Thom McAn was founded in New York in 1922 as a discount family shoe store. After being acquired by Melville Corporation in 1952, the company became one of the largest footwear retailers in the country, operating a whopping 1,400 stores. In the mid-’80s, its parent company started phasing out its footwear factories and the last Thom McAn closed in 1996.
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