Milsons Point Shoe Repairs & Key Cutting

Nothing on earth is as honest as a cobbler. They toil with their hands and they take pride in their work, and when you find a good one you stick with him for life because that man and or woman but usually man is worth his weight in pirate gold.
Jim Saad is just such a man. His little shop is just across from the ticket window inside Milsons Point Station and has been there for over 50 years (there are newspaper articles on him, he’s part of the furniture). He’s a good, kindhearted man who started off from nothing and he does a hell of a job on your shoes, he really knows his leather. I’ve got some boots in with him for resoling at the moment, when I dropped them off there were a pair of girl’s boots on the counter and I could see him stroking the old leather appreciatively with his thick, dubbin-​stained fingers. He’s worked six days a week since arriving in Australia from Beirut, and from now on I’m a one-​cobbler man.