Martin says offering shoe repair is another service that is unique to his business. “We’ve been doing this since the late 1950s,” he said. “We do all kinds of alterations. The shoe repair ...
I recently saw a picture of a family on Christmas Day in 1950’s Jamestown. In the picture, three children from the Bishop family sat in front of their fireplace on Hotchkiss Street, the girls grasping ...
In those poses, they have much in common with their counterparts on the covers of any cheap paperback — a mystery, a thriller, a Southern saga — of the 1950s or early ’60s. Up to a point ...