1960’s – Brown Shoe Company Ground Breaking

Here, the Brown Shoe Company christens its new facility. Among the citizens and dignitaries present that day are, from left to right, James A. “Jug” Wallace, P.K. Holmes Jr., Arkansas governor Dale Bumpers, an unidentified Brown Shoe Company official, John Minor, county judge Reuben “Buzz” Harper, and Rep. Tom Collier. (Courtesy of Jane Parnell.)