Saving Soles: North Market Street cobbler seeks successor to carry on the trade

According to Vito Loiola, he has saved more soles than the Vatican.

As impressive a metric as that may be in the shoe repair world, it’s perhaps more impressive — and a little sobering — that he is one of only about 3,000 cobblers left in the United States. When the North Market Street shoe repair shop business opened in 1947, there were 95,000.