11-14-2015, 07:10 AM
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NAR # 19250 - Life Member
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Woodstock, IL
Posts: 497
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Originally Posted by yousah
From what everyone is talking about it may have been Happy Hobby. I remember they had lots of vintage kits and when I talked to the store owner about purchasing some, he got really irritated with me. The guy was a real weirdo and I couldn't wait to get out of his store.
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The Fox Valley Rocketeers did a "hobby shop crawl" (think "pub crawl" except with hobby shops) in Milwaukee a couple years ago and we stopped in Happy Hobby. Very weird setup, with product scattered about, leaky roof, moldy carpet. I thought "Ah, we'll find good stuff here!" Alas, no such luck. I heard one of their stores (they had 2) burned down.
I love the variety and convenience of the Net for buying stuff, but it pretty much killed off the local hobby shop.
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