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Yep, I've got modelling magazines from the 1970s and 1980s, with ads for their shops, including the one in New York. Back then, that would have been an Alladin's Cave for anyone from the UK !
As a kid, in the 1960's and right up to early adulthood, I used to go virtually every Saturday, to 'The Model Shop' on Blenheim Street (appropriate name!) in Newcastle. It was established circa 1920, on a corner block, three stories crammed with everything then available for modellers - a wonderful place!
Even after leaving the North East, over 40 years ago, I used to call in when visiting my parents or when on business in the area, and it had hardly changed. Sadly, the last time I went, some eight or more years ago, it had gone, presumably absorbed by 'Model Zone' or some similar 'toy shop' type of outfit. It must have been a great loss to all types of modellers and model engineers in the area.
Support your local shop - or lose it !
Stanton's was my local hobby shop until it closed down five or six years ago. A guy running another shop told me his help were robbing him blind when he wasn't there. That guy's gone too. I live in the city and now have to go way out to the suburbs to even buy a jar of paint as there are no shops left in Chicago. There use to be Trost Hobby Shop on the south side and Hills Hobbies just over the border in Park Ridge. All gone now.The best hobby shop I was ever in was Stanton, in Chicago. Alas, that was about 40 years ago. I found the four-stroke miniature radial engines incredibly fascinating. I wanted one, but the price tag (iirc, $1500) was a bit daunting....
Damn! What is that like, $20,000.00 in todays money?
By the way, I saw on the back of an old issue of Airpower/Wings that at one time there was like 5 Squadron hobby shops. Evidently, there was even one here on Long Island.