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Article: Former social worker finds comfortable fit. (Weekly Briefing).(James Moore talks about shoes and shoe repair at Smooth Black Enterprises)(Interview)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 14, 2003
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JAMES Moore is no ordinary cobbler. Moore played football for the University of Hawaii, paying deep attention to his shoes. He knew how it felt when his favorite sneakers, so comfy they felt like extensions of his feet, finally fell apart. His Los Angeles shoe repair company, Smooth Black Enterprises, specializes in sneakers. After setting up shop in 1999, he realized he had so many sneaker artifacts that he transformed his collection into the mobile California Sneaker Museum, which puts on shows anywhere in Southern California.
"I started as a social worker after college. A coworker saw how clean my sneakers always were and he asked me to clean his. Soon, lots ...
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