I brought a little tin of Shinola shoe polish. Not a lot of people know what Shinola is, right now people know it today as a watch company; they have a store at North and Damen. Before it was what it is now, Shinola was a shoe polish, and there is a phrase that my great-Aunt [Lois] used to use that is popular with a lot of people: “You don’t know sh*t from Shinola.”

This belongs in the Museum of Lyle Hurst, Stuff That He Owned

Exhibited by Carrie Emge

Transcript edited by Serena Washington