View of African American Otis Taylor sitting next to his shoe string ball at a shoe shine shop probably in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. A sign over the door reads: "1655." The ball was started in 1926 by shoe shine, Jack Hughes. The sign next to Mr. Taylor reads: "Laces from the shoes of famous people, otherwise from every state, many foreign countrys. Add you laces to this hall of fame that started in 1926 by Jack Hughes, master of the shoe shining experience X-pert shine parlor." Signs beside the door read: "Some People Live to Die, But I Die To Live, Jack Hughes" and "Pedal habiliment artistically lubricated expeditiously with luminosity and ambidextrous facility for the infinitesimal renumeration of .15 cents per operation." According to Otis Taylor, Jack Hughes started the ball with laces from Al Capone's shoes.
Description
1 slide: color.
Is Part Of
Tom Noel photograph collection.; Tom Noel photograph collection, notebook Washington-Wazee Streets.
Title and content derived from inventory prepared by Kathleen Barlow.; Scanned image from loaned collection.; Digitization sponsored by the Kenneth King Foundation; R7001516274
