Thom McAn Shoes – What Happened?

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[DallasBiff]

Ward Melville, in collaboration with J. Franklin McElwain, a shoe manufacturer from New Hampshire, founded the Thom McAn brand. The name drew inspiration from Scottish golfer Thomas McCann. The inaugural retail store opened its doors in New York in 1922, offering a selection of uncomplicated styles at a fixed, affordable price. Within five years, the brand expanded to 300 stores, and by 1939, it had a staggering 650 stores.

[ought-six]

“But why won’t you answer my question as to what suddenly made American companies begin to have financial issues beginning in the 60s, are you afraid to answer it or do you just not know, bright guy?”

Good grief, kid. Companies ALWAYS run the risk of financial issues. They can invest heavily in a product that sucks; or the timing of a product’s release is not favorable; or litigation can begin to take its toll; or government regulation can hamstring development. There is no one thing that can be said to have caused financial issues across the board.

[Blueway]

I’m a little older than you so I remember Buster Brown shoes.
Do you remember Poll Parrot shoes?
Also, my husband used to wear “Threads” wingtips when we were dating back in the late ‘50s.
I think the actual name was Threadneedle shoes.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sex (er, six) toed problem?

Would Laz kick it?

[Jim Noble]

or at Buster Brown

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie!

[ought-six]

I wore Florsheim wingtips back in the 1960s.

[xoxox]

Still don't understand "what happened" but it's a water under the bridge now anyhoo.

Someone always playing
corporation games
who cares they're always changing
corporation names...

[surrey]

My mother would only buy Stride Rite. When I had kids I followed suit.

[Clemenza]

You know you are old when your mom took you to Buster Brown to get shoes.

[Blueway]

We lived near Cape Girardeau MO in the early
80s when the Florsheim factory there closed.
They used to have annual men’s wear and shoe sales there.
Business men would come to town from all over for the sale.

[ought-six]

Florsheim made some good shoes.

[SuperLuminal]

One of the big things, when you were 6, was going to the shoe store and getting your feet x-rayed...

We kids, in my neighborhood, had one located very near our elementary school... Bunch of us would frequently sneak into the store, when walking to or from school, and play with the machine to see who had the biggest feet or funniest shaped toes...

For 6 & 7 year old kids, that and hopping onto the sides of slow-moving coal trains was among our favorite after school fun...

[Mears]

My husband worked for them…..my kids wore them ,

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[Robert DeLong]

It's a two-street, except the taxpayer is the one who is really taking the lion's share of the risk. That was the old days that you are talking about, which is a major reason you fail to see the realities in today's world. We now have a faux form of capitalism that took over decades ago. Problem is you didn't see it coming, and you still don't see it.

No wonder you sound like someone who lacks knowledge, because you actually do lack knowledge, old fart.

[ought-six]

“That was the old days that you are talking about...”

That was the 1960s, kid; which was how you premised your comment in your post #88. You said: “...beginning in the 60s.”

“No wonder you sound like someone who lacks knowledge, because you actually do lack knowledge, old fart.”

Nice try, kid. You can’t even follow your own argument. Pretty pathetic.

[Robert DeLong]

we are 60 years beyond that point old fart. But it proves my point that you think this nation is the same as it was in the 60s.

Not even close. Go back to sleep old fart.

But you still haven't even attempted to answer my question. I'll consider that means you do not know the answer.

[ought-six]

Kid, you are so out of your league.

YOU premised your argument as having begun in the 60s (and I assumed you meant the 1960s, and not the 1860s, or 1760s, or...you get it, kid).

So, you see, kid; you said companies’ financial problems began in the 1960s. Thus, necessarily, you are saying that what began in the 1960s continues to this day. And, that would be correct: Conditions that caused financial issues in the 1960s are still present today. But they are not the only issues today, just as they were not the only issues back in the 1960s. OR, you are saying that the conditions that were present in the 1960s are no longer present today. Which is it, kid?

“But you still haven’t even attempted to answer my question. I’ll consider that means you do not know the answer.”

I ANSWERED it, you moron; but you are too dim to see it.

[dennisw]

My favorite “shoes” are Asics Nimbus. I have 6 pairs. I feel like I am walking on air. I have 3 pair of Asics Cumulus which are also very good. Cumulus are 15% less cushiony than Nimbus and always less expensive.

I never go to the shoe store. I know my size and order on-line. Asics are accurate fit to my size, for me at least.

[zzeeman]

I remember getting Thom McAnn shoes….

[DCPatriot]

Thom McAn was just one of several national chain stores of Melville Shoe Company out of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Up Against the Wall, Fox Moor and even Vanguard were subsidiaries of Melville mall store outlets back in the mid 70's.

Today, they are tantamount to the Conestoga Wagon when faced with the reality of the invention of the internal combustion engine.

[Robert DeLong]

Kid, you are so out of your league.

Well, I am definitely not in your league, of the following from behind believing you still live in the days of your youth, which is why you do not see the realities at all. I hope you lead a very long life, for that is the only way you will accept what I am saying. When you see that all I am raising the alarms about are real, not some hysterical conspiracy theories that were not possible but now are, and you are ignoring the realities, because you have tunnel vision that prevents you from seeing the world as it now is, instead of the world you remember & believe still exists.

YOU premised your argument as having begun in the 60s (and I assumed you meant the 1960s, and not the 1860s, or 1760s, or...you get it, kid).

Quit trying to be cute, because I never lived in the 60s of any century other than the 20th. But that is what I mean you are stuck in days gone by believing that the days of now are the same as those you remember as if they were yesterday Perhaps that is why you are so far removed from reality & like Biden you try to play games because you think you are so clever to the point you believe you are cute too.

I ANSWERED it, you moron; but you are too dim to see it.

No you have not. I have seen nothing from you telling how our factories started being unable to compete.

Perhaps you answered someone else, and believe you answered my question. Or perhaps you think your obfuscation talk was answering my question, but it was just reinforcing your outdated view of what you see business as being.

You remind me of Dr. Philip Barbay (Paxton Whitehead), dean of the business school, telling Rodney Dangerfield about running a business in the movie Back To School. Totally out-of-touch with reality.