Iacovelli has spent the better part of his life working out of a little shop on Wood Street. For 70 years, he’s been repairing shoes for the people of Bristol. In a couple of weeks, he plans to retire ...

And while there are far fewer people in the profession than there used to be – Iacovelli remembers 12 shoe repair shops in ... much over the years. The machines Iacovelli uses to stitch soles ...

The familiar, high-pitched scraping sound of a cobbling machine ... to the shoe repair side of the job was dying clothes. But this was long before the days of tie dye. Rick’s dad used a liquid ...

Sal’s Shoe Repair in Merrick was being used as a backdoor casino ... witnesses said he saw Rosario “break one of the gambling machines” and shook down the location to find money man Joseph ...

“He said, ‘It’s where the K&B used to be at. They sell the chickens on the corner.’” Gloria Williams takes shoes from owner George Bowie next to Diane Jasper at Wilson's Shoe Repair in ...