Word: felix
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have started yet, but that hasn't stopped the players from working out. Yesterday, at Brookline High School, Luis Tiant displayed his pitching prowess, his physique, and his basketball and swimming abilities for an assortment of people, including his father, Luis Sr., and his long-time friend, Felix Fernandez, a Brookline High teacher...
...point, he was in the process of slicing off the heel of a massive cowboy boot. "Men's shoes," he said. "They take a long time. This one here needs the soles cut down and new ones built up. It'll take four or five hours." Felix said he would charge...
Since he quit making shoes--with the exception of a few sandals here and there--the focus of Felix's business has shifted to shoe repair; he also sells accessory leather good such as purses and belts on the side, as well as some rather unique footwear. For $5, you can buy a pair of bicentennial red-white-and-blue-saddle shoes, for example. The reason they go for so little, Felix explained, is that trying to get rid of them...
...Felix estimated that he repairs about 40 pairs of shoes a week. He likes to do ladies' shoes the best, he said, because they are the easiest to mend...
Sitting in his quaint workroom, replete with ancient Singer sewing machines, an endless series of Neolite rubber heels, and large rusting old machinery, Felix seems something of an anachronism, one of the few true remaining craftsmen. To hear him talk is at once poignant and glad-dening. For even as he acknowledges his anachronistic situation--"Nobody wants shoemakers anymore"--he would not want to do anything else. He genuinely likes his work...