5. “Slot cars. Almost all my friends had them. I modified with them to improve the speed and ‘stylishness’ of their cars.” There were indoor slot machine tracks where kids competed against each other and exchanged parts and recommendations. There were stores nearby that sold slot cars and their parts. Many of my friends spent hours and hours working on their cars and then more hours and hours on the slot tracks racing their cars! After a few years, the fashion began to decline. Many race tracks closed as did the stores that sold the cars and parts!” “Hobby shops and sporting goods stores also reduced their inventories or stopped selling them! A few years later, there were some vestiges of the slot car craze, but they couldn’t survive either.”—Anonymous, 73, Kentucky
