The cobbler is 54, young in a business that has grown old. His only child, a son, has already told him he won’t be taking over the family business when his father retires. It’s an honorable profession ...

SEATTLE — Swanson Shoe Repair is a family affair founded in downtown Seattle in 1928. The shop moved to its current location in the Wallingford neighborhood in 1947. Owner Danny Swanson grew up in the ...

PROVIDENCE — The clamping and thumping sound of a cobbler at work and the biting smell of leather rolls out the pitched door of a newly opened storefront at the top of downtown’s Mathewson Street.

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