BEST SHOE STORE IN THE 90s. Vol. 13th Pair is FREE

[oh you mad]

The store had a damb basketball court inside, they gave you popcorn while you waited for your sneakers and this is where it all started for me back in late 1996 when the store first opened at my local mall.

No store will ever come close

RIP

 

[trilluminated]

i was trying to remember the name of this store the other day but for the life of me i couldn't. 

 

[supermanblue79]

This was THE basketball spot for my area. They had the full court outside, and the 1/4 court inside...We would head straight there after school and stay until dark.
They kept shoes in stock for years until they finally sold them.
Loved this place until I worked there in college. Even though I hated working there, I miss seeing the spotlight in the air for their midnight madness sales in the summer.

 

[jd214]

I still remember going there as a kid.

There was one close to my crib, About 5-10 minutes away .

Now it's a Golf Galaxy store.

My pops still has a big *** Dallas Cowboys jacket he bought from there and I also have the last thing I bought from there, A Nike Basketball. |I

They had mad sales when they were closing.

 

[lil black jean jacket]

the 1998 commercial

 

[lobotomybeats]

I remember going to the one in the Caesars Palace Forum Shops. I wasn't old enough to gamble so my brother and I would go there while my parents gambled. I remember they had one of Shaq's actual shoes in a glass case.

 

[Case]

Just for feet was a legendary store..There were 3 within' 25 minutes of my house back in the day..

We used to have a store called Imperial Sports around here that was pretty good too..Had an insane amount of Ewings on their shelves..Fila too..

Any of yall remember way back in the mid to late 80's when Finishline used to have alot of their shoes in rows like how Famous Footwear has theirs?..I remember going in there and having my dad pull different sizes of Military and Fire Red 4's right off the shelves and trying them on..FYI, I went with the Military's..lol

Remember when Foot Locker has the slanted wood panneling on the walls?..And they had those round shoe racks in the middle of the floor w/women's and kids shoes on them?

 

[smangalang]

Sadtimes were had in many Just For Feet stores.

 

[young718chris]

Damn, I forgot all about this store. Thanks for the nostalgia!

 

[k town trash]

why did this place close down?

 

[stillin729]

seems like this place came and went so quickly

 

[stillin729]

Bankruptcy and acquisition

In November 1999, Just For Feet filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and in February 2000, the company was forced into Chapter 7. Footstar, Inc., at that time the parent company of Footaction USA, purchased the Just For Feet name and the leases of over 70 of its stores in February 2000.[1]. Those stores that remained opened continued to do business under the Just For Feet name until Footstar itself filed for Chapter 7 protection in 2003. By 2004, the last of the Just For Feet stores closed.
According to The Wall Street Journal (4/23/07): 'Just for Feet collapsed in 1999 amid an accounting fraud. Three former executives pleaded guilty to crimes related to a scheme to overstate earnings by $8 million between 1996 and 1998. The bankruptcy judge appointed a trustee to recover money for the company's creditors. The estate of Harold Ruttenberg, Just for Feet's founder and former chief executive, agreed in August 2006 to pay $15 million along with son Don-Allen Ruttenberg to settle the trustee lawsuit. Unfortunately for the estate, six months later, a Delaware Court in the case of North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation Inc. against three directors of the Delaware corporation, Clearwire Holdings Inc., ruled that creditors and trustees of Delaware corporations that are insolvent or in the so-called "zone of insolvency", like Just for Feet, Inc. was, have no right to assert direct claims for breach of fiduciary duty against its directors.
The elder Mr. Ruttenberg died in 2005 at 63. His son pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was sentenced to a 20-month prison term. Just for Feet's auditor, Deloitte & Touche agreed to pay $24 million, and in April 2007 five former outside directors agreed to pay $41.5 million - one of only 13 cases in the past 25 years where outside directors of public companies have made out-of-pocket payments and one of the largest ever settlements. (Enron Corporation's 10 directors paid only $13 million). In all the trustees recovered roughly $80 million for the company's creditors.
Today, the company's former corporate headquarters is occupied by Jack Henry & Associates.

 

[Bert.]

place sounds awesome, i dont think ive ever seen one

 

[imvictor]

place sounds awesome, i dont think ive never seen one

This.

 

[bigtrg insd]

I think about this store all of the time, glad i'm not the only one.

I don't remember getting shoes there, but I remember getting some New Era caps. Back when they were all wool and were part of the "Diamond Collection" instead of today's "Authentic" collection. All of the stuff back then was better than what is offered today, whether it is sneakers, hats, jerseys, etc.

The basketball court was a great idea that was really fun back then. I would love to see a store have something like that today, but i'm sure most retailers consider that to be too much of a liability. All it takes is a foolish kid to injure himself and have a parent who thinks they can sue over anything, then there is a giant can of worms.

 

[ihatemondayz]

very dope store...when i was younger i always wanted to go here to get my shoes instead of footlocker, footaction, etc.

 

[melofan15]

completely forgot about this place.
Think I only went in there once and didn't even get to use the court because I was too young

 

[oh you mad]

I think about this store all of the time, glad i'm not the only one.

I don't remember getting shoes there, but I remember getting some New Era caps. Back when they were all wool and were part of the "Diamond Collection" instead of today's "Authentic" collection. All of the stuff back then was better than what is offered today, whether it is sneakers, hats, jerseys, etc.

The basketball court was a great idea that was really fun back then. I would love to see a store have something like that today, but i'm sure most retailers consider that to be too much of a liability. All it takes is a foolish kid to injure himself and have a parent who thinks they can sue over anything, then there is a giant can of worms.

QFT |I

 

[maxswoosh713]

I knew right away when I read the title. Just for feet was soo dope, but my pops rarely took us there to buy kicks

 

[cincoseisdos]

Ontario Mills

 

[jd214]

very dope store...when i was younger i always wanted to go here to get my shoes instead of footlocker, footaction, etc.

Same here,

That's the only place I bought shoes and other sports gear as a kid, Didn't start going to Champs, Foot Locker, Foot Action, or other shoe places til they closed Just For Feet.

I still remember hooping in their B-Ball court (I was garbage, Just throwing the ball around, Luckily it was caged ), They had the Popcorn and Soda Machines by the court and then the restrooms.

Good times and memories. |I

 

[jhustle23]

I remember they opened one up at the Block of Orange and closed down shortly after.
My first time ditching high school was spent playing hoops on that half court

 

[mints]

I don't think I ever made it to the 13th pair. It's a shame that there's not much competition any more amongst the big chains since 4 of them are all owned by the same company.

 

[cubinican1]

Got my first pair of nikes from there. The memories lol

 

[dunksrnice]

 At the first vid of the kids getting shoes thrown at.