John Niles explains his love of restoring vintage sewing machines, some over 100 years old During the COVID-19 shutdown, John Niles found his passion, acquiring and repairing vintage sewing machines ...

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BUSINESS THAT RECENTLY MOVED TO STOCKTON DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM WITH GLEAMING CHROME AND BRIGHT CANARY YELLOW AND RED PAINT, THIS MACHINE IS POISED AND READY FOR A QUARTER, BUT IT’S NOT IN A CASINO.

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Debby Parise from Glyndon finds old sewing machines (like this hand crank-operated British Harrodia, which was originally sold at Harrods department store in London from 1920 to 1925), cleans them, ...

In the annals of American ingenuity, where the Holy Grail is the efficient delivery of a popular product in its perfect package at the right price, it all came together at least once, in the JLC-144.

When you think of a tape recorder, you might think of a cassette tape. However, [Michael Simpson] has an old Star-Lite small reel-to-reel tape machine. It isn’t a repair so much as a rework to make it ...

Brendan and Annie Fitzgerald, owners of FitzCo, stand inside SpareMe Bowl & Arcade on Wednesday, where they were hosting FitzCo’s monthly internationally ranked pinball tournament in Iowa City. The ...

John Niles sometimes puts a simple sign — white background, black letters — outside his house in a woodsy subdivision in the St. Augustine suburbs. SEWING MACHINES, it reads. No kidding: Inside his ...

STOCKTON, California (KCRA) — Take one step into Warren Treacher’s Davis home and you can see he likes to collect things. “I’ve always been into the Western art and Native American art,” said Treacher ...