sewing machine repair

[from the Boston Globe]

SOUTH BOSTON -- George Candora, 81, has had a sewing machine repair shop in Boston for more than sixty years. Elliot Sewing Machine Company started in Elliot Square in Roxbury, hence its name, then moved to Broadway in Boston. When the Mass Turnpike extension was built, he moved to Harrison Avenue, and now his three-story shop is located on West Broadway in South Boston. His nephew Edwin Pacheco works with him now in a shop crammed with more than 4,000 sewing machines, including a couple dating to the early 1800s. "Business is slow," Candora admits. He used to service all the city's factory machines, but "all the factories have moved to China." Pacheco pipes in, "Soon we're going to move to China too." Candora responded, "And we'll work for 50 cents an hour too." These days, they mainly work on home machines and sewing machines from cleaners and tailors and colleges.

i'm going to drop my old kenmore off this afternoon, and hopefully have the car to pick it up tomorrow. i'm so excited to see the shop as my husband did the last run with the machine 4 years ago. he came back so excited about the look of the shop and fond of the friendly service.