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Sounds like you've had a rough year - FYI - I believe the Merchant's Row series of building by Walthers, and originally done (in some kind of plaster or resin by Magnuson (back when you couldn't see your feet yet) are based on prototypes that were in Los Gatos, CA. These buildings were a couple of streets over from the South Pacific Coast Railroad (Southern Pacific) depot. The SPC was orig.3 foot n.g. until 1906 when it was standard gauged . The South Pacific Coast ran from Oakland to Santa Cruz, CA along the east side of San Francisco Bay and then thru San Jose and over the Santa Cruz mountains through the redwoods to Santa Cruz on the Pacific coast north of Monterey. Los Gatos, an incredibly beautiful town, is located on the east side of the mountains next to San Jose. When I lived in the Bay Area approx 25 years ago, the area that the 'Merchant's Row' prototypes were located was a favorite haunt of mine, esp. "Mountain Charlie's", a good restaurant with a very good bar and great bluegrass music several times a week. It was located on the second floor in the 'Merchant's Row II' block of buildings. And then there was this girl named Sue, that. . . I said "was located", because it is my understanding that most, if not all of those buildings were very badly damaged and raized following a California earthquake a number of years ago. Reason I went thru all of the aforementioned was to show you how you can enliven a scene, whether it's a model of your home, your Dad's place of work, your school or town's city hall, or your favorite model shop. In this case, it was a place and time full of wonderful memories, and there will always be a spot of prime real estate for Merchant's Row II on my layout because of that. . . Hope the rest of this year takes a turn for the better for you.
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