My question to all is how do we actually get a hobby shop in a major metropolitan area? Dallas is awash in nail salons, vapor marts, liquor stores and football emporiums. Try to find a hobby shop, an actual hobby shop, not some chain junket where no one knows a thing, and it’s easier pulling teeth.
Do I just live in a hobby desert?
I welcome any response that does not mention Michaels, Hobby Lobby, or HobbyTown. The email is gauss1701@sbcglobal.net
Welcome to the Forum, Steve.
Wife and I lived in Tyler, Texas for a year back in the '80’s. Then, there was Bobbye Hall’s House of Hobbies, in Dallas, plus another shop whose name I don’t remember in the Galeria (sp?) mall somewhere there.
Surprising that an area as big as the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex can’t sustain a few hobby shops, but a lot of stuff is online now, and actual shops are harder and harder to come by. If you live in a hobby desert, it’s a desert that’s getting bigger.
If you post questions here, in the appropriate forum, you’re likely to get better answers from the members than you could even get in a hobby store. There are people here with real expertise.
Glad you joined us!
Welcome to the forums,Steve
Welcome to the Forums Steve! Glad to have you aboard!
Jim [cptn]
Hobby shops are getting rarer every year…online is really the option these days unfortunately
Ms Hall retired some years ago in her 90s. She was just tired of driving from Lancaster every day. I don’t know there was a shop in Galleria, but Phil’s was nearby. He’s long gone. The only places are Hobby Lobby, a better kept MIchaels and Hobby Town. I’m not impressed with them, at least not here. The one in Plano’s okay, bu way too far out.