[Hallicrafters] Old Radio Shack catalogues

Fri Jun 1 19:44:55 EDT 2012

While at National and then later I did service work for Herb on the side, 
especially on the R-390's and other Collins surplus such as the R-388 and 
R-388A/51J4.

I was the one who set up the deal on the basement water damaged NCX-5's and 
accessories. I still have a NIB NCX-A and VX-501 from that burst pipe 
episode. National had quite a few unsold NCX-5's once the competition tore 
them up and they had sat there for years. One of the hats I wore for a short 
time was "Acting" Sales Manager while still the Service Manager and an Engr 
Aide. I later went to Engr full time until the layoffs started and 
volunteered as I was living in NH then and had a close job already lined up. 
Fun times

Then I moved to Chicago for Sanders Associates and Herb passed away just 
before I moved back in 1973. Many didnt like him mainly because he could 
spot a phoney right away and let it show. I watched him chase people out of 
the showroom.

One time a well known ham had sticky fingers and Herb literally tossed him 
out but didnt call the cops. He and I took turns sleeping in his office that 
night on a hunch while one was awake. That same dirtbag returned around 1AM 
and tried to break in thru the basement. I waited upstairs while Herb went 
out the front, around the back and proceeded to beat the s**t out of the 
creep. Turns out he had pilfered other items during visits with his pals to 
act as decoys.

The creep went to the cops later in the morning claiming he had been 
assaulted. Herb explained he had been awakened by a noise, put on a light 
and heard what sounded like something falling and then running away. He said 
it sounded like an animal and he had a racoon problem in the past! Herb said 
the cop looked him in the eye, smiled and left. I later made it plain to the 
creep and his pals that any further problems and more than a few bruises 
would result.....we never saw them again.

These days the useless cops would have had us both arrested.

He was experimenting with various imports as a way to get out of the ham 
business which was ready to take a dive with US companies folding. The idea 
was to have a botique for the wealthy town of Harvard and surrounding areas. 
Herb just wanted no more stress, play on the air and build his collection of 
very early radio gear.

Herb was more than fair to me and really surprised me with a very nice 
wedding gift.

Carl
KM1H

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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Old Radio Shack catalogues

>
> Hi Carl, ah.....yes. Herb Gordon. W1IBY. Been to his place quite a few 
> times when I lived about 15 miles away.
>
> Years later, I realized the 'connection' that involved Fort Devens and the 
> PILES of R390s he had. There was an R-390 school there at the time. I have 
> some of the pubs....
> I remember one particular Saturday, I went there to buy a National NCX-5 
> he was selling cheap. Seemed they were acquired from National due to 
> 'flood damage' or some other reason. Anyway, his health had started to 
> deteriorate, and I asked him what he was going to do ith all that 
> inventory when he got out of the ham business.
> He replied..."gonna take the entire @#$%^&* mess to the dump in Harvard 
> (Mass.) and bulldoze it in!!!".
> wow! I believe he had some sort of sewing machine import/export business 
> at the time also.
> You probably could fill in the blanks in my memory.....
>
> ron
> N4UE
>
> ex- WA1LZJ
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
> To: Ross Stenberg <k9cox at charter.net>; hallicrafters 
> <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Fri, Jun 1, 2012 4:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Old Radio Shack catalogues
>
>
> I had Radio Row in NYC to keep me happy for a few years and then after
> ettling up this way the Boston area had several places to crawl thru,
> eshna, Heffrons, DeMambro, Herb Gordon, Evans, Graham, etc. National also
> eld several employee only sales or auctions.
> I have a bunch of old RS catalogs and flyers going back to the 60's that I
> hould dump on Fleabay, might get enough for a few gallons of gas anyway.
> Carl
> M1H
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> rom: "Ross Stenberg" <k9cox at charter.net>
> o: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> ent: Friday, June 01, 2012 1:59 PM
> ubject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Old Radio Shack catalogues
>
> I did as I'm sure many others did in the day. My trips were to Allied 
> Radio
> on N Western Ave in Chicago and H+H on Kishwaukee St in Rockford, Il,  (a
> ham radio store).
>
>    73 Ross K9COX
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Joe Connor
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 12:26 PM
> To: Chris Kepus ; peter_may at optusnet.com.au ;
> hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Old Radio Shack catalogues
>
> Man, can you imagine walking into a store and being able to buy all those
> great sets (and parts) at those prices?
>
>
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