Hobbytoan Ooopsie!

Once upon a time there were many stores where kits, paint etc could be purchased in our area. Now there's one fully stocked place and one general hobby - R/C, Plastic. trains etc. Both a considerable drive. Year's ago two of the shops here went down to state tax auctions. You show up as usual on Friday and there's a notice in the window - all contents to be auctioned by state tax department for deliquent taxes. The one guy critized the first to go as being unrealistic and not appreciating the tax folks were serious. Two year's later he went the same way.

Val Kraut

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There used to be a great ice cream shop on the Drag in Austin. Run by a bunch of hippies, all black lit. Great icecream and toppings and all that. They never paid sales tax. Funny, tax guys shut them down. Never figured out why.....

Was there anything "special" about that ice cream? Brownie flavor?

Oh, these guys paid their taxes all right and they weren't put out of business by the local or state taxman (Lord knows THEY charge enough in New York State), they just didn't pay their vendors, landlord or utilities. Word has it that most people who might have been customers didn't go there because they didn't know the place was under NEW management with reasonable prices. I was just shocked by their scuttling off in the middle of the night (literally) and sticking everyone with the accumulated bills. As I said, too bad they couldn't have called the franchise Bob's Hobbytown U.S.A.

I think the small had 15 scoops and 5 toppings. Had it once.

Other than that, usual bunch of flavors and topping. Just black lit inside, tables were cable holders wooden things sold cheap. Don't remember on what seats were. Posters all over, fluorescent paint literally dribbled everywhere.

Some tried to keep the 60s going way into the mid 70s.

Best oopsie is when Michaels for some bizarre reason has 12c markings on the models they sell. Checkers don't care, whatever it says it is, is what it sells for. Must be a glitch in the software somewhere. Hobby Lobby has a price sticker on it as well as the bar code. Michaels just scans and bags. Both use MSRP so using their weekly coupons helps a bit. Michaels has a half off for today and Monday, though they're still selling the same stuff they had a few years ago. How many variants of the glow in the dark pirate ship are there........

it's alive and well in the desert. still gets high and spare changes. still don't bathe enough. hate 'em.

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still gets high and spare changes.

That's not a very groovy attitude!

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

"Hey, where's Perry?"

f*ck hippies.

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Ahhh, you probably won't buy that Revell '63 Volkswagen bus either, will you?

sure, i could shoot at it.

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hate 'em.

After filling it with shovels and rakes and implements of destruction.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

The '60s are over?

PD

No go buy the knight models in your local hobby shop. And the Famous monsters. And the Seaview. People lie......oh yeah the Arizona and the MIssouri. By Revell. Life is good....Put on some Hermans' Hermits, you'll be ok.

Somethin' tells me I'm inta somethin' good - Herman

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Local Hobby Lobby is dumping some of the larger Trumpeter kits, Lexington carrier for $50 or so instead of $139, some other kits that size. Usually if they dump them in one store, its a nationwide thing, looking at the clearance section may be helpful. One or two Tamiya jolly greens I think. huge helo, don't remember. Thing is, these don't show up on their web site, sigh... so I drive 20+ miles to check what is there.

Michaels doesnt' change kits much, I'm not into cars, so can't tell about those. But they do have 40% off coupons on an almost weekly basis. Same with HL.....