The venerable shoe shine business is still alive today. Anywhere there's crowds of people, someone will make a living shining the shoes of all those passers-by.In 1962 Otis Lowe was shining the ...

Tribune-Star/Joseph C. Garza Historical treasure: The Vigo County Historical Society Museum has a beautiful old-fashioned shoeshine chair, which used to reside in the 12 Points Barber Shop.

For the consecutive layers, small drops of water on the shoes can help applying the wax, or equally a small amount of water can be applied to the wax. 4. If you like your shoes with a little glaçage ...

M.W.K. says his mother taught him how to shine his own shoes. While in the military, he taught his friends how to do it. If you've ever been to the Kansas City International Airport, chances are ...

He walks back to his shoe shine chair and sits. "It seems the whole world has got into a big hurry," he says, and then, optimistically: "It'll get busier this afternoon." He's right.

The shoe shine chair attracts potential customers in, and once they sit, our professional shiner removes the shoe laces so youre guest can not go anywhere. A thorough 16 step shoe shine will ensure ...

BLOOMINGTON — From the base of a cherry wood stand, Ron Geske is reviving a throwback service. And in the process he’s bringing old, dingy shoes back to life. The 65-year-old Geske is already ...

His shoeshiners used to shine 60 or 70 shoes a day. Now a good day is 10 to 15 shines. Cardenas’ landlord gave him a break on rent, but he’s still struggling, and has seen several other ...

As soon as I walked through the door, beneath a pair of speakers oozing R&B, David Thurman waved me over to his chair. The shine men here still compete for business, as though this is the corner ...

His shoeshiners used to shine 60 or 70 shoes a day. Now a good day is 10 to 15 shines. ... Leather Spa had four shoeshine chairs in Grand Central and six shoeshiners rotating, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent winter weekday at Penn Station Shoe Repair and Shoe Shine, men hop onto shoeshine chairs and pull out newspapers and phones to read while shoeshiners get to work ...