and he notes -
Al Hall did have a storefront just north of St. Albans (at least in
the 70s when Ron Koch and I visited there). As I recall he had just
sold the store and was getting rid of the S inventory in order to
move to California. We looked over his stuff in the attic of his barn
where he ran the mail order side of the business. I forget what we
bought but I remember it was a lot of scale items.
Raleigh in Maine
At 10:08 PM 11/3/2008, C&PPorter wrote:
>Thanks to Dick for his great history.
>One note-In August 1965 we did a family camping trip-Boldt Castle,
>Steamtown, Niagara Falls, etc. and we stopped at The Hobby Shop in
>St Albans. My memory is hazy but I seem to recall a storefront, or
>maybe it was just a front porch? Anyway, I went inside and was in a
>room full of "S" kits. Living on a shoestring and with three kids to
>feed I couldn't buy mush but I did get a Nimco boxcar kit. Thanks
>for the memories...
>Chuck Porter
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Richard Karnes
>To: S-Scale
>Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 4:28 PM
>Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Spring 1964 issue of S Gauge Herald
>
>
>
>1. The Hobby Shop, St. Albans, VT, as I recollect, was a mail order
>business, not a storefront. When The Hobby Shop closed, S Gauge
>Herald publisher Wally Collins got the rest of the PermaBilt kit
>inventory as payment for previously-unpaid ads in the Herald. These
>are the same kits that Bill Fraley furnished to attendees at his
>recent hands-on "how to build a PermaBilt boxcar kit" clinics at
>NASG Conventions.
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