Now there is a good question: What constitutes growth:
Is it total number of participants? Is it how much those participants spend? Is it how many cars, engines, track and accessories are offered? is it total number of units sold, regardless of price? Is it how widely distributed the membership is across the globe? How about the one we discuss from time to time: demographics? No one can deny that the profile of S modelers and train enthusiasts in general is getting older. Is that a bad thing in and of itself or is it a function of what the hobby has become? Or something else altogether or all of the above? And, most importantly, who gets to decide? But to answer your question John, I sure do consider that the addition of a Jim King to the scale to be a positive step. I only hope he sees enough merit in our proposed auto carrier project to give it a go. That is not to count out Don Thompson and the terrific SHS business he and Robin and others have built!! Maybe Don will be the one who produces the auto carrier. Why not both? The two companies aim for slightly different markets after all. Ed does have a point about the speed at which S has or has not grown. Our local club now has 20+ members, up from 10 about seven years ago. So our membership has doubled, but it took six years to do so. Populations of entire continents have changed in those years during enormous social upheavals amid giant leaps in scientific progress and, of course 911. And yet we poke along, slowly but surely adding one....new....member....at.....a......time.... Roy Inman, with only a few of the questions and none of the answers on a balmy spring evening in Lenexa. From: John Degnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:15:42 -0500 To: Edward Loizeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "POST : (S) S Scale Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} S's future ----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Loizeaux To: List, S scale Sent: May 17, 2007 2:17 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} S's future > Mr. Dave....I've been waiting for S's future to arrive ever since 1969 > when I bought my first S scale kit. So far, I have not seen anything > like what you are suggesting in terms of growth. But miracles do > happen..... Maybe the application of Miracle Grow would help? Say WHAT? You mean my efforts of dragging Jim King (and his INCREDIBLE models) into S scale didn't amount to anything!? I'd call that growth... wouldn't you? Or, heaven forbid, are there more S scalers dieing off than there are new folks coming into S? Besides... what does it take to constitute growth? John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:Scaler164%40comcast.net> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
