Joe Ades, legendary NY sidewalk potato peeler salesman

[martin ewen]

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/03/joe-ades-sidewalk-po.html

[martin ewen]

what I like most is that he never retired, he just plugged on, presumably because he loved it.

[lovelylittlelolo]

I used to chat with him all the time when I lived in the city. . . how sad!

[Jim]

I just read about this guy a few weeks ago and today I heard he had died.

He seems to have had a successful life and he was great at what he did. What a way to make a living.

Here's the actual peeler he sold:

http://www.amazon.com/Rosenhaus-Swiss-Peeler-Carbon-Steel/dp/B000UT69MY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1227814342&sr=8-1