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My experience this past year tells me that the LHS have to promote the hobby. Nick Nesbitt (MoKid) and I tried for over four and a half years to get family and friend interested in slots. It wasn't until after I opened the store here last July that we have been able to connect with other slotters. In the past year our twosome has grown to over a dozen. I started with an Artin American Thunder set on a table in the front window of the store and it stayed busy all summer long. Slot cars interest here in Poplar Bluff has taken off. Besides those who participate in the local group gatherings I have had doctors, lawyers, business owners and many others buy sets of all brands for them and their families to enjoy. Many of the local guys who are part of the active group were HO guys who got hooked on the 1/32 and 1/24 after visiting the store... and I think it maybe isn't the large scale they have taken to so much as it is the comradery of fellow slotters. But it has taken making slot cars an emphasis in my shop to make it happen and now slot cars and accessories is my major category. People have to be able to see the cars and take hold of a controller and they start talking 'We got to have one of these! " Not all of them do but a large enuf percentage here have that we are having a blast!

Doyle