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Had a dream last night that I went to Alton Square Mall in the St. Louis area where I grew up and the whole place was vacant, except for the Kay-Bee Toys & Hobbies...I woke up before I could get into the store and see if they had any Lionel-HO freight cars 3/$5.00.
It got me to thinking about places I remember going to when I was a kid and what ones I'd love to go back in time to now...
Guess my top spots I miss are:
Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby
-I bought more Bachmann, TYCO, Lionel-HO, Cox, AHM and others there as a kid. Lots of lawnmowing money ended up at the Alton Square and Jamestown Mall Kay-Bee stores in the late '70s.
Woolco
-In Springfield, Illinois there was a Woolco not far from the N&W mainline that we always stopped at when my Dad and I were out train watching. When you see old AHM cars on eBay and they have those big orange circle stickers that say "Special 88-cents" that to me was Woolco. I remember seeing the big AHM-Rivarossi steamers for $19.88 there too. Bought my first Bachmann Metroliner at Woolco in Springfield when the model was new.
Hatfield Hobby
-Another Springfield stop was Mr. Hatfield's hobby shop. The Hatfields lived on the northeast side of Springfield as I recall. Their house was a typical ranch style home in a nice subdivision. You'd go up to the door and ring the bell and Mrs. Hatfield would answer and take you through the living room and kitchen to the door to the basement. Down the stairs, Mr. Hatfield would usually be sitting smoking his pipe and watching a portable TV playing WGN's broadcast of a Cubs baseball game. In a rather compact area of his basement, Mr. Hatfield owned and ran a full-service and well-stocked hobby shop. I remember he had a used product table that I could usually find a great bargain. Got an AHM 0-4-0 and AHM Center Cab Switcher there on various trips.
Dasho's Model Trains
-Located over the years in various parts of West County in the St. Louis area, Val Dasho's hobby shop was a main attraction for us on trips to St. Louis. My Dad did custom painting for Val. Dasho's store was where I first saw things like the Atlas-Roco diesels; Athearn's Train Master and SD-40-2.
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| Miller's Paint and Hobby, York, Nebraska. Spent a lot of time in their in the mid 70's. They carried lots of tyco trains and slot cars. Also carried Aurora slot cars and had one of those circular matchbox car displays. We used to go in their and open all the train boxes so one day we came in and they had a sign in the train section that read. "All right to look, all right to hold, but open the box, consider it sold" The owner was a bit of an old grump.
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Growing up here in NC- Gastonia/Charlotte area-there were several stores in the 70's-mid 80's that had Tyco Bachmann life-like products. Service Merchandise at christmas use to carry a huge selection of Tyco train sets and accessories as well as life-like. The local mall had a hobby shop called Lesiure Time Hobbies. They carried all of Tyco's loco's and accessories. There were two big stores also Nichols and Zayres-both carried huge selections of Tyco trainsets accessories and race sets. At christmas time they would expand the trains to both sides of the aisles (Tyco mainly) with all of tyco's train cars- loco's- accessories and a whole peg board section of all of tyco track packs and switches. The local Sears was fun to as they had mostly tyco at christmas. All of the stores above after christmas would always have huge sales and you could rack up big time on what santa forgot.
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I liked Kiddie City, Toys R Us, Lionel Leisure, Two Guys for their prices.
One of the best places around her was Broadbents Hobbies, that guy had everything and if he didn't have it he could get it. I had a broken cow catcher on my B&O pacific (Tyco) and he opened a drawer and handed me a new one no charge, but i had to paint it. Break wheels, what year ya want? trucks, who's?, light bulbs which engine?
Of course Tyco was @ 1/2 hour drive from me so I could go there if I wanted to pay top dollar. Allied hobbies is still in the area but I haven't shopped there in a long time but they had a good selection of magazines and they seemed to know what they were doing.
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Hi All,
Arlans, PlayWorld and Woolworth's come to mind as places I liked to shop for my trains. I remember going to the diner in the Woolworth's store for lunch with my Mom and as soon as we were done eating I was off like a flash to go through all the trains. AHH fond memories of my childhood in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Of course Tyco was @ 1/2 hour drive from me so I could go there if I wanted to pay top dollar.
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Tell us more! So, TYCO had a retail hobby shop? Was this Woodbury Heights? Morristown?
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Posted - March 16 2007 : 2:03:36 PM
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Never had any places like that when I was a kid. Just the pitiful selections at Toys R Us, whenever my parents would bother to go there.
Now Child World did have a nice selection of accessories and oddball makes, but again, there were never any special trips for me just to get trains.
