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There was a hobby shop in the McCormick Railroad park in Scottsdale Arizona by the name of Gerry's Trains. It was a cramped store in a historic building in the middle of the park. Gerry was an older individual, and the store was cramped and dusty. But he had quite a bit of interesting stuff in there! Looking back, it was a pretty cool store.
The problem was, Gerry wasn't open very much. He wasn't open on the weekends much, and generally wasn't open when the park was very busy. I don't think it bothered his business, because most of his customers were hobbyists who would come to the park just to go to his store - they werent the casual park patron who just stopped in.
From what I hear, the city did not like this. They wanted a store in their park that would be open when the park was busy (weekends and special events) and that would cater more towards the general public. So, one day, Gerry was gone, and in his place was a branch of Roy's Train World (another LHS in the area).
The main Roy's store is great. At first, the branch store in the park was 80-90% model railroad stuff. Roy's was also open during the summer concerts, and on the weekends. But as years went on, the store has sold less and less MR stuff, and more kids toys, candy, etc. I would say now, the store is 75% toys and candy, and 25% MR supplies.
Kevin
Remember Jerry's well! along with the antique store across the way,many a happy hour going through both....Well remember the day i walked inand stood looking in the back room at this HUGE ol' locomotive headlight ...took a min. or two to realise it was the same as one as on the front of this avatar....GN.! but it was sooo' Big! in all that time never realised the size of those things lol! no price on it and the next time i was out at Mc cormick it was long gone....Ah' just as well....what the hell would i have done with it? and the wife would have blown a gasket when it wound up in the family room....sign1