Mark Benson gripped the tops of a pair of leopard print heels, black shoe polish stains under his fingernails. He raised a gnarled heel below the frames of his oversized glasses, tilting it back and ...
The cobbler business is better than ever but the skills of shoe repair experts look down-at-the-heel
The cobbler is 54, young in a business that has grown old. His only child, a son, has already told him he won’t be taking over the family business when his father retires. It’s an honorable profession ...
How did this business get started? Ramon Reyes, 45, is repairing soles one shoe at a time at Da Boot Shop, a full-service shoe and boot repair shop he founded in Fayetteville in 1996. “We are a family ...
Trade Names After dipping a toe in shoe-repairs in the 1930s, five generations of Cleggs have stayed in the trade, writes Rose… Trade NamesAfter dipping a toe in shoe-repairs in the 1930s, five ...
One after another, they come. A parade of high heels and business lace-ups. Steel toes, runners and Birkenstocks. They line the shelves of Arthur Poitras’ workshop. In need of a polish. New soles. A ...
Almost 50 years ago, Dave Page — then a professor of American history at the University of Washington and Western Washington University — was bouldering with his girlfriend on a beach in California.
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