For jobs that involve a lot of walking, it's easy to tear through shoe soles. Tire treads, on the other hand, can take a lot of punishment. As Hackaday points out, you can take remove the tread from ...

Here's the thing, though: giving old shoes a second life doesn't always mean wearing them forever. Sometimes the smartest ...

WAYLAND – Originally opened in the 1920s, Baughs Shoe Repair in downtown Wayland is still being operated by Alan and Lois Baugh after taking the business over from his father in the 1970s. Alan’s dad ...

ELK CITY, Okla. (KFOR) — The old soles wander in on tired feet. “It just depends on how long and hard you wear your boots,” says Ray Eeds. He’s has seen them in all sizes, and in pretty bad shape.

In the Sewickley Shoe Repair on Beaver St., Mario Ulizzi toils among rows of worn shoes and boots. The cobbler meticulously works various leathers, sometimes for hours, doing the work by hand. Ulizzi ...

How did this business get started? Ramon Reyes, 45, is repairing soles one shoe at a time at Da Boot Shop, a full-service shoe and boot repair shop he founded in Fayetteville in 1996. “We are a family ...

Almost 50 years ago, Dave Page — then a professor of American history at the University of Washington and Western Washington University — was bouldering with his girlfriend on a beach in California.

Helms Shoe Repair is a full-service repair shop for shoes, luggage, purses, belts and other leather products. Co-owner, Adrian Head, is a Certified Leather Craftsman, who works with two apprentices, ...

BUFFALO, NY -- Everywhere we go, they go with us. In many cases, they're one of the biggest reasons we get where we're going and yet, when they fall apart, shoes are often discarded and replaced. One ...