The cobbling tradition is being carried on by a half-dozen people in Maine, but most of them plan to retire or cut back their ...

Happy birthday to Peoria’s most famous shoeshine man, George Manias, who turned 94 on Friday. Friends and leaders of the community came in to celebrate, eat cake ...

What makes one shine shoes for a living? Is it a job that people take just out of desperation and poverty, or can it be a craft? An art form, even? Can shining someone else’s shoes be healing ...

A shoe shine man who has been a familiar sight in the heart of the capital for half a century set up shop on a recent weekday on a sidewalk near JR Tokyo Station. He arranged folding chairs in a ...