WALDOBORO, Maine — With more Americans planting their feet in throwaway shoes and athletic footwear, the neighborhood shoe repair shop might seem like a relic from the past and a candidate for ...

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, ...

Megan Boisvert, the fifth generation to run the shop, noted that the store’s business used to be 70% retail and 30% repairs.

It's all here in this fourth-generation shop — unionization, assembly lines, automation, offshoring, corporate skulduggery, real estate booms — writ small.

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 ...

PORT LAVACA — Reginaldo and Tina Davila came here in 1954 with three kids and $20. He had a trade as a shoe repairman. Their first shop in the 100 block of East Commerce Street, opened March 4 of that ...

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday to Friday, David Yushubayev sits in a chair at Markell’s Shoe Repair with the door open, waiting for customers to pick up the shoes they left behind in March. Shoes in ...

Repairing shoes has been a perfect fit for Carl Rogers for the better part of 75 years. The Spartanburg native, who celebrates his 90th birthday on Tuesday, had only a fifth-grade education when he ...

Thrown out like an old pair of loafers. A shoe-repair shop on the ground floor of the Empire State Building — older than the skyscraper itself — is losing its lease after 94 years in business. Louis ...