My favorite LHS was really a laughing matter. The owner flew, most of his stuff he flew into ol Mother Earth shortly after setting it up at the field. HIs Sig Seniorita was about the only thing he kept for awhile. Anyway, his shop was about 15 min from the field. It was one of his buildings at his house. An old Farm house with about 20 years of newspapers blocking the front door. Going around to the back to get his attention, one needed a machette or a bull horn to call from a distance. He had no phone so you couldn't just call and tell him your outside. Prolly wouldn't hear the phone anyway, TV was always loud enough to hear outside.
Once you got him to come out, he'd unlock his Garage and you'd have to climb over more newspapers, vcr tapes and cases of soda. Stay close to him or you might get lost. Past the resemblance of a pickup truck (complete with model train set up in it's bed. last time I was there the train set was just visable, but now covered with assorted broken planes, newspapers and cans.) Past the large model rocket pile (yes pile). Under the 13 built crashed and repaired planes he had for sale (at original price many have been there since the early 80's) Up the steps lined with 8' stacks of kits, I would guess about 50 kits here. Many no loner in production. Once up the steps It almost looks like a hobby shop. Racks of stuff hanging, shelfs full of goodies. But make a left and up a couple more steps, you have his building room. Same 1/4 scale cub on the board as I saw the first time I dared venture this far. (1982 I think). Along the wall is around another 30 or 40 kits, still from the 80's.
Now I had not been there insometime and the last time I was there I was introduced to some new stuff. 1 pile of vcr tapes everybit 10' high. Piled like you would pile firewood. A new section of Kits and ARFs engines and radios, batteries and fuel. The old ones are still upstairs, this is just a new batch downstairs.
The place is a total mess, usually takes 15 - 20 mins to find the not so common Items. Things are somtimes old, but if you look long enough you can probably find a newer one. If you cant and the old one ends up not working then you bring it back. Good service and fair prices on everything but "His" old planes. I bet he has about 200 planes in one stage of completion or another. Last time I was there I asked if he had been doing much flying. "Naw, don't have anything ready to fly. Crashed my Seniorita beginin of the season and haven't built anything else."
This place is just a spectacle, planes, radio's, engines, starters, batteries, balsa, monokote, pushrods, arfs, kits, boats, cars, rockets, trains, 100 or so of each laying around in no aparent order. This is HIS stuff. He also has a nice selection of stuff he's selling.