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Article: FATHER AND SON SAVE SOLES.(Features)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 22, 2003
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
FLORENCE - Steve Dimitriadis was just a child, far too young to be trusted with the responsibility of replacing the soles on Elvis Presley's boots.
But his father, an old hand at shoemaking for the stars, wanted to give the child bragging rights. So he handed over the hammer and let the boy do his part.
It was only the beginning for the burgeoning celebrity cobbler and his young son who would eventually bring the business to Florence. Once word spread around Hollywood in the 1960s that Stavros Dimitriadis had arrived from Greece as one of the finest shoe repairmen in the business, celebrities were ...