Henry Linder - The Shoe Cobbler Landrum, South Carolina Shortly after the war ended, Linder found his way to Tryon, NC. He began working for Myrtle Tucker, who owned the Tryon Shoe Hospital in town. Linder was still open for business, 63 years later, in a small shop behind his house in Landrum, SC. 2012
That man has a nice smile. I wish I had his equipment. This is the first time I've heard the name Hagopian since I was a kid. I only found out recently it is spelled with an "a" and not a "y" (var.), and that it's an Armenian name. There was a dirt lane alongside my grandmother's house in Ohio that led back to a big old 2 story house. It was never painted, and so became dark and worn as the lumber aged. Rather scary looking to kids. The Hagopians lived there. My grandmother would always talk about those "Hy-GO-pians." They kept to themselves a lot. That always gets one into trouble. I never saw them, except their car driving by occasionally. The house was torn down by the time I grew up. Sorry, this has nothing to do with cobblers, except the man in the video says don't judge a customer by how they first look when they come into the store.
A Labor Day look inside a Naval Academy tradition - the cobbler shop (Video) Labor Day began in New York City, September 1882, as a tribute to the American worker, those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold." "More than a century later, increasingly fewer workers in Anne Arundel County are doing the delving and the carving. Today, the most common county jobs are managers, secretaries, salespersons and teachers. Industries change, so the holiday has come to celebrate all working classes." "And yet, in Annapolis, beneath the grandeur of the Naval Academy's Bancroft Hall, in a cluttered basement shop, among workbenches smudged with polish, one of the old trades endures.....Cobbling." (READ MORE)
Small town close to Akron. The oldest of my 5 cousins lived, and taught school, in Medina. Only people from Akron know how to pronounce the name correctly.
Shoemaker to the Stars Salvatore Ferragamo (1898 – 1960) was born to a poor family in Bonito, Italy, the eleventh of fourteen children. After making his first pair of shoes at age 9, young Salvatore decided that he had found his calling. He studied shoemaking in Naples for a year and then opened a small store in his parents' home. In 1915, he emigrated to Boston, where one of his brothers worked in a cowboy boot factory. After a brief stint at the factory, Salvatore and his brothers moved to California. In 1923, he took over the Hollywood Boot Shop across the street from Grauman's Egyptian Theater. (1956. Photo by Enzo Graffeo/BIPs/Getty Images) Although initially the shop was for repair and made-to-measure shoes, Ferragamo eventually found success designing footwear for the cinema.. He made shoes for movie stars of the era including “The Bella”, a pair of black calfskin pumps with ankle straps and oversized vanilla bows, which Gloria Swanson wore in the 1928 film Sadie Thompson. Salvatore returned to Italy in 1927. Ferragamo shoes are made in Italy and you can still buy "The Bella" today, for only $1090.