Store No. 31, as the Alhambra branch is known, is Vans’ oldest and longest-operating store in Southern California, according to Catherine Acosta, the company’s archivist and historian.

A user is calling out Vans after seeing a pile of destroyed shoes outside of one of its stores—though there may be more to the story than it initially seems. In a video with over 1.9 million ...

Vans has previously been criticized for throwing out sneakers. A YouTube video posted in 2015, showed two trash cans filled with new shoes that were cut up and left outside a Philadelphia store.

The siblings opened their first Vans shoe store at 704 E. Broadway in Anaheim on March 16, 1966. The company says their idea was to manufacture shoes on-site and sell them directly to the public.