your friendly neighbourhood bootblack

Posted by Ryan (Buenos Aires, Argentina) on 19 August 2007 in People & Portraits.

There are a lot of people with improvised businesses here, and a favourite is shoe polisher. You can get your shoes polished along any major street for about a dollar, but even this service isn't immune to inflation - one guy down by an office I teach at recently hiked up his price from three pesos to four.

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