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  1. Looks I get to resurrect this long lost thread. Great reading the memories here. I recall Jerry's very fondly and have vivid memories of many of the kits I purchased there (i.e. Monogram Helldiver and the huge -- at the time -- 1/72 Monogram B-1A on display behind the counter). I'm pretty sure, I too, came up short on purchases a couple time and paid later (with no interest!). And WCCO was always on in this place. Seems like this is probably where I was exposed to the Cannon Mess. Scale Motorsports was a store I had completely forgotten about. Went there once (I seem to recall it was in a very residential area) to get some 1/20 F1 car in the late 80s or early 1990s. The thread also jogged my memory on Hobby Depot in Richfield. Just off the runways at the airport and a pretty comprehensive stock of all things styrene and resin. While Hobby Dept and Hub were my go-to stores, in retrospect I sure loved those family owned operations with stock that had sat there for decades (many with unchanged prices). I really didn't appreciate those kinds of places at the time, but I do now -- years after being in any that have hidden gems of decades past. Any recollections on the Bloomington hobby shop at off Old Shakopee Road? I frequented that place in my NASCAR and Indy building days of the late '80s and REAL early '90.
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