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Re:Hobby Shops, was RE: (erielack) New EL car from Tangent S

 Randy signed off his last message as:

>"Randy Brown, who remembers Arno Rincke..." 

Now there's a name I haven't heard for years!!!  His shop in Hasbrouck (sp?) Heights was amazing.  Walls stuffed with everything, in no particular order from what I can tell, but he always knew where an item was.

When he decided to move to Montana (to hunt and to do his business by mail order) he was also hoping to buy HP Models (TT scale) and manufacture those items.  I had just returned from active duty in the army and he asked me if I would go with him to deal with the latter part.  That didn't work out (he couldn't get the HP operation) but he still kept after me to come out to Montana to teach school.  I oped for graduate school and my career went in a different direction.

For list content, I was starting my Erie brass collection at the time with a Max Gray Erie K-5a and various Akane USRA engines which I purchased from Arno.

Great memories of a bygone time!

Tony

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> There is something I don't get about hobby shops and their insistence in most of 
> the rest of the country that they "have to" charge full retail, or as in the 
> case below, more than MSRP.  Here in New England, or more specifically, in 
> eastern Massachusetts, the norm is that there is a discount from the MSRP. . .  
> My favorite shop, a 40-minute drive away, even 10-percent's the special order 
> stuff he gets for me.  And he gets that more or less instantly, within a few 
> days.
> 
> I feel sorry for you guys in full sticker price territory.
> 
> SGL
> 
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