Ronald Phillips has been working on and off at Mirror Shine and Shoe Repair since 1981, but now the company on Park Street is closing its doors after nearly 50 years of business. Phillips says that ...

Bernard Simon used a short length of old broomstick to flip on a switch that sent a polishing wheel into high speed as he leaned a shoe tip into the whirling brushes at Mirror Shine. That whining hum ...

I like wearing boots, and the type I get usually aren't meant to be shiny. However, with multiple coats of polish, I DID get them near-mirror finish.<BR><BR><BR>Basically, you need a LOT of thin coats ...

Once a common practice for decades, then a novelty, the (almost) forgotten art of shoe-shining is making a steady comeback. The reason? Kevin Tuohy, founding partner of The Shoeshine Guild, a San ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

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