She must have been 14 then, because she's 64 now. Such memories we make during our lifetimes.

[@Mouserjan0222]

I still see those buildings in my town. One is a restaurant another is a paint store.

[@billiemays872]

We still have one of the buildings in my town. It was a car quest auto parts store for quite a while now it has been an Aaron's rent to own for many years.

[@ilovegoodsax]

One of the old Kinney Shoe stores in my city is now a Guitar Center.

[@daleroberts8772]

In the town i live in they are a regional appliance store in spokane washington!

[@Kinseydsp]

Only Shoe I wore Back in those Days of the 60's & 70's. Loved them, But Sadly they were Gone.

[@lvlinda6]

Kinney Shoes was THE place to get shoes. Affordable and great selections. I cried when they closed. ✌🏻💖🌺

[@ronaldbowman6059]

I remember when I was around eighteen years of age, I worked for Kinney shoes 👟 it was one of my first real job. I didn’t know the history behind the name. Thanks for the history lesson.

[@cheryl9032]

Christmas time every year as a child, go to the mall Christmas shopping, often have dinner at Teds and go to Kinney’s for Church shoes or school shoes, whichever was needed at the time. Such a wonderful family memory

[@brendaspamperedkitchen9878]

We, all 7 kids, would get our Easter shoes here. Sweet memories, thank you.

[@sfdanceron1]

Totally forgot about Kenny's Shoes. When I was a kid, they were all over the place. Bought many a shoe from Kenny's, lol.

[@frankdenardo8684]

I Remember Ken Berry doing the TV commercials back in the 1970's

[@paulmezhir8354]

It's KINN-EY, not Kenny.

[@kennethcarroll2041]

All my shoes as a youth came from Kinneys. We had one in the town I grew up in.A nice associate would always greet you and measure your foot with that metal shoe sizer to find out what shoe size you were.I remember my mother buying me the NBA’s that came in a variety of colors.Always a superb selection to choose from.Very fond moments & memories I will never forget.

[@oh2bme1860]

My mom always bought my Saddle shoes there !!♥️

[@Quiltycrazy]

Shopped there all the time.

[@raymathews7035]

My parents use to buy my shoes at Kenny's shoe store ...To bad th hey went under...🙁

[@annieis300]

I worked for Kinney Shoes at two different malls from 1981-1983. It was so much fun! Good times ♥♥♥ Thank you for this video... brings back memories :)

[@bear1more287]

Remember the Kinney shoes 👞 Gas in the 70’s ,popular place to buy them 👍🏻

[@tsf5-productions]

Yes...I remember the company, and a particular episode in my teenage life of Christmas vacation, 1966 buying with Christmas money from my grandmom, my first pair of "loafers" that didn't do me well but Hey! ... it was the "in thing" back then in shoes! Had to return them...slightly worn and that did not set well with the store manager. Anyway...I got a few other shoe items from them over their years of existence. Sorry to see them gone like so many retail companies over the decades.

[@zms8092]

I remember shopping here in the 80s with my mom (in San Jose, Cal), and distinctly remember the clerks in my store would give kids one of those long pretzel sticks when we’d come in.

[@sharleenparrino2297]

Remember well Easter shoes white patent leather so shiny! Felt like a princess buying them in Norwalk California on Firestone Ave!👑 🐇🌷🥚🍫✝️🎀💕🦋👗👒👛

[@angeladay1534]

Yes! 👸🏽

[@lanacampbell-moore4549]

Thank you for sharing 😊

[@datturaokulkarni6604]

Great memories Thanks.

[@laurieshafer2266]

Gosh it has been years since I thought about Kinney's shoes. Fun to reminisce.

[@joysoyo2416]

They had quality shoes. I still remember my sandals with a daisy on it, and my patent leather church shoes.

[@ohiohiker4301]

I was about 10 when I got my 1st pair of Kinney shoes, in the early 1970's, and I got a free Peter Max poster. I thought it was so cool. 🙂

[@R32R38]

Probably the only astronomer turned artist.

[@edlightman4936]

we bought shoes at kinney's in northen lights shopping center in baden pa. and jacksons shoe store in ambridge pa. they both sold good american made shoes that lasted a long time .

