Ok, this is drifting pretty far from model trains in general and S in particular.
Hobby shops are an endangered species, mostly I suspect because fewer people do the kind of hobbies they support, and many of those people buy over the internet. Those are CHOICES people make for their own convenience and reasons, nothing mandated by the government involved. Most distributors refuse to sell to dealers unless they can document a "bricks and mortar" storefront in an attempt to limit the fly-by-night internet guys and the "dealers" who get stuff for themselves and their friends at discount. That, more than zoning (which has existed most of my life) is more to blame for the end of basement stores. Lots call this thread closed. Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 11/12/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Bob, this idea has > possibilities, BUT, remember the early > 70's when Washington FORCED everyone to "ZONE"??? Now > a costly, time > consuming process, mostly run by lawyers digging deep into > the requesters' pockets, > because they CAN. I understand that a hog farm in a > residential > developement is not ideal, but, most zoning laws favor the > wealthy "nimbys". I > remember George H W Bush, who had no real connections to > the people he > "served", during his presidency, remarked that > "Zoning was counter productive". > NOTHING changed, of course. > I often wonder how many millions of small businesses were > NOT created > because of Zoning??? > . > > Jim Lyle > > > In a message dated 11/12/2010 10:30:56 A.M. Eastern > Standard Time, > [email protected] > writes: > > Maybe this kind of semi- store coupled with train > shows and > e-commerce could be successful again for those small > purchases and > perhaps even the larger ones. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
