Marsh Hobby Shop, South Broad Street 1951, The Burg
This was here in my Burg days of the 1970s and 1980s
as well and it was where I got my models and balsa
wood planes and things.
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4 comments:
All Burg kids began with Cox .049 model airplane engine. The first task was to learn how to finger prop start the engine without cutting off your finger nails. Once you started the engine, then you had to learn to fly the plane in fast turning circles while tethered to the two string up-down elevation controls.
The other big item he had was American Flyer S gauge and Marx HO
gauge model trains.
Did I forget Mr. Marsh sold chemistry sets and glassware, but no chemicals except for sulfur that would burn or go "boom"? For those, we needed Kemper's Drug or the railroad crossing on S. Broad (U. S. Steel and Wire) to pick up half-used railroad flares.
And you HAD to get a Coppersmith or Woodburner set for Christmas. The memory of slipping and pushing the hot iron through your left hand lasts a lifetime.
Remember Marsh well. Bought many American Flyer trains there. also bought my first Gilbert HO set. Lets not forget Trenton Hobby Center on E State St !
I remember the wood burning kits. Cool smell:)
I also spent a lot of time at Marsh's, but I built model cars and made those braided keyholders made of gimp. On the corner (Broad and Harding) is "Gunny's Tydol station, later to become Bob Cottrells and a few doors down is Korona Furs. We were a large neighborhood crew: Sam Marazzo, his brother Joey, Denny Pelehaty, Frankie Czyczyk, Pat Pichowski, me, Larry and Al (Bunny) Korona, who died in Viet Nam in 1968, God rest his soul. You could catch all or most of us at the DelView on Wednesday or Atco on Sunday.
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