When I finally was able/ allowed to go out on my own, I discovered the Golden Spike Train Shop in Burbank, IL - the only hobby shop with a measurable train dept within an hour's bike ride. They're still in business today. Of course now I live 380 miles out. Bah!
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| I grew up a long way from any hobby shop, so all I ever saw (and rarely at that) were trains at places like Kiddie City, Two Guys, Woolworths, Grants, Ames, and such places. I don't miss any one place in particular, but what I miss is just the ability to pick up (or just view) individual train cars (and now-a-days even sets) at anything other than a hobby shop. How are kids supposed to get interested in the hobby when its invisible? (I could go on for some time with this rant, but I better stop it there.)
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Posted - May 04 2007 : 08:50:37 AM
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Hi there! This is my first post, so please be kind. The one hobby shop I miss most is Trost Hobbies in Chicago. I was lucky enough to be there on their last day when everything was 50% or more off. They had a ton of new old stock (or is it old new stock) at their original prices. They were even letting people go behind the counters to look. Something I always wanted to do as a kid. So, for example, one item I was able to get was the Tyco GN Cable Flat for $1.00 - half off the original $2.00. Unfortunately for me, I was in the middle of a move, so my wife didn't let me load up on stuff - just a few pieces of rolling stock and a handfull of Microscale decal sheets is all I was allowed.
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Sorry I didn't check back in this post for a while so I didn't get to see
Tony's question about my visits to Tyco.
They were in Moorestown, NJ at that time, a large warehouse type building in anindustrial park I called them before my first visit to see if things could be bought there and got specific directions to their building. You could go in the back entrance and give a guard or receptionist your order form or if you didn't have one they would provide you with one. A phone call was made and someone came down took your form and left, coming back in a little while with you order. If they had everything you paid "TOP DOLLAR" and I mean top dollar. If not they would phone down and tell you what was out of stock and ask if you wanted it mailed out or pick someting else. Not so much a retail store as someplace to go to pick something up. If you had an account you could phone an order in. Later @1982 you got an order form in their yearly catalog that yoiu could fill in send it and a check and they would mail your order out to you. I didn't have or want an account. I only went there if it was almost impossible to find a specific item. I did pick up siderails for some loco's that came without them, again top$$ but not very many places could get certain parts. I stopped going there when the kids got bigger and their needs took over my pocketbook. It was still nice to know there was somewhere to go if you wanted a hard to find item.
Bachman was here in Phila. and still is. I knew someone who worked there and she got me some things I needed and the yearly catalogs but again it was top $$
AHM was here in Phila also and close to Bachman so parts were easily obtainable there also
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Posted - May 04 2007 : 6:39:22 PM
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Pro Custom Hobbies in Catonsville, Maryland and M.B. Klein's in Baltimore...sniff...now I'm gonna sob like a little girl. Both places were train centered, both had a boatload of new/used/basketcase bargains as well as state of the art stuff and do I miss slobbering over the brass showcases.
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SHAFFNER'S TRAINS in Canton, Ohio. My first train set came from there. They purchased model railroad items from estate sales and auctions and always had a constant supply of hard to find, one of a kind items. If they didn't have it (this was decades before eBAY or the Internet or home computers) - you weren't going to find it. The way they acquired estate items, it was rumored, was a little on the shady side. There was one story that people repeated over and over about how they purchased an entire basement home layout in the late '70s that was worth thousands from a Widow (who didn't know what it was worth) for just over a hundred dollars. But I miss the selection they had. The closet thing is a hobby shop in Medina, Ohio called Ormandy's (which luckily is still in business) that handles hard to find items purchased from estates (but unlike Shaffner's, Ormandy's primarily a Lionel shop).
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Posted - May 13 2007 : 08:00:26 AM
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| Besides "Toys R Us" there was a place in Detroit called 'Joe's Hobby Shop' near my old house. I haven't seen it years so I don't know if he moved his business or retired or what.
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Posted - December 24 2019 : 12:53:50 AM
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Revived this thread so we can reminisce about visits to train stores
decades ago which are now unfortunately gone.
I remember these train shops back in the day.
1) Polk's Hobby store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
2) Madison Hardware store on 23 Street in NYC.
3) America's Hobby center on 22 Street in NYC.
4) Toy City on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens NY.
5) World of Trains on Woodhaven Blvd in Queens NY.
6) Nagengast Hardware store on Fresh Pond Road in Queens.
7) SMC Hobby shop in Staten Island NY.
And there are plenty of other stores big and small that I remember as a child visiting.
