DANNY'S SHOE REPAIRS

Danny was a migrant from Italy and arrived in Perth in 1954, he had some training in the footwear industry in Italy as a young 13 year old boy from a shoemaker uncle in Venice... On arrival to Australia he worked as a woodcutter for a few years but his love and passion was in shoes, so he found a job in a shoe factory in Fremantle as a sports shoe maker... Some years later against all odds and in bad times he decided to open his store in what we now known as Northbridge, but he was good with people, determined, knew his trade well, and was convinced he could make a future for himself.

Primary location: Claremont