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I was digging through my moms basement and found this ............ an old Tower Hobbies catalog ...... and I had to share it 
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Tower Hobbies 1991
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Classic! My Brother and I ordered our first boat and engine from Tower back in the day!
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I always had that phone number 18006376050 memorized. I used to live out of that book as a kid. Dreaming mostly but I did order a lot of stuff as well. that short stuff was the first boat I built . I think we all stared at that book for hours back then.
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I know that exact catalog. Wow. I read / dreamed through that thing every night, back when I was in high school. I had just got into building and flying airplanes. Got a boat a few years later and helped a neighbor build a hot shot 3.5. Thanks for the memories!
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Tower Hobby was the place to go for anything Hobby oriented back then, then Hobby King came on the scene and pretty much ended Tower's reign of the Hobby industry. No more word from Hobby King like when they came on with heavy advertising. The other problem is the kids of today have no interest in RC anything. Some kids get into the Hobby, but their interest is short lived.
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i bought a few of those OS Max 65 vr marines,one 43 inch Atlas Van Lines U-1, two Miller Americans U-00 and some radios and other stuff from Tower back thenI was digging through my moms basement and found this ............ an old Tower Hobbies catalog ...... and I had to share it
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I remember every year we went to the Toledo Hobby Show which filled an entire arena. The crowd was so packed you could hardly get around.
The local brick and mortar hobby shops were thriving and a key part in all of the hobbies. Sad that those days have been long gone for quite some time...
Seems like every kid (some "adults" too) always have their face buried in their cell phone these days. It's really a shame the RC industry is slowly dying out especially now that the generations like us who have kept with it for all these years are getting older eventually becoming physically unable to continue in the hobby. It's unfortunate none of the younger generation seems to be even slightly interested in keeping things going.
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The local brick and mortar hobby shops were thriving and a key part in all of the hobbies. Sad that those days have been long gone for quite some time...
Seems like every kid (some "adults" too) always have their face buried in their cell phone these days. It's really a shame the RC industry is slowly dying out especially now that the generations like us who have kept with it for all these years are getting older eventually becoming physically unable to continue in the hobby. It's unfortunate none of the younger generation seems to be even slightly interested in keeping things going.
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Back in 1971 when I was in the Air Force I was picked to be a member of the Tactical Air Command team that participated at the USAF World Wide Model Airplane Championships at Chanute AFB just outside Champaign, Illinois. One day when there was no competition going on a Major who was a B-52 pilot asked some of us if we wanted to take a ride into town in his motor home to the local hobby shop. It was Tower Hobbies. This was before all of the mail order stuff started to catch on. It was just a nice hobby shop. Little did I know what it would turn into! Turned into a fun week flying model airplanes on Uncle Sam's dime!
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I have a brand new dv21 in the box that was also my very first boat RC, I also have a partially finished sorcererWow that brings back memory's. My first boat was that competition deep vee 21 and it still hanging in the garage, and the second was the Sorcerer I have a new kit in the box that I want to build some day
