[Boatanchors] "Globe Electronics"

[Peter Markavage]

A quick Google search turned up this:
http://www.repairfaq.org/ELE/F_surplus_ca.html#SURPLUSCA_012

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:17:10 -0500 "EP Swynar" <gswynar at durham.net>
writes:
> To Any & All Toronto (Canada) Area Hams Reading This...
> 
> Does anyone know what's become of "Globe Electronics" on Keele 
> Street...?
> 
> I stopped by John's newer store location, just south of his previous 
> strip mall location, on Friday --- but it's now some sort of a pizza 
> outlet, or something.
> 
> He was one of THE last surplus electronic jobbers still in business 
> in this general area, & I used to love haunting his place whenever I 
> was visting Toronto. He's still listed in the telephone book, but 
> may well have shut down since the directory came out...I suspect 
> that, judging by the way John LOVED his cigarettes, declining health 
> (and age) may well have finally done him in...
> 
> I wonder what happened to all of his stock...? He had PILES of 
> goodies & treasures in his place! 
> 
> Gee, but that's now TWO surplus electronics outlets that have bitten 
> the dust north of the 49th parallel --- the first was W.J. Ford 
> Surplus Enterprises last autumn, up in Smiths Falls...
> 
> What's a guy like me gonna do...?!
> 
> ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>