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Steve Kulwicki, owner, and operator of Alex’s Shoe Hospital knows people with 50-year-old shoes! No joke. Steve’s shop regularly services the Notre Dame fencing team’s shoes and has even been known to repair the Fighting Irish football team medicine balls. South Bend has changed a lot since Steve was a kid, but his business, a South Bend staple for over 100 years, has seen so much more. Multi-generational cobbler and shoe repair in the heart of downtown, ready and willing to keep you on your feet! Quality shoe repair and sales. Serving the Michiana area since 1919.

In those days there were ten seats on the shoeshine stand that was constantly full. Shoe repair and shoe shines in our business remains our link to the past. Offering the best quality men’s dress and casual shoes was a request we often heard from our customers. In 1995 we took their advice and added Allen-Edmonds, Johnston & Murphy, Stacy Adams, and Bostonian shoes. We find these shoe companies worthy of our family’s loyalty and hope you try one on for size.

We offer a large variety of shoe repairs, from sewing and shoe shines, to complete resoling. In addition, we also fix purses, luggage, jackets, and just about any other leather(and a lot of non-leather) items. We also carry several lines of men’s dress shoes, including Allen-Edmonds, Johnston&Murphy, Stacy Adams, and NEOS overshoes.