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 ...

Dominic Ciambrone, known as The Shoe Surgeon, stands inside his exclusive client experience room lined with leather couches and walls of customized shoes, and looks up at a piece of machinery that ...

MARION — Growing up, Rich Foens remembers 13 shoe repair shops within three square blocks of each other in downtown Davenport. His parents' shop, where he learned his trade, was one of them. Now, 71 ...

The blacksmith is long gone, of course, so is the tree, but Sam the shoe repairman is still here as a reminder of those self-made men who worked with their hands and whose honesty, integrity, and hard ...

"I got fifty years of dust here," joked Giovanni LoCascio, 87, as he cleaned his empty John's Shoe Repair on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 in Affton. LoCascio was able to sell one Singer sewing machine, but ...