Thursday, July 18, 2019
Suffering from post-season 3 Stranger Things withdrawal? Did Starcourt Mall leave you feeling nostalgic for your childhood? University of 蓝莓视频's Special Collections & Archives can help!
has done some digging into a few of the mall's 80s-era stores that no longer exist, including Kaufman Shoes. They tie the store to Kaufman Footwear, a Canadian company based in Kitchener until declaring bankruptcy in 2000.
You can learn more about Kaufman Footwear and the founding family by visiting Special Collections & Archives. The Kaufman Footwear fonds include catalogues, documentation of formulae and compounds, corespondence, ephemera, photographs, sound recordings and more.
The archives include fonds relating many other local businesses, including , and .
A.R. Kaufman (standing) turns over the president's chair to his son, William. From the .
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