As a first generationStar Warsfan, I’ve always loved the Rebel Commandos from theBattle of Endorin 1985’sReturn of the Jedi. The gritty, rugged camouflage-clad fighters have always reminded me of World War II or Vietnam War soldiers, just the sort of realism found in so much of the ...
restaurants, clubs, book stores, comic shops and movie theaters, hobby shops of all types are becoming more and more a thing of the past here in the Five Boroughs. The causes of the decline of hobby shops in the city
With my life split between growing up in Western New York and living in New York City for the past 20 years, the American Revolution was been a near-constant presence in my life for decades. As a run-up to the release ofLoDI threw myself intoclassic and contemporary games of the Americ...
A visit to the Carlyle House today in downtown Alexandria is largely a tour of a grand 18th-century home, not unlike many historic house museums. For someone like me, imagining the heated conversation and planning for what was to become the Braddock campaign and the French and Indian War at...
One of my fondest early memories of scale-modelling was with theDover Publications“Cut & Assemble” or “Easy-To-Make” books. I recall a steady flow of these books in my house with my mother picking them up with some frequency off the book racks at five-and-dimes, toy shops and book...
5 thoughts on “A Gamer’s Guide to Manhattan’s Hobby Shops” Bob Bracilano April 5, 2016 at 6:21 PM Wow just found this page and it has brought me way way back to 1948 when I, at age 14 went down to Polks My mom owned and ran a variety store on East 114Street in ...
(ordered fromMusket Miniatures), giving me a number of houses, barns and shops which I set close together as a village center or spread out for use in the countryside. For my towns, I also have a set of Mark IV walls, a cobblestone courtyard and nifty fountain monument model. At about...
Across the road, the second American rifle squad crept along on either side of the bocage with the tank rattling along beside them. As the first troops closed near the house, the first minefield was exposed but no Americans were injured as they continued on at a slower pace. Their delay ...