Well, the nostalgia floodgates have opened. My go-to train store in Cleveland in the 1950s was always Jaye and Jaye in East Cleveland. My dad took me there before Christmas every year and occasionally after. My parents bought me my first Lionel set there in ‘55 featuring a 665 Steam loco and freight cars.
I went in subsequent years to pick up accessories or add on cars, etc., using my “Christmas money” given by kind aunts.
I bought a 225 C&O FA diesel in 1960 after Christmas, too, so those two engines were my motive power.
I loved “Pappy Jaye’s” shop with its nifty operating layout in the back room and piles of O gauge merchandise on the shelves. I never had enough money to spend, of course 
A great highlight of my childhood holidays!
