His movements are swift, expert. The bit of blood on the back of his hand is from an earlier scrape. For more than three decades, Picard has stitched and glued, hammered and reheeled tens of thousands ...

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 ...

A Toronto cobbler who has been repairing shoes for more than 20 years in Dufferin Mall says he thought he was going to lose ...

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 ...

Hong Kong cobbler Wong Yun-keung has been repairing shoes in the city for more than 25 years – using the very same machine he started out with. The 52-year-old tradesman, who works with his wife Chan ...

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 ...

The blacksmith is long gone, of course, so is the tree, but Sam the shoe repairman is still here as a reminder of those self-made men who worked with their hands and whose honesty, integrity, and hard ...

If Carrie Bradshaw’s stilettos snapped off while shopping on the shoreline, or if Dorothy lost a few rubies from her Ruby Slippers while dancing down the yellow line of Boston Post Road, there are ...