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 ...

Louie Domerese is a master cobbler who wants his customers to see a clean, modern shop when they walk in. Save the clutter, he says, for the back of the shop -- his workshop where he performs his ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charlie Atkinson has been keeping a family tradition alive at his shoe repair shop in Jacksonville Beach, even though the shoe repair trade is rapidly disappearing. The late Charlie Atkinson Sr.

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, ...

When Pete Chafos approached the then-new Apache Mall in 1971 about opening a second location of his Boston Shoe Repair shop, he was surprised by how welcoming the management was. “The mall was really ...

The hand-scrawled sign with a misspelled word taped to the door sums up the future of Joseph's Shoe Repair, a downtown Bloomington business that hasn't much changed since James Joseph set up shop ...