I have been in N scale almost from the beginning in the 60's/? I dod knoww of Aristo Craft in Jersey City, but was not ierested due to the fact that it was large scale.
Another hobby shop was run by Alan.? Can not remember the name of the store.? He started out on the east side around 33nd Street and moved to West 45th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.? Do not know if he is stilll in business.
?????? Ira
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On 08/18/2020 4:33 PM G.J. Irwin <groups@...> wrote:
I don't remember how long ago they went out of business as a retail store.? A "spin-off" of sorts, Aristo-Craft Trains, lasted longer marketing model railroad equipment which was multiple orders of magnitude larger than our topic-- G Scale!? Aristo-Craft was nominally located in Jersey City for a while (across from Manhattan, I shouldn't assume everyone knows that!) and followed Polk's out of business in 2013.
I see from the post cited below that Polk's was started in 1935.? There are plenty of their ads in early issues of Model Railroader.
(Note: The "spinoff" in the thread leads to a junk domain.? I suppose you know how I know this.)
There is a long thread which started with Polk's and ends, well, I didn't read the whole thing, here:
Cheers,
George (your list-owner)