[@robertcorso6937]

Back in the 50’s they x radiation your foot in shoe to size it .I worked at one of the biggest stores in sales.it was on 3rd and north In Milwaukee .good old days!

[@bernadettegreen7134]

I recall Baden Pa. north of Pittsburgh Pa. Had a JC Penney store in the shopping center also.

[@cynthianichols9085]

I worked at Kinney Shoes in the 1980’s!! They were HUGE! Sad to see the end

[@theirmom4723]

Me too....1982-1983...my first job...got it the summer I got my drivers license. The ad shown of the lady in the blue dress and high heels...I worked in those shoes.

[@sheerwillsurvival2064]

Keep em coming great stuff 👍🏻

[@judybicknell8610]

My mom bought me a pair of saddle shoes from Kinney shoe store in the 60's. EeeGads I'm feelin OLD! Thanks for the memories 😭🤣🤣

[@cynthiahanas7003]

Just talking about this store a couple of days ago...brings back memories

[@sallygordin2869]

My Grandma always got my school shoes at Kinney's. I remember how they took time to measure and make sure they fit just right.

[@cmclem1959]

I remember shopping at Kinney Shoes growing up.

[@chrisrcarraher8800]

I remember my mom taking me to the local Kinney every summer to buy school shoes.

[@darrellhicks393]

in 1981 I was a Store Manager for Kinney Shoes in Oklahoma City. You would not believe how many people would crowd into the store the Sat. before Easter. We sold hundreds and hundreds of shoes on that day alone! We would often start out new salesmen on that day to see if they could cut it. It was a brutal day of work running back and forth from chairs to the stockroom for boxes and boxes of shoes for 12 hours. It was a wonderful company to work for and I learned so much from them. Thanks for the memories!

[@angeladay1534]

Thanks, soooo much, for your dedication and hard work! 🏆💖

[@jillbriska2416]

I remember the man measuring my foot and how it tickled when he did my arch and the smell of shoe stores. I remember GASS shoes at Kinney- the bottom of the shoe was like a rubber stamp and you could see the word GASS as you walked in the snow! Gosh I wish I could go back- it seems like a whole other lifetime now. Maybe, years from now, I will remember today fondly too. Time has a way of making even hard times somehow sweeter. I hope my children will have good memories of simple everyday things that make a life unique and special. I wouldn’t trade mine for anything!

[@angeladay1534]

Those Earthshoes were comfortable! 😄💖

[@keithwilson6060]

Kinney and Thom McAn were two competing brands who always showed up in malls together. I just noticed a Recollection Road video on Thom McAn. Can’t wait to watch it.

[@kerriirvin5206]

A blast from the past

[@jedidrummerjake]

Worked there too in '81-'82. Great company to work for. Quality shoes.

[@paulaguilar5041]

1 of those Kinney shoe stores was in concord calif. the building is still here. It is Anna’s attic thrift store. I knew it instantly when I saw the building.

[@yvonnemcgowan90]

Omg all my siblings and myself shoes 👞 came out of Kinney's, loved ❤ that store so many childhood memories going there especially around Easter🐣

[@Angel283]

I loved Kinney Shoes as a kid. I got my first pair of "high heels" there at age 10. They were 1 inch wooden wedge sandals.

[@paperthyme]

When I was 13, I was allowed to pick out a pair of "Debbie Heels"! I was sooo grown up I thought!

[@angeladay1534]

Yeppers! My first black suede, open heeled sling back, low platforms actually came from Thom McAn. We went to Kinney's, too, I don't think they had my size. These were for my great aunt's funeral, in 1973.

[@debbiesittard7979]

Yep!! Patent leather Roman sandals.. 1966. I just absoutely LOVE this channel! There really is nothing left standing in this crazy, mixed up world today that even closely resembles my childhood. Sad...

[@angeladay1534]

Agree.😢😭 💔🙏🏽📖

[@leonardcroft1467]

Great Video !! I remember my parents taking us to Kinney Shoes for new School Shoes in Warwick R.I.

