# Things you loved as a kid that you still love as an old person **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-still-love-as-an-old-person/985565 "2023-06-15T13:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 104
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-still-love-as-an-old-person/985565/104 "2024-06-13T14:23:31Z")
About 7-8 years ago I went to a old-school hobby shop for some specialist materials for a non-hobby home repair project. Imagine my surprise to find the shop dominated by a probably 30x60 foot 8- or 10-lane 1:24 slot car track. And wonder of wonders, two teenagers racing cars around it. I remarked to my wife that I was about their age when last I saw a track in a store like this. I recall there were even a few dedicated storefronts that just were tracks plus they sold a few slot-car accessories. No full-service all-hobbies hobby shop involved. [aside] I find it interesting that the traditional hobby shops of our youth catered almost exclusively to male hobbies, whether kids or adults. Those are substantially extinct nationwide. OTOH, the craft-centric hobby shops, e.g. Hobby Lobby or Michaels, are thriving with a merchandise set and a clientele that is almost exclusively female, be they children or grown-ups. Plus of course smaller single-hobby dedicated stores such as fabric or quilting or scrapbooking or … What has changed about society that male hobbydom has collapsed and female hobbydom has exploded between e.g. 1960 and 2020? Or is my perception mistaken? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-still-love-as-an-old-person/985565)._