It wasn’t the West’s swankiest antiques store, but Blinky’s Antiques and Collectibles in Denver might’ve had the region’s most unusual—and friendliest—proprietor.

A retired clown.

Coloradans grew up watching the children’s show “Blinky’s Fun Club” on KWGN-Channel 2 from 1965 until it went off the air in 1998. By then Blinky—whose real name is Russell Scott—had been running the antiques shop on South Broadway that bore his screen name for about 10 years.

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