Our fall 2024 window display featured footwear from years gone by, viewable by visitors to the Park at Bothell Landing through the windows of the Hannan House.

Many types of shoes with buttons were fastened with a button hook. Shoes could be purchased locally or by mail order, from the Sears & Roebuck catalog.

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George Linz operated his shoe repair shop in the southeast corner of the Reder Building, a structure at the southwest corner of Bothell’s Main Street and Second Avenue.

The Reder Building. In 1926, Samuel R. Reder built a clothing store and theater for his wife, Anna. Cliff Evans operated the Bothell Theater, showing motion pictures, in the basement. The traditional California Mission-style storefront was adapted to the Northwest by the use of wood. On the lower level of this building, entered from 2nd Avenue (now 102nd), was the office of Dr. Don Anderson. At the back of the building on far left was the small shoe repair shop operated by George Linz (whose metal boot sign is now in the Bothell Museum). Closer to the river was a men’s tailor shop operated by Nicky Schwartz. Behind the tailor shop was Joe Smith’s butcher shop. In 1941, Charles Walters bought the building. He remodeled the main floor and half of the basement so that Art and Alice Kimball could open Kimball’s Department Store. The green arrow in the right-hand photo points to Linz’s boot sign.