Jeepman,

I remember the blind singers on Patton Ave. and on Lexington when the farmers' market was down there (late '40s, '50s).

I knew Doc Watson back then — my brother-in-law was a mandolin player who used to take me around on Saturdays when he'd go "porch pickin'" — and, as far as I know, he wasn't one of them. Of course Doc was a grown man when I was a little shaver, so I don't claim to know everything he did as he was growing up, but I've never heard of him doing any street singing.

Do you remember the legless pencil lady who used to sit outside the S & W Cafeteria on Patton?

David