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| - You will absolutely miss this place if you're not looking for it, or not stopped in traffic. Country Club Drive is a racetrack at this point, and this store is in a nondescript building with only a small mailbox on the curbside to denote its existence.
Inside you'll find items for the 6-year-old boy you still are, or the 4-year-old boy whose birthday party you are shopping for. The selections here are pricier than you may find at WalMart, but I think they get enough of my money and I prefer to keep the local shops open. Don't you?
The clientele here is uniformly older gentlemen and younger moms. The older gentlemen are presumably retired and have time to work on model trains, or to reminisce on the years when train travel was THE way to travel. (Although our "friends" at TSA are hell-bent on bringing that era back to us!) The younger moms are picking clean the selection of children's train toys. It makes for a neat little environment, and the cats running around the store just add to the charm.
There used to be trains running on overhead tracks inside the store which would enthrall the kids. They have not been running the past few times I've been in there, although the overhead track appears to still be there. If they don't return it would be a shame as the kids really did get a kick out of them.
As Grandpa Mustache once said, "You'll shut 'em up with trains." He also said "trains made this country great, and now that they're gone, everything stinks." He also said some pretty weird things about the moon and Calvin Coolidge, but I'm pretty sure he was off his medication at the time, the poor soul. Anyhow, the part before all the craziness is true, you really will shut 'em up with trains. And the train table provided inside the store will both clue you in to what sort of train-related device the kids like, and will give you a moment's peace with which to find said train-related device. Brilliant.
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