Dennis LaGrua posted:I consider myself lucky to have experienced the golden years of electric trains in New York City. While a little boy, dad took me to see the Lionel Showroom layout. We'd then stop at Madison Hardware or Julies on 23rd street to buy a new train item for my Christmas gift. Also recall visiting Santa at Macy's on 34th street and the large layout that was there in Toyland. There were also train stores in NYC uptown on 48th street off 6th avenue but I do not recall their names. In Brooklyn where we lived in Bensonhurst, the Fix-All Appliance Shop on Coney Island Avenue was the go to place for repairs and the occasional after Christmas sale item.
My family was of modest means and we didn't have all that much back then but those were really great times.
I think you mean West 45th Street off Sixth Avenue. That’s where the Red Caboose, the Roundhouse II and Model Railroad Equipment Corp. (later Train Shop Ltd.) operated hobby shops in the 1970s. (West 48th Street off Sixth is the street that’s dominated by Rockefeller Center. And that’s midtown, not uptown.)
