In the beginning

[John Wagenseil]

In the beginning....
I found this posting on another hobby web site which goes back to the very beginning of North American paper modeling, before Jeffery's Hobbies and Berkeley Hardware, way before before the internet, almost before PMI:
TrainLife - Paper Possibilities
John Hathaway's Imported Hobbies used to be here
https://www.google.com/maps/place/41...4d-118.2858754
And once upon a time some of the members here even bought some paper models from Mr Hathaway
http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/402619-post29.html
I think he advertised in Popular Mechanics.

[Miles Linnabery]

Dear John:
And any one else I thought I had A John Hathaway catalog hidden away Found the stash of PMI catalogs but can't find the other. got one more place to look but have to get flashlight out and stand on head to look.
I know that I got my first models as a high school kid from John.
Miles

[rjm]

John, That last reference, (post29) was my answer to a question about the first paper models we got. I have a few catalogs from John Hathaway at that address. The oldest
dated one is Fall 1970, but there a a couple of older ones with no dates, one is a small
black and white one that says paper models with a picture of Neuschwanstein castle
on the cover and a picture of the old Schreiber Ulm Munster #7-613 on the back, along
with a picture of the Graf Zeppelin with a Ju 87 taking off from it. I never saw that
offered as a kit though. It's stapled together, as is the next one, this time with a plain
green cover, nothing printed on the cover. I bought almost everything he had in those catalogs, still have some.
Those that have since gotten away somehow I have replaced.
The last catalog I have from that address is from Oct 14 1978, at that time the Wilhelmshaven Me 163 was $3.10 (2 models). I've still got it along with the 262.
I first got interested by seeing the build of a Fw 190 in about the third issue of
Scale Modeler magazine which also had John's ad.

rjm (Bob Miller)

[bloomohio]

[QUOTE=John Wagenseil;580205]In the beginning....
I found this posting on another hobby web site which goes back to the very beginning of North American paper modeling, before Jeffery's Hobbies and Berkeley Hardware, way before before the internet, almost before PMI:
TrainLife - Paper Possibilities
John Hathaway's Imported Hobbies used to be here
[url]https://www.google.com/maps/place/410+W+6th+St,+San+Pedro,+CA+90731/@33.738899,-118.2880641,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80dd3630717abed9:0x880c6 499deb06e4f!8m2!3d33.738899!4d-118.28587 I beat you all i got some original paper airplanes from early 1950s in 1/33 and are not MMs ,but Mon and others though ,but I must admit that I got them from Poland and Czech. in early 1970s in exchange for plastic kits made in USA .