Photo by Janelle Patterson Bill, right, and Cecil Gossett, left, go over how to attach a new strap on a Birkenstock sandal in Cobbler John’s Shoe Repair in Marietta. MARIETTA — With machines, tools, ...

Fifty years an Affton cobbler, John's Shoe Repair disappears Working in his shop on the last day before his shoe repair machines and tools were taken away, Giovanni LoCascio, 87, looks out for the ...

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Although the shoeshine machines still were whirring Saturday morning in the back room of Central Shoe and Boot Repair, the sanders, sole trimmers, heel finishers, nailers and other repair machines ...

Shoe repair is one of those areas that feels likes the domain of shoe specialists and cobblers only. And, to be fair, that is often still the case. If your shoes looks like they're worse for wear, ...

Traditional shoe repair machines cannot pull off the heels to repair them. After Mr. Ballard's father died in 1953, an uncle from Clay County ran the family's repair shop for a while. Mr. Ballard ...

It is estimated that something like 300 million pairs of shoes are thrown out every year in this country. Some were junk to begin with, some get tossed because they’re just plain worn out or don’t fit ...

To many young people today, a cobbler is something you have for dessert, says Lee Vaccaro. And therein lies the problem. "Not only are fewer people becoming cobblers," he says, "but younger people don ...

MARION — Growing up, Rich Foens remembers 13 shoe repair shops within three square blocks of each other in downtown Davenport. His parents' shop, where he learned his trade, was one of them. Now, 71 ...

When Reginald Cousin started to do shoe repair in 1961 as an 18-year-old graduate of Howard High School - where he learned the trade in vocational class - downtown Chattanooga had about a dozen ...