White's Auto Stores carried American Flyer around Christmas time. I was pretty old before it dawned on me the extra track my dad showed up with a few days after Christmas when I got my AF set came from their after-Christmas sale!
Charles Weston --- On Sun, 10/16/11, JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> wrote: From: JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: U33C, was Flyonel Track & Challengers To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 7:37 PM As I recall, my Western Auto had only Lionel; could have been that another [hardware and plumbing] store in the small city had the AF franchise? Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > Completely different market. I wanted an AF train set from the first time I > saw one run at a Western Auto store in the late 1940's. I finally realized my > dream in 1953. > > There was another difference, too. J. Lionel Cowan and A.C. Gilbert built > stuff that pleased their market, not their marketing "experts". > Bob Nicholson ________________________________________ > > It was readily available at York this week, loads of Flyer on tables, > > probably not priced to sell to the average person and that may be the > > issue. > > Just not affordable???? Too collectable???? > > Jim Lyle > > > > Good point - look at how American Flyer flew off the shelves when it was > > readily available. > > Bob Nicholson ________________________________________ [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: [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/
