Question: In which city did Paul Van Doren found a shoe company?

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Carl Clinton Van Doren: Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) was an American critic and biographer.  He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren.

Paul Van Doren: Paul Van Doren is the founder of Vans, a shoe company in the United States.

You've Got to Be Smart: You've Got to Be Smart (alternatively titled: The Smart Ones) is a 1967 low-budgeted drama film.  The movie was released in few theaters in 1967.  The film starred Tom Stern, Roger Perry, Gloria Castillo, and Mamie Van Doren.  The movie was one of the few drama films that Van Doren made during the decade of the 1960s.  Van Doren had risen to fame in the early 1950s, but by the 1960s her career had faltered.

Girls Town: Girls Town is a 1959 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starring Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé and Ray Anthony.  Paul Anka also appears in his first acting role.  Van Doren stars as a juvenile delinquent who is sent to a girls school run by nuns, where she finds herself unable to help her sister.  The film capitalizes on the 1950s rebellious teen exploitation films, with catfights, car races, music from Anka and The Platters, and sexy outfits.

Mamie Van Doren: Mamie Van Doren (born Joan Lucille Olander; February 6, 1931) is an American actress, model, singer and sex symbol who is known for being one of the first actresses to recreate the look of Marilyn Monroe.  Van Doren is perhaps best remembered for the rock 'n' roll, juvenile delinquency, exploitation movie "Untamed Youth" (1957), and other films of this calibre.

Parachute Murder: The Parachute murder is a name the Belgian media gave the 2010 Belgian love triangle skydiving murder trial.  The defendant, elementary school teacher and amateur skydiver Els 'Babs' Clottemans, was found guilty of murder by sabotaging the parachutes of another woman, fellow skydiver Els Van Doren, because Van Doren was a rival for the love of Marcel Somers, also a skydiver.  The skydive in which Van Doren died occurred on November 18, 2006.  Van Doren, who was a 38 years old married mother of two and a very experienced skydiver, died when both her primary and reserve parachutes failed to deploy.  The dive was captured by a video camera mounted on Van Doren's helmet.  Van Doren dropped from a height of over 2 mi landing in a garden in the town of Opglabbeek.  Police later established that the cords of the parachute had been cut.

Florsheim Shoe Company Building: The Florsheim Shoe Company Building is a former factory for the Florsheim Shoe Company and a Chicago Landmark in the Avondale neighborhood.  The building was built between 1924 and 1926 when the Florsheim Shoe Company had "2,500 employees, 71 retail outlets, 9,000 dealers and a network of regional wholesale distributors".  The architect of the building was Alfred Alschuler who designed numerous Chicago Landmarks and NRHP designated buildings.  The building was a factory for Florsheim until 1986, when it became the warehouse for a records management.  The building, located at on the 3900 block of West Belmont Avenue is now luxury lofts.  The Commission on Chicago Landmarks designated the building a Chicago Landmark on March 29, 2006.

Vans: Vans is an American manufacturer of skateboarding shoes, based in Costa Mesa, California, owned by VF Corporation.  The company also produces apparel and other products such as T-shirts, hoodies, socks, hats, and backpacks.  As of August 2013, the brand is also active in other actions sports industry and sponsors surf, snowboarding, BMX, and motocross teams.  Since 1996, the company has also been the primary sponsor of the annual Vans Warped Tour traveling rock festival.

Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory: Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory, also known as the International Hat Company Warehouse, is a historic building location at 1201 Russell Boulevard in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.  Built in 1904, by renowned architect Albert B. Groves, the building was originally a factory for the Brown Shoe Company, based in St. Louis.  In 1954, the factory was subsequently converted into a warehouse by the International Hat Company.  The site has been recognized as a testament to Grove's architectural expertise in the principles of factory design, namely technical advances in layout planning, operational efficiency, and employee safety.  Additionally, the factory epitomizes the early 20th century cultural transformation and socio-industrial development of St. Louis into a manufacturing powerhouse.  In particular, the Brown Shoe Company is recognized as a principal player in challenging the 19th century dominance of the New England shoe industry.  This significantly contributed to the early 20th century sobriquet of St. Louis as the city of "shoes, booze, and blues."  The Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take factory is considered to be among the pioneering industrial facilities of this historic transformation.

Fore Shoe Company Building: Fore Shoe Company Building, also known as the Washington Shoe Company Building and Kane Dunham & Kraus Shoe Company Building, is a historic shoe factory building located at Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.  The original section was built in 1925, and is a two-story, reinforced concrete and wood beam structure sheathed in brick.  A two- and three-story brick addition was built in 1927, and is of steel frame construction.  The building features a prominent brick smoke stack and measures approximately 58,000 square feet of floor space.  The factory closed in 1971.

Supporting paragraphs: Paul Van Doren Vans
Answer: Costa Mesa