Wasn't it about a family that owned a gas station and there was an old fellow that collected junk with a horse drawn cart? In Calumet Michigan, we had a "Junk Man" who was Percy Ross's Father that had an operation just a block away from our garage. I don't think he used horses in the 40's anymore that I remember. The kit is by Jordan and this idea came to me of where to place it on the layout. This is the first street scene I did on the layout and titled "The Bus Stop". I took several weeks to find the manufactures that made the detail castings. The "Old Man" is heading for a junk pile that he has been given permission to go through just as soon as the garage driveway opens up. |
Back in those days, there was someone like this that paid you a couple bucks to haul away your scrap iron, batteries, tires and copper/brass. Now-a-days, that E.P.A. outfit would nail you with fines and jail time, plus charge a Hazmat Fee to get rid of good stuff. It's kinda hard to get around this part of 5th Street for months now (or years) with all the sewer work going on. |
Any project like this requires an expenditure of time so I take a picture before doing the final layout on the bench work. The garage walls are plaster made from a brick mold I have. For now, I'll hold back on the scenery until more is learned about the comic strip. |
