A Singer 500 sewing machine, known as "The Rocketeer" dating from the 1960s on a shelf in the garage workshop of John Niles Wednesday, March 6, 2024. John Niles repairs vintage sewing machines, some ...

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 ...