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Article: Charles 'Al' Carter: [ Age 86 ] The 'Shoeshine King' operated his stand for nearly 40 years, counting celebrities and athletes as his clients.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2007
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Byline: Frederick N. Rasmussen
Aug. 17--Charles Alton "Al" Carter, who was better known as the "Shoeshine King" because of the high-buffed spit shine he delivered to customers for nearly 40 years from his bootblack stand in the old Hamburger's department store, died of a bacterial infection Aug. 10 at the Augsburg Lutheran Home and Village. He was 86.
Mr. Carter was born and raised in Dinwiddie County, Va., the son of a sharecropper.
"Al wasn't ashamed of his humble and poor beginning. His mother died when he was very young, and he and his brothers were raised by their father, Samuel Carter," said Frances Keene, a cousin who lives in Baltimore. ...