The seven I listed had huge inventories where you can look at for hours.
I only spent perhaps an hour but other kids would be memorized by the toy trains for hours it seemed.
This has become a lost art in our society due to high rent and expenses.
Seems today most modelers rely on eBay and local train shows to complete their layouts and collections.
I am sure that others here have similar stories about their visits to treasured train stores that are no longer around.
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Posted - December 24 2019 : 01:10:46 AM
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As a kid I had Toy Town about 3-1/2 miles away in New Boston, Ohio... That's where my Tyco pieces come from. My favorite trip was going to Chillicothe, Ohio to Woolworth. They had a nice selection of Life-Like and AHM..
My most recent since 1999 , 90% was bought on ebay...
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Posted - December 24 2019 : 07:37:32 AM
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I remember my dad used to own a second house in tamarac that was given to him by his best friend who passed away. My dad would take me with him occasionally when he would go and fix it up. (I was like, 6.) And afterward, he would always take me to this little hobby shop. I loved that store. I used to have an old 1970s O scale set which we sold on ebay recently for around $250. I bought only one thing at that store, which was a the piece to make my O scale a figure 8. But still I loved looking around.
The store is now closed, and I haven't been down in tamarac since my dad sold the house last year.
Ah yes, memories.
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https://youtu.be/tR2zExJQU_M
Nice memories, Blax. This little place had this HO train layout in the window.
Had a lot of Tyco, some loose, some NOS in the back. Used to enjoy hiking
in the forests and go in there- kid in candy store syndrome usually hit. Bill
passed away last year, and that was that.
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Posted - December 24 2019 : 5:07:45 PM
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Caboose Hobbies & Mizell Trains in Denver
its now called the Caboose & is a shadow of its former self since it moved to Lakewood
I still see Mizell at train shows as his van still has Mizell trains on it
Oregon Trail Hobbies in Gering
I still have a couple of the signs I cut out from his business cards
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Posted - December 24 2019 : 6:13:15 PM
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Franciscan Hobbies in San Francisco. Bill Gunther really treated me nicely when I was growing up.
I also miss seeing HO trains in 5 & dime stores like Woolworth's. It was always fun to pick something up for a couple bucks.
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I should mention that I do have a few trains that came from Two Guys store 
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Posted - December 24 2019 : 7:53:56 PM
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One of my True Value Trailer flats has the big red Two Guys sticker on it!
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Posted - September 12 2023 : 9:48:25 PM
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The Big Little Railroad Shop was located at Somerville New Jersey.
Cute store with vintage items closed in 2018.
I just bought a few items but it was a cool store. Not my photos. From the internet.
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Posted - September 12 2023 : 10:02:35 PM
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I just went past the last hobby shop in my home town, and found it gone. It was a Hobbytown USA. They didn't have much train stuff but had a fantastic lot of scratch building supplies. I'll have to figure out what, if any, hobby shops are left anywhere around here.
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Posted - September 13 2023 : 07:22:33 AM
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It is sad that many of these stores are gone. But at least we fondly remember them.
My photo from 2022 of the new business store which opened after the train store closed.
Internet photo of the train store just a few years ago. Thanks for the memories.
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Posted - September 13 2023 : 07:42:45 AM
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A cute Lionel store in New York City back in the day. Mostly O scale but a some HO and N scale items.
I went there many times in the 1970s and 1980s. Closed in 1989 and moved to Detroit. Closed there not long ago.
You can see the changes over the decades. Not my photos. Memories.
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Posted - September 13 2023 : 3:17:58 PM
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Here in Pittsburgh we had a hobby shop called A B Charles that stocked everything. I considered Bud CHarles a friend, he knew me by name and would special order anything I wanted that he didn't have. He ran the train side, and his son ran everything else. Unfortunately, as is often the case, Bud died and the son ran the place into the ground. He sold the building they owned and rented an expensive and much larger location. A couple of moves later and the place was gone, just a shell of its former self.
This place was half a block from the streetcar, and I'd often ride a PCC car at least part of the way there. I lived on the line where the PCCs ran, and Bud's place was on the line that used the then new LRVs.
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Wherever I find something I like.
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Unfortunately important life changes affect our local train stores.
I called on Monday to find out the hours for Friday at a store I had been to.
The store is on Staten Island New York. Next to Manhattan via ferry boat.
Cute little store stocked mainly with vintage Lionel items but sometimes vintage HO items are available.
The wife answered the phone and told me her husband who is the owner had passed away in August.
She is still distraught over this severe life change and is not interested in keeping the store open.
