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Potato peelers put him on Park Avenue
Joe Ades wears a $1,000 suit and lives on New York City’s Park Avenue — thanks to the $5 potato peelers he sells on street corners. "Never underestimate a small amount of money gathered by hand for 60 years," he says. Read the story
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