WOOD RIVER — Every time the chime rings as a customer enters The Clever Cobbler’s doors, owner Leanna Mueller says she knows she’s in for a project unlike any she’s done before. That’s because no two ...

Fifty years an Affton cobbler, John's Shoe Repair disappears Working in his shop on the last day before his shoe repair machines and tools were taken away, Giovanni LoCascio, 87, looks out for the ...

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 ...

A Toronto cobbler who has been repairing shoes for more than 20 years in Dufferin Mall says he thought he was going to lose ...

Photo by Janelle Patterson Bill, right, and Cecil Gossett, left, go over how to attach a new strap on a Birkenstock sandal in Cobbler John’s Shoe Repair in Marietta. MARIETTA — With machines, tools, ...

Ansley Travo is a few months into her cobbler training with Mike Derouin, of the former Thee Only Shoe Repair in Rochester. She says she enjoys the community around the shoe repair business and seeing ...

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, ...

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 ...

If Carrie Bradshaw’s stilettos snapped off while shopping on the shoreline, or if Dorothy lost a few rubies from her Ruby Slippers while dancing down the yellow line of Boston Post Road, there are ...

A back room wall contains all the key memories of Cobbler’s Corner from photos of their past locations to framed letters from owner Terry Thompson’s children detailing the art of shoemaking, through ...