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Title
A21733-3
Date(s)
- 1946-03-23 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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This photograph of Spellman's Buster Brown Shoe Store, at 1122 Broadway, was taken in March 1946. The first Buster Brown Shoe Store opened in Tacoma in 1915. William and J. B. Spellman bought the Tacoma store in 1933. They were joined by a third brother, J. A. Spellman in 1934. The brothers eventually owned stores in Bellingham, Bremerton, Vancouver Washington, and Portland Oregon. Spellman's Shoe Store went out of business in the late 1960s.
Shoe stores--Tacoma; Window displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Signs (Notices); Spellman's Buster Brown Shoe Store (Tacoma);