There used to be many hobby shops in the St. Louis area. When I got married in 1976, once a month my wife and I would take a Saturday and make a day trip out of hitting every hobby shop in the area, and it would take all day. This did include a stop at a old fashioned dime store that was still open then. I remember Schaefer's, Henze's Hobby House, Afton Hobby, Harter's Hobby and Clarence Idhoe (spelling) Main Street Hobby in Belleville, IL, Astro Hobby, Hobby Haven, , Manchester Hobby, Checkered Flag Hobbies (two locations!) and a fledgling little shop that opened in St.Charles about that time called Mark Twain Hobby where I would eventually work part time for 35 years or so. There were several more that I can't remember the names of and out of all of those, Schaefers and Mark Twain are the lone survivors. Harters was where the Speed pans came from in the old days and the Count Klipper, Peanut, and other such kits, but they evolved into a train and plastic model shop. Schaefer's opened a second location and when Art Sr. retired they closed the original shop on Virginia Ave in South St. Louis and it was probably the closest to what was depicted in the video, at least as much as I can remember. There were many others that used to be here and closed long before I was able to circulate around town. And they were all supplied by Pat Morrisey' s Ace Hibby Supply, or Jim Wilmouth's MidWest Model Supply. Good times! MAN! Those were good times!!! People these days just have no idea what they are missing!
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee