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Our grandparents used to tell us how one
of the most disappointing aspects of growing older was having the lifelong familiar
family, friends, and places disappear. Now that I'm in my sixties, hard as that
is to believe, the scenario is unfolding before my eyes. Department stores like
Montgomery Ward, Woolworth's, Britt's, and Sears & Roebuck are in the dustbin
of history, as the saying goes. I really miss the garden and tool departments of
Sears. Nearer and dearer to my heart are the missing hobby products and distributors.
In the late 1960s when I first really was aware of radio control, a Kraft two-channel
receiver/servo "brick" system was my objet de désir for a simple sailplane. I had
to settle for a used three-channel
OS Digital R/C
system, and installed it in a Mark's
Model Windward glider. Tower Hobbies, Hobby Lobby, Hobby Shack, Hobby People,
and the like ran multi-page advertisements in every issue of Flying Models,
R/C Modeler, American Aircraft Modeler, and others. They're all
gone now, too - well, except Tower Hobbies is hanging on by a figurative thread
while Horizon Hobbies, the present owner, allows it. It all reminds me of the
Joni Mitchell song "Big Yellow Taxi," to wit,
"Don't it always seem to go That
you
don't know what you've got 'Till it's gone..." Ms. Mitchell, born in 1943 is
not gone, though.
Hobby Lobby Ad
Posted February 8, 2020
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