When folks needed a shoemaker. Hard times. Shoes had to last.

HI barbara- our shoemaker in Delray closed a few years ago and haven’t found a replacement. I had a good friend years ago who took her expensive heels to a shoemaker before she even wore them. She would have soles put on them and other things and kept her shoes for years.

There is no comfort like a well worn pair of shoes. I have to tell you I have re-attached soles to yard work shoes with contact cement. The soles aren't worn out but come loose from the body. I also have a tendency to poke holes at the big toe in woven cloth top walking shoes. Out comes the trusty glue gun to repair them.

I can feel you thinking why not just buy a new pair of shoes?

Again, There is no comfort like a well worn pair of shoes. 

I can remember having shoes re-soled in downtown Searcy. I believe the shop

was on Market street. I fondly remember the smell of leather and shoe polish.

I always waited and watched the sewing on of new soles and the buffing of the shoe leather with the big  spinning buffer.

Thanks for helping me dredge up that memory with you blog.

The reason I waited for the shoes to be resoled is I probably only had one pair of shoes as a youngster. They had to serve as Sunday Go To Meeting shoes also.

I went barefoot everywhere in the summer. I so looked forward to shedding shoes and letting the feet roam free. Later I got a second pair of shoes. Ball shoes as we called them. Nobody played tennis so they weren't tennis shoes as was  a popular name. They always felt so good and saved the feet from cuts and bruises.

Now I have a collection of maybe 10 pairs of shoes. I'm wearing a pair of black leather Nikes right now with the silver swoosh on the side.

Ta Ta, time to head to coffee with the guys. We meet Mon. and Thur. at a Starbucks for two hours. We have a room reserved with long table and lots of chairs. Usually there are 10 of us. We have been meeting for 25 years now.

All work mates.