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Shoeshine girl
Associated Press · August 11, 1964
Lillian Reyes is only 12 but she has a thriving business as a bootblack on a street corner in New York. Lillian conducts her shoeshine business at the corner of Broadway and 40th Street and says she wants to open a regular shoeshine parlor "where only girls work" for her. She charges 25 cents a shine and clears up to $103 a week with tips. She says she lives "on Manhattan's lower East Side and wants to be a doctor or a lawyer or something like that" when she grows up.
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