ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — On Gold Avenue in downtown, there’s a shoe shine parlor that opened its doors in the 1930s. Nearly 100 years later, and that parlor continues to serve the peop… ...

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Thurman started the shine by wrapping masking tape around the white rubber soles of my shoes. “I don’t want to get polish on them,” he explained. That was Pro Tip No. 1.

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 ...

Nisan Khaimov, who owns the Penn Station stand, said his stand would shine 80 to 100 shoes each workday before the pandemic. Now it’s between 30 to 50 on Tuesday to Thursday, and even fewer on ...