Article: For shoe repair, Jim's has more sole.(Reviews)(More and more people are treating footwear like facial tissue, but not at Jim the Shoe Doctor)

Article: Area cobblers say shoe repair business on ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal;  February 25, 2009 ;     694 words ... ... trend of increased business at shoe repair shops as people try to save money ... businesses beyond traditional shoe repair to survive. Jim McFarland, a spokesman for the SSIA, said the number of shoe repair shops had decreased from 120 ...

Article: As Fewer People Seek Shoe Repair, Atlanta Shops ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Business News Mar. 27--Jim Henry Johnson isn't a preacher ... rather than the rule because shoe repair is a dying art as fewer people ... a decade ago some 15,000 shoe repair shops were operating across ... why the gradual decline in shoe repair? Casual Fridays -- a trend ...

Article: SHOE REPAIR SHOP WAS MADE FOR WALKING TO NEW ...
The Virginian Pilot;  April 23, 2000 ;     676 words ... ... at 15, learned the shoe repair trade from his father ... The family founded Star Shoe Repair more than 75 years ago. For a time, Jim Huggins left the business ... might like to go back into shoe repair. ``I had been missing ...

Article: Shoe-repair shop keeps tradition ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  October 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... doom for small, traditional shoe-repair shops like hers. "It's ... was no newcomer to the local shoe-repair circuit - she had spent nearly ... side by side at another Eugene shoe-repair shop, Jim the Shoe Doctor, and the pair ...

Article: Grogan's shoe-repair service gets new life; Back in ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  July 30, 2001 ;     683 words ... ... Another option for solving shoe-repair dilemmas is now available ... absence. The longtime shoe-repair specialist recently reopened ... indicating what type of shoe repair is required. Grogan ... repair," Grogan said. Jim Kuennen, manager of ...

Article: If the job fits... Cobblers seek a future in shoe ...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... footwear, the neighborhood shoe repair shop is striving to adapt ... think I'm the closest shoe repair to downtown. ... It ... It kind of hurts the shoe repair industry overall ... to be slowing, said Jim McFarland, who serves ...

Article: Vanishing cobblers|In throw-away society, shoe ...
News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  April 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... footwear, the neighborhood shoe repair shop might seem like a relic ... appears to be slowing, said Jim McFarland, who serves on ... of an impact." With new shoe repair machinery prohibitively expensive ... for business," he said. Shoe repair has traditionally been a father ...