40 years is a long time and expenses and responsibilities for operating a business can be too much.
My condolences.
Not my photos. From the internet. He also had vintage model racing cars.
S scale and O scale items were the bulk of what was available for sale.
http://www.3widespicturevault.com/FRONT%20PAGE%20STUFF/leblanc_main_1.htm
https://lioneltrainstoreofstatenisland.com/
https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/ny/port-richmond/george-b-leblanc-16856804
Rest in peace Mr LeBlanc. Thank you for the memories.
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Posted - September 14 2023 : 10:29:42 AM
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& now Caboose is closed & never got to go see it! 
Covid killed it off I think 
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On my trip west in 2019 DID get to the Cabooses last location Have youtube vid on my channel arielfilmsinc of the n gauge layout have lots of vids to post but editing is an issue Madison Hardware is where I got MANY of my Lionel HO MIB BEFORE it closed If you could be let loose in that store ffor 24 hours you would find anything and EVERYTHING you wanted AND STILL would have just scratched the surface Went to the store when they were taking boxed lots out in 1990 and thats when I found out it was gone Also something in Pennsylvania is closing as well A nice shop was Railworks in CT You always found SOMETHING there when you went also gone WAY before covid
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I went to the Staten Island store early last night. I knew it would be closed.
Just to see it before the items are sold or gotten rid off.
Would be nice for it to be saved. Too many obstacles though.
Spouse is not interested in the hobby like her husband was.
Expensive with time consuming tasks.
And she is probably around the same age he was when he died last month.
He was born in January of 1947. 76 years old.
Would be difficult for her to continue the operations.
And most people are not interested in our hobby.
Or taking on the responsibility of daily operation and upkeep of a small business.
That is the way life is now. Especially in NYC.
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Posted - September 17 2023 : 6:59:45 PM
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A few blocks away from the soon to be former train store was another train store on Staten Island.
I saw that site on Friday after photographing the first store and it definitely had bittersweet memories.
More sweet because I always look at the positive side.
Although long gone it was a fun store to see.
Difference is that the former train store owner is alive.
Almost 90 years old.
Former store was called SMC Model Railroad Center.
Had a nice selection of HO and N scale items.
I first went there in 1974 and other times afterwards.
Cute little store with a lot of items. Fun memories.
Internet still has the decades old info.
Contact Information
Sal Marino Co Inc
48 Greenleaf Ave
Staten Island, NY 10310
Contact: Sal Marino
Title: President
Business Description
Sal Marino Company which also operates under the name SMC Model Railroad Center
It is located in Staten Island New York.
This organization primarily operates in the Cameras business / industry within the Miscellaneous Retail sector.
This organization has been operating for approximately 50 years.
Year founded 1973
Sal Marino Company is estimated to generate $222,036 in annual revenues and employs approximately 2 people at this single location.
They advertised in Model Railroader and Model Railroad Craftsman.
Sometimes two page ads.
Check it out if you have any issues from 1973 to at least 1976.
The store changed to selling cameras around 1984.
Closed in the 2010s from what I read about.
I am trying to find any internet photos of the former store.
Cannot find any so far. Still looking.
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Only photos I was able to find.
When the store still sold trains although cameras were sold as well. Around 1980.
Mainly cameras being sold at this point around 1990.
Grounds are full of weeds and growth by 2010.
My photo last Friday in 2023. Store closed and weeds all over their grounds.
I could have taken a photo by the hidden fence but it would be depressing for some.
I take it in stride since I have nice memories of visiting the train store.
Thanks for the memories.
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On a positive note there are still some good stores left around the world.
This model train store company is still open. But not in the same location.
George's Trains started in Toronto Canada.
But recently it had to move to the suburbs due to high costs.
Although it still has the service and products it is not the same.
The original store seems to have more charm and character.
The new store building seems bland.
I think one or two members here have been to that original store.
I almost went years ago during my trips to Toronto to see the Blue Jays baseball games.
Just did not seem to have enough time. Pity.
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Posted - September 19 2023 : 8:24:29 PM
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I found some old ads from 1974 from that SMC store on Staten Island.
Check out the 1974 prices. This store was a model train store until the early 1980s when it changed to a camera store.
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Posted - September 19 2023 : 8:37:48 PM
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A cute little store near me when it was open during the 1970s.
I visited it a few times from 1977 to 1978 before it closed. No photos but I got an old ad from 1974.
Current store in 2023 after several ownership changes. At least this store is a cute children's store.
Life goes on. Not my photo even though I live near there. Photo from the internet.
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