For me, there is always something fun and interesting about plowing through a volume of the city directories that were published for this region from the 1860s until the early 1980s. For this column, ...

As products have gotten less expensive and more disposable, many traditional repair industries have withered away. Against all odds, shoe repair has retained a tenuous foothold. More than 50 ...

When Reginald Cousin started to do shoe repair in 1961 as an 18-year-old graduate of Howard High School - where he learned the trade in vocational class - downtown Chattanooga had about a dozen ...

When Reginald Cousin started to do shoe repair in 1961 as an 18-year-old graduate of Howard High School - where he learned the trade in vocational class - downtown Chattanooga had about a dozen ...

Alexandria Shoe Repair, 124 N. Fayette St., Alexandria; 703-549-8133. The oldest continually operating shoe repair in Virginia opened in 1896 and still draws them in with reasonable prices, ...

READING, Pa. - For 75 years, Dan Addesso Shoe Service has been operating out of a quaint shop on Spring Street in Reading. Nowadays, while most worn out shoes get the boot, Addesso will help "heel" ...

WILLMAR - When Jim Ackerman retires and closes the doors of Schiro's Shoe Repair on Thursday, it will signal the end of a business that first opened in 1922. Ackerman will have an open house with ...