Tell your stories Of dealings with legends of the hobby

[martin neal]

Bruce, you may want to correst your post, you typed in my uncle instead of our uncle.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by martin neal

Bruce, you may want to correst your post, you typed in my uncle instead of our uncle.

Missile-launch code entered ... oops, another misfire.

[Rich Klein]

But I think this is as good as a place to mention my primary mentor in this biz "Tom Reid". I learned a ton from Tom over the years and I still miss him now that's it is 9 years since he has gone. I believe today may be the 9th anniversary of his passing, I know it was this week in 2001, I think it was actually about 9/6.

Tom was a hobby guy who was quite the character in many ways -- and he is still and always will be the ONLY person I ever allowed to smoke in my car. He was the promoter of the old Montclair State Shows in the 1970's and was a fixture for many years at all the big North Eastern shows

Regards
Rich

[bh3443]

Hi Rich! I loved that show in Montclaire! I was in my late teens/early 20's back then and had so much fun as well as buying/selling some great stuff.
Venturing out of Boston, I headed south to do shows in Meriden, CT, then those great monthly shows in NYC, on to Montclaire, NJ to arrive in paradise which for me in the late 70's/early 80's was Willow Grove, PA!
Some of the finest people I've had the privilidge of knowing were at those events and many of them came up to do my shows in Burlington, MA.
Tom was a great guy and I can still picture him at those Montclaire events!
Thanks for the nice post from you and everyone.