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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...