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Showing posts with label MODELS-BUILDING 30's TO 50's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MODELS-BUILDING 30's TO 50's. Show all posts

Thursday, June 12, 2014

1951: Marsh's Sewing Center and Hobby Shop

Marsh's: Something for the boys, something for the girls. Stores like this were literal magnets for those of us who caught the model building fever back in my young years. We had McEwen's Deli as a dealer for those ten cent (yes, 10 cent!) "Comet" model airplanes. But when we wanted to move up to the big leagues, it was off to Marsh's for those Guillow's models and other "upscale" balsa wood "stick" models as we called them. Here is a closeup view of that late, great model airplane shop where we bought "Testor's" or "Le Page's" glue and we also purchased our share of "dope;" and I don't mean drugs.Ask any veteran model builder what we were "using" as they say in this year of 2014!

Monday, April 05, 2010

BUILDING MODELS AND MEMORIES

All you boy fugitives from the 30's, 40's and 50's who were into building model airplanes long before those mind-numbing video games and Ipods will be interested in this weeks column that appears in my column in this morning's Trenton "THE TIMES" newspaper.
Click on the link at the top of the page and journey back to your boyhood as I recall Testor's and LePages airplane glue, stringers, formers, struts etc.