[3] The shoe concern was started by George Romanta Kinney whose father ran a general store in rural Candor, New York.

[4] The business chain numbered 362 stores at the conclusion of 1929, with 44 of these opening in the final year of the decade.

[9] The firm was renamed the Kinney Shoe Corporation and continued as a fully owned subsidiary of Woolworth.

[10] It retained its own eleven member board of directors and an existing panel of corporate officers.

The company continued operating throughout the 1960s and 1970s with divisions named Stylco (1967), Susie Casuals (1968), and Foot Locker (1974).