After the war Stoliar worked in the oil industry and in shoe manufacturing.
At that time, shoe manufacturing was a significant industry in Boston.
That has forced a mass exodus of light industries, such as shoe manufacturing, to lower-wage countries in Asia.
From the knowledge and hard work of these immigrants, the city's first industry, shoe manufacturing, was developed in the 1920s.
Haverhill's international prominence in shoe manufacturing waned, however, after the Great Depression.
Following the war, the town returned to its shoe manufacturing, but production declined and the last factory closed in 1990.
The tradition of wooden shoe manufacturing is still maintained in Enter.
In Auburn, shoe manufacturing became the dominant industry by the late 19th century.
We were being told in school that Woburn was a town to be proud of because it'd been a capital of shoe manufacturing in the 1890's.
He became interested in shoe manufacturing and in banking.