Wow, you can actually read the entire contents of every magazine? That’s incredible. I will definitely look through some of them.
I noticed on one of the covers that there was a mention of slot cars. There was a place here in NYC that I used to go to during the 60s and 70s to race my car around on various tracks they had. It was called Buzzarama. I couldn’t believe it when I found out a year or so ago that the place is still there. Only it’s a good deal smaller than it was back then. They used to have around 7 or 8 different types of tracks you could rent time on, including an HO scale. Now I think they just have one or two. I read that the owner says he doesn’t make much money doing it anymore, but wants to keep it going just to keep the hobby alive. To introduce today’s kids to it.
That is REALLY cool.
In Seattle there was a place called Bob Hale’s Hobby Shop. It was almost exactly where the main Westlake Mall Monorail station is and it was on the second floor. this was before Westlake park and all. The government took him out to create the mall. He had a huge 8 lane 1/24th scale track and a large HO four lane track. That was around 1969, the last time I went there when in Jr High.
I just remembered that we had a slot racing club at my Jr High and built our own four lane track with the help of the shop teacher.
I still have a LARGE Aurora HO set and about 20 cars. I plan to create a large permanent layout when we get more buildings erected in our “compound”. I’ll have to take sandpaper to the rails on every single track piece though, after all this storage.