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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sparks fly as Stephen Mobley presses the uneven heel of a woman’s dress shoe to a “finishing machine” to refine the shoe’s edges.

Tom Talerico could not stay away from the old soles. The 69-year-old once again is busy fixing shoes and showing the art to those who are willing to learn. “My wife owes her sanity to Casey,” he said ...

Walk into almost any shoe repair store and it’s like stepping back in time with the smells of polish, glue and leather, and shelves of worn shoes that call to mind a cobbler shop from another century.

Hitting the pavement in your cognac leather ankle booties on the reg can take a major toll on your favorite footwear. But a scuff here or loose stitch there shouldn’t go unaddressed because you don’t ...

EUSTIS — Downtown has been a comfy fit for Robert Dunston’s business. The 83-year-old has been toiling away in a cluttered shop at 15 N. Eustis St. since 1952, practicing a dying craft to give new ...

A bank of buffing and sanding wheels hum as shoe repairman Tom Anderson puts the finishing touches on a pair of women's shoes. "The heel has already been put on. Now I have to trim it," says Anderson, ...

Customer service is at the core of the longtime Kedzie Avenue business, which started as a small shoe repair shop in the ...

While many industries are seeing a decline in business right now, one shoe repair business says the troubled economy is helping him.Your shoes are made for walking, but when you walk and walk, you can ...

To walk into Al's Shoe Service at the Mount Prospect Metra station is to step back in time. The walls remind customers and visitors of the rich history of a business that began when Al DeAngelo opened ...

No one has ever used “Apple Pay” at Tony’s Shoe Repair, nor has anyone pulled out a credit card. At least not successfully. No, for 54 years, Tony Likirdopulos has taken only cash or checks, dutifully ...

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 resurgence with ...