Ray Leeser, retired owner of Leeser’s Shoe Store at 18 Broadway, began collecting the boxes 35 years ago and has amassed 26. “Some I bought, some were given to me,” said Leeser.

BERLIN, Md. (WBFF) -- The shelves are empty in the Berlin Shoe Box, a store that has been on the center of Main Street in Berlin for more than 70 years.Jesse Turner is sweeping out a back room.

Now toiling as loaders and vegetable vendors, shoe-shine workers say their diminished incomes are not enough to feed their children; seek permission to resume w ...

At Mardeen's High Power Shoe Shine & Repair, it's about 'touching their heart, not just ... used to carry their shine boxes over to City Hall in Philadelphia, hawking shoe shines all day for 15 ...

“It’s an amazing story because I got my first show shine box as a gift on my seventh birthday and I went in business for myself.” Williams shined shoes on the square from 1945 to 1951.

These kids of the shoe shine era, that I speak of, weren't like many of the Toys-R-Us kids of today. My salute goes out to all those kids of the past with their shoe shine boxes. Robert D. Palacios ...

Airport 'shoe shine guy' makes run for governor ... He hopes to share his entire story with all Floridians, making plans to travel the state with his shoe shine box.

Of the 669 remaining K6 Kiosks, 100 will be adapted by the Red Kiosk Company into sweet shops, miniature cafes and shoe shine stands. Others across the UK have been fitted with defibrillators.

Thompson offered a “lifetime” shoe shine, for about $30, and he’d memorize the customer’s face and note the name in a notebook. For a single shine, Thompson typically charged five bucks.