The Village Cobbler

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Vintage 1940's Manoil Old Man Fixing Shoe - Cobbler Figure - Lead Hand Painted Toy Figure

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Don't pass up the chance to tell your friends that you've had your shoes Shanghaied in Shanghai!:eek:nthego:
(Street cobbler in Shanghai, China, in 2003)
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My older sister's friend's father was the only cobbler in the small town we grew up in. He was very successful, and the kids never wanted for anything. They were the first to have a t.v. set, and a house with indoor plumbing (we had a wood stove, outhouse, and got water from a well).
The old shoemaker shop apparently still stands (he passed in his 90's, I believe). One of his sons lives above the shop.
 
I barely remember the last shoe repair shop in my Massachusetts town. It had this ancient musty smell, mixed with wiffs of glue. Stuff was piled up all over the place. and shoes, shoes and more shoes. There were these tiny tickets on everything. The owner was very old-had to be in his late 80s.
 
I have two or three shoe repairs within a few streets from each other. They are all run by Russians or Eastern Europeans who took their crafts with them when they re-settled.
 
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