Kinney Shoes' Architectural Afterlife

Documenting the iconic retailer's physical footprint, long after its demise

Kinney Shoes was a major footwear retailer in the 20th century. Its iconic modern stores, like the one in the video preview below, were constructed by the hundreds in the 1960s. Kinney made it into the 1990s before giving up the ghost, though Foot Locker is a surviving division of the same parent company.

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