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A really good friend of mine used to own Baker's Hobby in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He sold it around ten years ago, the guy he sold it to, pretty much ran it into the ground, it was rescued and sold again, purchased by the "Hobby Town" Franchise. I visited this hobby shop about a month ago and I could not find anything in the store I had any interest in. All the Freight Cars where RTR and mostly from the modern era. They had a pretty good selection of Model Cars, ships and airplane kits. They had almost ready to fly (ARF) R/C airplanes. It appeared to me that they where mostly into R/C cars and even had an R/C Race track for them in another part of their building. The other Hobby Shop I have frequented, is in Fargo, North Dakota. On occasions this one might have some Accurail kits, which I do like. However, other than those and some model railroad structure kits, it is pretty much the same type of hobby shop as the Hobby Town shop in St. Cloud I mentioned above. I really find no need to visit these types of Hobby Shops, so the brick and mortar Hobby Shops I feel are not worth the time to go to. I really miss the old days when I could spend hours just looking over all the neat things I wanted at the Hobby Shops of 20 years ago!
Any body else feel the same way?
Any body else feel the same way?