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When I was 13 down in Corpus Christi, TX, I used to walk over to the 'Toy
Store' whihc had all sorts of hobby stuff, paints, art, models, electric AF/X
cars, trains all scales, you name it they had it. I used to go to buy odds and
ends for my big train set HO scale, Cannon City, which was loaded with Hot
Wheels, my originals from when kid. But would buy lychen, train tracks,
couplers, and even crossing signals and miniature people for train set,
depending on how much money I had from cutting yards.
That place long gone, but the service was great as any of the people who
worked there not only knew customers usually by name, but also what they liked!
When I would come in someone would show me the new Tyco boxcars, tankers,
engines, and other neat stuff they had gotten in.
Flash forward to 2009; there is big box store, Hobby Lobby abut 1 1/2 miles
from me at I-10 and Beltway. This is what the little hobby store in Corpus would
have been on steroids. Place is huge. They have whole row of you build it type
models. At one point they used to have whole row of Johnny Lightnings, we are
talking 12 rows top to bottom and about 12 feet across, BOTH SIDES of aisle But
they don't sell the little 1:64th metal cars anymore, and the manager told me
that while they still offer the electric AF/X type JL's they simply quit
stocking the metal diecasts. I am not sure why as I told her that it was the
only reason I came to that store with exception of Christmas items. I told her
that my wife shops there and 'to get me to come along' she had to say I could
dig thru the miniatures of course only way a guy would go into a store like that
unless gay.
So no reason to go there anymore, too bad, sort of shot themselves in foot,
one would think that if you can have 4 rows of easels and birdhouses to build,
put some more stuff in there for the guys!
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