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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
M54-2
Date(s)
- 1936-10-22 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Exterior view of Spellman's Buster Brown Shoe Store. Storefront with backlit metal art deco lettering, neon sign, recessed entrance with plate glass display windows. 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. (filed with Argentum) (Tacoma Times 3/7/1939, pg. 7)
Shoe stores--Tacoma; Window displays--Tacoma--1930-1940; Signs (Notices); Spellman's Buster Brown Shoe Store (Tacoma);