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Old 01-10-2015, 04:05 PM
chrism chrism is offline
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It' always a sad thing when your hobby shop closes. The mom and pop hobby shops in my home area in Western Pennsylvania closed down in the early 80s. In spite of store like Walmart, Hobby Lobby, Michael's etc. just having one or two shelves of models or rockets does not replace the hobby shop. Now that I live in the Twin Cities, I am blessed to have actual hobby shops in the area. My favorite one here is Hub Hobby Center with two locations. There also is Scale Model Supplies in St. Paul which specializes in long out of production kits (both plastic models and rockets) and we also have 3 Hobbytown USAs in the metro. Recently Hobby Lobby put a few stores in the metro as well. The hobby shops help me tolerate the cold winters here!
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