NORFOLK, Va. - With the majority of the population working from home, suits, ties and fancy dress shoes are put away in the closet. That means shoe repair businesses are slipping. "This is ...

In the Sewickley Shoe Repair on Beaver St., Mario Ulizzi toils among rows of worn shoes and boots. The cobbler meticulously works various leathers, sometimes for hours, doing the work by hand. Ulizzi ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Eddie Lemay is the last shoe repairman left in our area. He fixes the soles of shoes, and he can fix belts and purses. He does it all. “I am a shoe repairman and some ...

Longtime and well-known Medford business owner of Rocco's Shoe Repair, Christos Karavitis, has passed away. Karavitis, who died suddenly on Sept. 2 at 75 years old, owned and operated the shoe repair ...

Local shoemaker Tony Macchiaroli is closing his business after 64 years. At almost 18 years old, Macchiaroli moved to Pittsburgh from Italy with $0.35 in his pocket. “It was in 1953,” said Macchiaroli ...

Felipe Torres, owner of the Big Shoe Repair Store in Bakersfield, says he doesn't know yet if he'll have to close the shop while repairs are made or how long that might take. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO ...

MACON, Ga. — This July, West End Shoe Repair owner Mallary McClendon will celebrate over 30 years of cobbling in Macon. In the decades after buying the business from his mentor, the Macon native ...

There's only one shoe repair shop still open in Chattanooga, and Michael Scallia is as busy as a one-armed paper hanger. Mr. Scallia, who works long hours at Buddy's Shoe Repair on Hixson Pike, said ...

For nearly a century, Violi Shoes was located at 118 E. Mishawaka Ave., around the corner from what was Merrill Pharmacy and near the Main Street intersection. Owner Brien Hall purchased the local ...

RACINE — For 50 years, Dave Franks has put his heart and soul into saving “soles” in Racine — shoe soles that is. But all good things come to an end. On Aug. 8, Franks and his wife Debbie will head ...

When I was growing up, my parents were on a first-name basis with the owner of the local shoe-repair shop. Let's face it, when you have seven kids, shoes kind of need to last awhile. My folks weren't ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASTORIA, Queens (PIX11) — A beloved shoe ...