A year before he died in 2011, I interviewed the legendary clown-appliance guy Steve Mizerany in a West County nursing home. He was weak, but still able to give a strong rendition of his well-known pitch, “Don’t be confused.” The Post-Dispatch did this obituary of him in the link below. He’s one of eighty folks in my upcoming book “The Colorful Characters of St. Louis.”
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Reedy Press published four of my books, Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis's South Side, 2010; Beer, Brats, and Baseball: St. Louis Germans, 2012; The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, The Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch; and the Second Edition of Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis's South Side, 2014. They're available in bookstores and online. For an autographed copy, send a check for $21.50 made out to Jim Merkel, to Jim Merkel, 4216 Osceola St., St. Louis, MO 63116.
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