Alongside the new C Street Flats apartments, an old world shoemaker shop, A. M. Kroop and Sons, breathes quietly and deeply in the hub of the city's revitalized Arts and Entertainment District. The shop's current proprietor, Columbia resident Randy Kroop, said she hasn't changed the painstaking 125-step process used by her grandfather since taking over the shop from her father, Morris, and her uncle, Israel, in the late 1970s
By Patti Restivo
Feb 16, 2016