One of the most interesting occurrences in Doc Sands Store took place during the first year after the store opened in 1946.  Doc Sands' employee Robert I. Faust joined with Doc Sands' customer Abe Mercer and Abe's brother-in-law Linwood K. Stauffer to form The Penn Line, an HO scale model train company here in Boyertown. A lot of jawboning went on in the store during  lunch hours with Bob behind the counter and Abe in front of the counter reading the wholesale model catalogs. Bob Faust always recalled the "official start" of the company as the day when he and Abe Mercer waited in Doc Sands Store for the arrival of the weekly rounds of a model distributor from Philadelphia. The agreement made with the distributor that day began the story of one of Boyertown's most interesting industries. If you are interested in HO model trains, please follow the link below.

In the 1880's as newspapers recounted the events at the O.K. Corral, Doc's friends apparently noted some similarity with a westerner just seven years his senior. It was the colorful gambler, gunman and sometime dentist Doc Holliday. He bore the name the rest of his life. And from a very early age his youngest son was called "little" Doc Sands. The "Doc" stuck even after the "little" was forgotten. He was known to everyone in Boyertown merely as Doc Sands. Later, as Boyertown's Justice of the Peace, he was known to perform his "shotgun weddings" in his gun shop. The store is now owned by the great-grandson of Boyertown's original Doc Sands.