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Thursday, November 11, 2010

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Ole Whitey said...: I wonder how many out there knew Doc. I first knew him as a billposter for various shows. At that time he lived on the New York-Pennsylvania border area.

Later he got off the road and dealt in circus collectibles and wrote this great book "Little Ol' Show" which was a semi-fictional work dealing with the running of a very small wagon show. Great book.

He wrote a dandy piece for Bandwagon once about the small almost-forgotten truck and wagon shows he had known in the past.; 11 November, 2010 13:20
Dick Flint said...: Ole Whitey: I met him once in the early/mid 1970s. He was living in Gibtown with a gal that had been a rider on the 101 Ranch show.
I remember Harry Anderson of Enquirer telling me how Doc Miller drove overnight to Cincinnati to pick up a load posters rather than have them shipped. He was worried that some opposition's advance might hijack the box. Anderson chuckled saying that only Doc himself was around to recall the tactics of the past.
Dick Flint
Baltimore; 11 November, 2010 21:39
Anonymous said...: Back in the mid 40's we had a knock on the front door around noon on a Sunday. Guess who?
It was Doc and he had arrived just in time for dinner and demolished the roast chicken we were having. My dad figured that he hadn't eaten for a day or two and figured rightly that Charlie would invite him to dinner.
What a great character.
Bob Kitto; 12 November, 2010 12:34

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