[@haircole]

We were a local shoe store that gave you one free pair after you bought 12 as I grew up I shop at a local boutique style department store with very high style . I remember seeing Kinney Shoes all over

[@m.susandenton1077]

I remember Kinney's Shoe store when I was a small kid. I miss these stores.

[@aruglaempire2518]

Robert Hall and Kinney's our families staple of stores. Miss all of it.

[@scottonasch8819]

I miss this store to this day. I always found something there and it was always affordable. I learned about the Woolworth's connection when trying to find out why the stores seemingly disappeared overnight.

[@mariamarinucci2251]

We bought our babies first good shoes at a Kinney's right before they went out of business. What beautiful memories! The plaza where it stood is long gone and a new one put there. All of the nice chain stores we used to go to are gone. 😢

[@ethelnewberry9296]

Maria Marinucci: It's just so very sad these old haunts are gone from present times. I think the younger generation would have learned so much from the way we used to do things, and conduct our life style. But, life does live on going forward for the new generation to make their own, "Does Anyone Remember" pages in history. This must be the cycle of life we talk about...Just as we are doing on this site this very minute. Posted Thursday July 15, 2021. Enjoy your summer, dear heart.

[@alliedsandblasting9211]

I live next door to an old Kinneys in Fullerton California, my friend was a salesman there in early 80s

[@returnofthebrotha]

This channel shows old time stores and brands that I recall when I was a child, but had no idea just how far they went back! Clearly, the store front idea had it's time and many places can't sustain.

[@DONHARRISONMUSIC]

I used to buy my shoes at kinneys shoe store in bell gardens ca ✅👍💯

[@panatypical]

My family moved to Santa Ana California in 1964. The very last building in town along Bristol Street on the south side was a Kinney shoe store. That lot ended with a 4 ft chain link fence beyond which there were miles of pole beans, on land farmed by the Segerstrom family. Within three years most of that farmland had been sold and South Coast plaza was opened over the City line in Costa Mesa. Today it's solid businesses from Warner Avenue down to the 73 freeway and past that a bit. The Kinney shoe store is now an AutoZone, but the Kinney Shoe Store building and sign structure remain.

[@fabtel2162]

I am not even American, but I am going to see all your videos for sure.

[@dougwilson4529]

I got my first pair of Beatle Boots at Kinney in 1964. I was 9 years old and was so proud.

[@msdash9305]

Thank you for this nice video of the past.🐣

[@LasVegas68]

I had forgotten about Kinney shoes! I used to take my kids there for their back to school shoes. Lol

[@arugulaempire8779]

My mother did not drive. We walked everywhere. Luckily there was a Kinney Shoes and Robert Hall Clothing store within walking distance. We would go there for school shoes and clothes. It was a lot fun. Robt. Hall was packed with clothing And the Kinney Shoes always had a good selection of styles. It was fun.

[@dubs5965]

I remember Kinney Shoes on Story Rd. in San Jose. It was the local hangout. Everyone would stop by “the store.” Big glass windows so you could see everything going on. Many local kids had Kinney as a first Bob. Really sharpened the communication skills for later in life. Most of us fortunate enough to work there in the 70’s and 80’s went on to pursue excellence. Miss my Kinney Family.

[@joycejackson9315]

When I was a kid my mother always went too Kenny shoes for our school shoe. We got one pair a year. Tennis shoes were only worn in gym class. After school was out we would wear our cloth tennis shoes too play in the summer. Every Easter I got white shiny patent leathers shoes thier too. Great video.

[@angeladay1534]

Yes, back when most people believed in GOD and went to church, learning to be kind, polite, respectful citizens. Oh, how this world needs this so desperately! 💔😢😭📖🙏🏽📖

[@melodyhart1331]

I grew up in New Orleans,things were so much better then !

[@michaelbelmontes4046]

I remember Kinney's 😁👍🏻

[@karenrich9092]

Boy I sure learned a lot from this video! I remember going to the Kinney Shoes store near my grandmother's house when we were kids. It seemed to be a family tradition to get our shoes there.

