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All active customers on the Tower Hobbies mailing list received the catalog, as well as a bi-monthly Super Special Sheet spotlighting new and sale-priced items. [8] By the fall of 1982, Tower Hobbies was the world’s biggest mail-order retailer of radio-controlled airplane and boat models, grossing more than $15 million a year. [3]
After Great Planes Model Distributors and Tower Hobbies merged in 1984, Hobbico, Inc. was created. [5] In July 1985, Stephens, along with Janet Ottmers, Debra Love, and Eric Meyers, formed Horizon Hobby. [5] October 1, 1985, was the first day of official business as the team started shipping inventory on orders they’d been taking the months ...
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In the 1950s and 1960s until recently, Cox has produced a line of hobby-oriented models of cars, airplanes, and other vehicles. The most noted are the .049 cubic-inch displacement glow fuel powered models, controlled by line (Control Line) or by radio (Radio Control). AMC Matador.049 engine police car from the TV series Adam-12; T-28 Trojan ...
In 1976 Leisure Dynamics changed the company name to "Cox Hobbies Inc." In 1980 Leisure Dynamics filed for bankruptcy, taking Cox Hobbies Inc. with them. In 1981 Leroy Cox died on September 22, at age 75. In 1983 former Cox engineer and president Bill Selzer (whom Cox had hired in 1952) purchased the company out of bankruptcy.
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