I can think of no better way to kick off the 2015 Christmas
Season than with this 1940-era full-page advertisement by Cleveland
Model & Supply Company. The company is still in business today, albeit with a much reduced inventory line. Per their website, "Cleveland
Model & Supply Company, the oldest, continuously-operating model airplane company in the world, was founded in 1926 by Edward T. Pachasa
(later Packard). Mr. Packard started the business with his four brothers, his mother and father in their residence and a converted barn near
West 57th Street and Bridge Avenue, on the west side of Cleveland Ohio." Cleveland Model & Supply Company Ad
Posted November 26, 2015
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