[@lauraryan8921]

Earth shoes and Colorado hiking boots with the red laces. Virtually indestructible. To every season turn, turn, turn

[@MrJintensive]

I remember when pops bought me a pair of hiking boots in 6th grade for a school camping trip in 1988 and I was thinking of that this week bcz he passed at 92 on 11/28/2020

[@angeladay1534]

So, very sorry about your loss. Thanks for sharing your precious and special memories with this channel. God Bless you and your family. 😢📖🙏🏽💖

[@cdfreester]

Back in the early days of Shakey's Pizza, they used the locations of Kinney Shoe stores to determine where they would build their restaurants.

[@88KeysIdaho]

I read that on Wikipedia, and found it to be true, at least in Boise, Idaho. There were Shakey's near each of the 2 Kinney Shoes stores, here.

[@shibolinemress8913]

I miss Kinney Shoes at the mall. It was a staple for so many years! 😢

[@contrabandjoe7974]

I was born in the mid 1960's . I can remember starting in the very late 60's and early 1970's ALWAYS buying our shoes at a real shoe store. Kinney's, Buster Brown, Florsheim, JC Penny's, Brown Shoes.. These stores always had a row of chairs, with staff wearing ties, sporting "shoe horns" , placing my foot on the cold metal fitting device with the slide that tickled my feet, and staff bringing out boxes of shoes to get the right fit. I can remember the smell of the leather in those stores. It was a right of passage late each summer prior to starting school. Funny how you take for granted simple things like this and then miss them when they are gone. Now you walk into Wal-Mart-Shoe Carnival-Sam's etc and wait on yourself.... sigh

[@Cocollyt]

That was when you could make a living doing retail work. Too bad it’s not like that anymore.

[@adamandrews8534]

Shopped there all the time in mid-70s!

[@hinspect]

I'm 60 now but I remember some guy trying to date my oldest sister that worked at Kinney when I was about 8 or 9. He brought me a whole cardboard box of Kinney Balloons! I was excited but I don't think my sister was...

[@debbiesittard7979]

LOL

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

😁

[@angeladay1534]

Too cute! 🎈🎈🎈🎈😆

[@matrox]

Who here remembers when the protocol for buying shoes was...you walked in sat down and a salesman would walk up and assist you, first he would have you take off your shoes and you would put your foot into this fancy measuring device, then he would go somewhere in some dark back room then appear with your shoes to try on?😁

[@angeladay1534]

😆💯📏

[@matrox]

😫😥I miss you Kinney!😞😢😭

[@kellierichardson7223]

The picture at 3:08 is in my town. We grew up in there and I went through several of the NBA shoes in various colors. The building is still there but is now an appliance store. Great memories.

[@debbiesittard7979]

Oh my Kinney’s Shoes! Who remembers Red Goose shoes? Remember the golden egg that you would get with a surprise inside? Now this was back in the early to mid 60’s for those not old enough to remember Red Goose. I sure miss those days. Anyone have a time travel machine? I wanna go back!

[@angeladay1534]

I remember the commercials. Never been to Red Goose shoes.

[@debbiesittard7979]

@@angeladay1534 it was a treat for sure. Been 53 yrs since I was in their store. Not sure what year they closed.

[@lesphilaja5722]

My 1st job when I turned 16 was a shoe salesman for Kinney. Our next door neighbor was a window designer for them and he got me hired. Pay was $1.10 an hour plus 10% commission on accessories like purses. nylons, polish, foot sprays, etc. Kinney had a policy called, NOBODY WALKS, which meant that if you couldn't sell a customer something then you had to pass the customer on to another salesperson. Pay was in cash. Week before Easter, my take home pay was a little over $100. I thought Iwas rich!

[@michael9052]

So that explains why in addition to shoes, we bought several pairs of socks and pantyhose every time we bought shoes.

[@rbsmith3365]

Yep..... That’s a lot for 16 years old.

[@Kenna198]

At $1.10 an hour that was pretty good

[@rbsmith3365]

@@Kenna198 Well.... My first minimum wage job was 3.15 an hour and living in Washington DC that, I and others couldn’t buy anything in fine stores but Woolworth’s. Yeah it stinks!

[@Kenna198]

@@rbsmith3365 yes I remember working for minimum wage & felt so poor but we all have to start somewhere, now I’m retired, older but still enjoying life.

[@kenmcleod8618]

Wow, I definitely remember those👍