The same Stengel, who as the Brooklyn Dodger manager when Rizzuto appeared at a tryout, told him, "Get yourself a shoeshine box."

A young man may still be spotted on Michigan Avenue or elsewhere downtown toting his shoeshine box and offering to buff out your scuffs.

Secret messages are passed to him at a shoeshine box, in a record shop, and during a boxing match.

During her time at Nierendorf, Nevelson came across a shoeshine box owned by local shoeshiner Joe Milone.

Salvador's brother Jose (Patrice Coquereau) sells their father's clothes to buy a shoeshine box to support the family and eventually abandons them.

He gave him a shoeshine box.

Many went as shoeshine boxes after he hammered cast-iron stands on top.

Lexie built himself a shoeshine box while in eighth grade shop class at Monessen High School, the last year he attended school.

A street vendor's repair bench in Henan Province, looks like a boy's shoeshine box here.

"He told me to get a shoeshine box," Rizzuto said.