"Shoe shining was not even in my radar," said Elisha Smith, owner of Mr. E Mobile Shoe Shine Service. You may have heard the phrase "the best things in life are unexpected," that couldn't be truer ...

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 ...

Taking the shine off: A piece of Americana, shoe polish stands begin to vanish across the nation March 4, 2023 at 10:00 p.m. by Mae Anderson and Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press ...

PHOENIX — If you’ve ever walked down Adams Street in downtown Phoenix, odds are you’ve seen “Andy’s Shoe Shine & Repair.” But have you met the owner? He can teach us a thing or two ...

So ‘Shoe Shine Caddie’ came out of my curiosity about Adrian Spears, a man I saw shining shoes for the lawyers in front of the San Luis Obispo County Courthouse. I saw him from 100 feet away ...

Kevin Tuohy, founding partner of The Shoeshine Guild, a San Francisco-based drop-off service, thinks it’s because more men are becoming fashionably ... then called A Shine & Co., in 1996 to offer a ...

If you ask around the city of Henderson, which we did, the words used by the locals regarding Davis include genuine, kind, sweet as can be, and one of the best men you’ll ever meet ... so I can even ...

For 26 years Mr. Cleo has been shining shoes and providing a listening ear to his customers. “Some just need to vent and I’m here for that,” said Fields. With the conversations come ...

For a real shine, I needed a professional, a shoeshine man with a spray bottle and a snapping cloth and a stand where I could prop my shoes on a metal foot rest. In this era of remote work ...

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 applying polish and ...