Apparently, over 45 years in the shoe repair business wasn't enough for Bob Wulf. He closed his shop in Worthington, Minn., last year and headed north to Bemidji, where the lakes and ...

The shoe repair trade has shrunk dramatically. Longtime craftsmen note that their number has been halved in the past couple of decades, even as Greater Sacramento has added 600,000 sets of feet. The ...

RAPID CITY - In an era of disposable consumer goods, most people buy new shoes rather than getting the old ones repaired. But Bob's Shoe Repair in downtown Rapid City does a brisk business stitching, ...

Late last week, Sung Kim sat on a low chair and used a box cutter to deftly trim a leather insole he had previously glued to a woman's rope sandal. Satisfied with the job, he put the sandal and its ...