 The company was liquidated in 1999, though some of the chains it operated continued under different owners.The company began on October 28, 1922, when brothers Sam, Harry, Mark, Irving, and Simon Edison—most of whom had previous experience in the shoe business working for others—opened their first shoe store, Chandler's, in Atlanta, Georgia.The store was a success and the brothers opened up a second shoe store, called Baker's, the next year.