WALDOBORO, Maine — With more Americans planting their feet in throwaway shoes and athletic footwear, the neighborhood shoe repair shop might seem like a relic from the past and a candidate for ...
To walk into Al's Shoe Service at the Mount Prospect Metra station is to step back in time. The walls remind customers and visitors of the rich history of a business that began when Al DeAngelo opened ...
Megan Boisvert, the fifth generation to run the shop, noted that the store’s business used to be 70% retail and 30% repairs.
The hand-scrawled sign with a misspelled word taped to the door sums up the future of Joseph's Shoe Repair, a downtown Bloomington business that hasn't much changed since James Joseph set up shop ...
It's all here in this fourth-generation shop — unionization, assembly lines, automation, offshoring, corporate skulduggery, real estate booms — writ small.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday to Friday, David Yushubayev sits in a chair at Markell’s Shoe Repair with the door open, waiting for customers to pick up the shoes they left behind in March. Shoes in ...
READING, Pa. - For 75 years, Dan Addesso Shoe Service has been operating out of a quaint shop on Spring Street in Reading. Nowadays, while most worn out shoes get the boot, Addesso will help "heel" ...
Repairing shoes has been a perfect fit for Carl Rogers for the better part of 75 years. The Spartanburg native, who celebrates his 90th birthday on Tuesday, had only a fifth-grade education when he ...
In the 1930s, there were 100,000 members of the Shoe Service Institute of America. That number has d
Jim McFarland cut his teeth on cobbling and has the chewed-on shoe leather to prove it. "It's in my family," said McFarland, who owns McFarland's Shoes and Repair in Lakeland, Fla., and is a member of ...
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