Automobiles, stretchers, wheel chairs, hot-dog and souvenir stands clogged the main street. The world beat a path to the village of Williamsburg, between Winchester and Morrisburg, throughout the 1930s where a “tubby doctor cheerfully manipulated 2,700 fallen arches in a single day,” reported Maclean’s Magazine. Dr. Mahlon W. Locke was best known as the designer of a shoe with special arch support and for his treatment of arthritis. But for more than a decade he was hailed as a miracle man who could fix your feet by twisting toes and pressing fallen arches back in place. But it would cost you a dollar and not everyone could afford it. And it all happened in Williamsburg — one of those quaint hamlets that is characterized today as “blink and you miss it.”
