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 ...

DECATUR, AL (WAFF) - A shoe repairman in Decatur says he received a Christmas surprise after thieves stole valuable equipment from his shop, Decatur Shoe Repair, on Sunday. Two complete strangers ...

After six decades in business, the owner of Homewood Shoe Hospital is retiring. And the store at 2900 Central Ave., with roots going back 61 years, is on the market. In an announcement on social media ...

Rob Zaza, at 30 years old, is trying to make a go of it as a cobbler. Youth and shoe repair are not usually paired together. Shoe repair shops are closing down, not getting new blood. Shoe repair is ...

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 ...

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, ...

DULUTH, Minn.—For the first time in decades, the number of shoe repair shops in Duluth has increased. Now there are two. National observers say shoe repair—long a declining industry—has seen a ...

To many young people today, a cobbler is something you have for dessert, says Lee Vaccaro. And therein lies the problem. "Not only are fewer people becoming cobblers," he says, "but younger people don ...

The grown-up customers walk in clutching their grown-up wallets and purses, wearing their grown-up suits and work uniforms, talking their grown-up talk about the kids and the job. They leave pouting, ...

When Adrian Head bought Helms Shoe & Luggage Repair in Washington Square on Far Hills Avenue in 2010, he promised the Helm family that the shop would keep its name. “I understood the idea of legacy, ...

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, ...