Visiting the sneaker-making classes at The Shoe Surgeon headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, you instantly get the sense that students here leave with much more than a pair of custom sneakers or even ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Well-worn leather jackets. An old bowling bag. A drop cloth splattered with multi-colored paint. A bike tire inner tube. The leather from a beat-up couch.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Alexandria Wills is a local shoemaker and ...