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Remember when when there were no computers
or 24/7 TV broadcasts on hundreds of cable channels to take up all your free time,
and you would search for a meaningful hobby to keep you occupied? No, probably not
for most people who are reading this. Beginning in the late 1990s, local hobby shops
(LHSs) were disappearing as interest in activities involving the hands-on wares
they sold - model kits, craft kits, et al - was being replaced by activities involving
sitting in front of a video display of some sort. Hands-on was coming to mean hands
on a video game controller or a keyboard and mouse. Nowadays, hands-on more likely
describes activity on a smartphone. Alas, you can't stop progress, as the saying
goes, and ultimately that's a good thing. Old timers like me came into the model
building world when ready-built flying models primarily meant a molded-plastic
Cox .049-powered control line airplane
or maybe a .020-powered
helicopter.
This National Model Distributors advertisement appeared in a 1958 issue of American
Modeler magazine - the year I was born (ugh!).
National Model Distributors Advertisement
 Looking for a Hobby?
You'll find it in this fabulous New Edition of
Modelbuilders' Hobbycraft Cyclopedia
Only "book" of its kind ever published!
14 Sections
Hundreds of Hobbies
Thousands of Items
Printed in Colors
Many Helpful Hints
Over 265 Pages (9 1/2 x 11")
Cross Reference Index to Each Section
Profusely Illustrated
Names of Manufacturers Shown
Illustrated "How To Make" Ideas
Cyclopedia of Hobbies for every member of the family - men, women, boys and girls
- at your Hobby Dealers - priced at only $1.00.
National Model Distributors
2516 N. Greenview Ave., Chicago 14, Ill.
12530 Conant Avenue, Detroit 12, Mich.
Posted July 11, 2020
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