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MILTON — For someone who’s been involved with shoes for most of his life, collecting shoeshine boxes comes as no surprise. Ray Leeser, retired owner of Leeser’s Shoe Store at 18 Broadway ...
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. It ...
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 ...
Hardly a block goes by in Manhattan without a shoe repair shop, and most of them have a shine throne or two. They are just as ready to give your kicks a high-gloss, mirror finish as they are to ...
Robinson and his older brother, Tariq Madyun, used to carry their shine boxes over to City Hall in Philadelphia, hawking shoe shines all day for 15 cents apiece.
Airport 'shoe shine guy' makes run for governor Tony Knox running as NPA, collecting signatures to get on 2018 ballot JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
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.
Robert Williams remembers back in 1945 when a shoe shine was a nickel. He has been shining shoes since he was 7-years-old and has 70 years worth of experience at the task. After his retirement ...
The tools of their trade were an old shoe rag, a toothbrush, shoe brush and various cans of shoe polish. They carried these tools in their homemade shoe shine boxes. The price for their services ...
David Shalmoni didn’t get into the shoe-shine business because he loves shoes or enjoys getting his hands dirty. It was the conversation involved that piqued his interest. When Shalmoni — a ...