red goose

 

As a child did you wear Red Goose shoes?  I think I had Buster Browns.  I remember going to the shoe store and sticking my feet in the machine that showed whether the shoes fit via Xrays or something.  The Red Goose Shoe Company  began selling shoes to in 1869. The company's name was originally Gieseke-D'Oench-Hayes, after its founders, but when the company became advertising conscious in the early 1900s, they changed the name. Gieseke is German slang for "goose" so the goose image came naturally. The red color came later when, during the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, some stock boys painted the goose on the cartons red.    Red Goose Shoes in Thibodaux opened in 1900 in a building was built in 1896.  Red Goose Shoes closed down in 1976 and the Red Goose Saloon opened in 1979 but stayed with the Red Goose name.  The Red Goose Shoes sign out front still glows.

 

Red Goose Saloon

205 Phillips Street

Thibodaux, Louisiana