LA shoemaker holds Hollywood’s past in a dying art

In a cobbler’s workshop in Los Angeles, the footprints of Hollywood history are stacked floor to ceiling, watched over by a man who says his profession is dying.

Yellowing boxes hold the lasts — foot-shaped molds — used to create footwear for everyone who was anyone in America’s entertainment capital for more than half a century.

Elizabeth Taylor lies toe-to-toe with Peter Fonda, Tom Jones and Harrison Ford.

In another stack sit the lasts for Sharon Stone, Liza Minnelli and Goldie Hawn.

Action heroes Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzeneggar are also present.

“There’s a bit of everybody here,” says shoemaker Chris Francis, the custodian of the famous feet molds.

Francis came into the collection a few years after the 2008 death of Pasquale Di Fabrizio, an Italian cobbler known in L