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Article: SMALL BUSINESS; Fun comes in a smaller scale; During the recession, the folks at Hub Hobby Center have found there's big business in model trains, planes and automobiles. Not to mention toys.(BUSINESS)(DICK YOUNGBLOOD)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2009
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Byline: DICK YOUNGBLOOD; STAFF WRITER
Hub Hobby Center Inc. is a Twin Cities area business that started as a small, conventional hobby shop and ballooned into a pair of hobby, toy and game superstores that offer everything from slot cars and train sets to radio-controlled helicopters and boats to classic car replicas that cost up to $450 and more.
Not to mention model rockets activated by a gunpowder propellant, collectible Madame Alexander dolls that cost more than your weekly grocery bill and aisle after aisle of puzzles, games, and arts and crafts.
Oh, yes, and a full ration of nostalgia: There are slingshots that are a tad more ...