Reminiscing about a wonderful thing ,going - going -Gone ?

I remember when there was three Hobby Horse hobby shops in the Milwaukee area. The 5 and 10 ,and Woolworth that had a  good selection of kits. Mom and Dad knew were to find me.

 Know that I'm older the story is a little different  not as many hobby shops, the one locale shop is located next to a fabric  store ,so the wife knows were I'm at and I know were she at.

Dave

Rambo

I kinda know what you mean the owner of the LHS here is slowly starting to move away from models and more in the R/C side of things. He always had about a equal split of both but now when he does sell anything military he dosn't get anything to replace it with on the shelf but his model car selection is slowly taking over the military side of the shelfs and the whole store is being took over by R/C planes and cars.

My LHS guy is the best.  I was in there this week.  He says "Want some models ?"  Turns out he had been given some A/C but he mostly builds autos these days.  So gave me the lot.  6 x Hasegawa kits for nix....

Humper :

Next thing I know you are going to tell me the trip to the hobby shop was uphill both ways .Come on son , this old man could out story you any day of the week ! LOL ! LOL ! LOL ! He! He! He!  You are right on though . The " Local " hobby shop was rare in many locales anyway .Many were lucky to even have one .So it's important to make sure we support the ones we have !  Tanker-Builder    Model - On ! !

I remember when a number of South Florida shops went all R/C during a surge of interest in the mid-90s...and then went under when interest dropped. Brilliant move. I am pleased and somewhat surprised, however, to see that some of our local supermarkets are carrying some kits.

Not only was it uphill both ways, but we were barefoot and it was always snowing. . . .