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Sentinel Star Photograph of William Gladden Sr.
Collection
The William Gladden Sr. Collection
Format
Original newspaper clipping
Date
c. 1977
People
William Gladden Sr.; William Gladden; Bill Gladden
Location
Apopka, Florida, United States of America.
Historical Background
A large-format newspaper photograph by Dennis Wall, published in the Sentinel Star, now known as the Orlando Sentinel, to accompany Dick Burdette's 1977 feature article about Gladden's shoe repair shop. It shows William Gladden Sr. standing behind his cluttered workbench, dressed in a work apron, surrounded by the accumulated tools, shoes, and materials of a lifetime's trade.
William Gladden Sr. was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1903. William attended Georgia Institute of Technology to learn to become a shoe cobbler, which housed a trade school for African Americans in the early half of the 20th century. William returned to Apopka to open his Shoe Hospital on 9th Street in the mid 1920s. William Gladden Sr. operated his business for more than half a century. In addition to his business, he worked as a driver for Orange County School Transportation.
