[GreenKeys] Old NYC Canal Street Surplus

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Gentry" <ka2ivy at verizon.net>
To: <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Old NYC Canal Street Surplus


> On 3/22/13 12:43 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
>> Burstein-Applebee.  I used to do a lot of my parts 
>> business with them,
>> since they had a nice catalog with all the regular stuff 
>> in the front,
>> and then the back section was bargains.
>>
>> Then there was Olson Radio, which mostly sold junky 
>> stuff.
>>
>> jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
>
>   There was an Olson in Buffalo NY in 1982. They seemed to 
> buy out all the leftovers from consumer electronics 
> manufacturers when production of a model ended. One item I 
> remember well was a power transformer from a Sylvania TV 
> that had sockets for two 5U4s in the top end bell. They 
> slanted outward at an angle, looked cool. Also, Olson 
> supplied a kit of parts to build the "sweet sixteen" Hi-Fi 
> loudspeaker system that was very popular in the late 50s. 
> Does anyone remember Pally's (or Palley's?) and Wag-Aero? 
> They sold mostly military surplus aircraft mechanical and 
> electric stuff.
>
>    Bruce Gentry

     I remember Palley's surplus which I think was on Vernon 
ave near downtown L.A. My dad took me there in the 1950s. I 
have a pair of headphones that came from there.  Lots of 
airplane parts and hydraulic stuff as well as electronics. 
I doubt if I could find where it was now.
     L.A. was a center for surplus stores; I remember a few, 
Bond Steet AKA Surplus Sam's also another name which I am 
drawing a blank on, bought a J-36 there which I still have, 
V&H on Venice where I bought my BC-779 and other stuff. Also 
Columbia Surplus which was also on Venice, some others. 
Another, but not electronics was Freestyle Photo, originally 
mostly military surplus. This was my main place when I was 
in highschool because I could buy 120 film there for 19 
cents a roll and tons of slightly outdated aerial mapping 
paper. They also had lots of old aerial cameras, 16mm 
processing machines (for gun camera film) and much other 
stuff. Freestyle is still my main place to get photographic 
supplies.
     A place I've always been curious about was Esse in 
Indianapolis, they bought four or more pages of advertising 
in CQ magazine every month in the early to mid 1950s. For a 
while he featured pin-up girs around the borders.  I wonder 
if anyone knows anything about this fellow.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com