For jobs that involve a lot of walking, it's easy to tear through shoe soles. Tire treads, on the other hand, can take a lot of punishment. As Hackaday points out, you can take remove the tread from ...

ELK CITY, Okla. (KFOR) — The old soles wander in on tired feet. “It just depends on how long and hard you wear your boots,” says Ray Eeds. He’s has seen them in all sizes, and in pretty bad shape.

BUFFALO, NY -- Everywhere we go, they go with us. In many cases, they're one of the biggest reasons we get where we're going and yet, when they fall apart, shoes are often discarded and replaced. One ...

The whirr of sewing machines and light mist of the steam cleaner filled Ron Mancuso’s nearly 50-year-old shoe repair shop ...

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 ...

It’s a familiar tale. Your best hiking boots have started to show signs of wear but you’re not ready to say goodbye. They’ve been with you through thick bog and thin cloud; climbed the highest ...

It wasn’t that long ago that the shoe repair business in Buffalo was on rocky ground. Then, out of the blue came Brian Gavigan who was looking for a career change. Gavigan began apprenticing with a ...