Trip back in time to the Hobby Shop

We had Jim McKay's Macon Toy and Hobby. It started out in a hidden back room at the Joseph N. Neel clothing store in downtown Macon. You had to walk all the way to the back of the store, through really narrow rows of clothes until you got to a completely hidden doorway in the rear corner of the store. Then you walked into a store within a store. It was really cool. Jim finally outgrew that space though and opened the store in what was the Military surplus store on third street. They had everything, but their specialty was model railroads. That's where I got hooked. I used to ride my bike down to Central City Park on Sundays. The Middle Georgia Model Railroad club met down there to work on their N and HO layouts. Long gone now, of course.