[Heathkit] Heathkit question

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

John, Phil, Pete (and all),	
	
This is a reoccurring rumor. The mystery person, whom I do have the name of,
posted to this list last year. He was investigated and shown to be just a fraud.

	
While Pete is correct about some people formerly affiliated with Heathkit
selling items at Dayton, the stories about the street sales and so forth in
Benton Harbor are mostly an urban legend.	
	
Benton Harbor today looks like a ghost town, truly pathetic. The entire
community has simply turned into a blight stricken area that some call a ghetto.
Poverty and unemployment there is perhaps the worst in the state of Michigan.
When Heathkit shut down, it really hurt this community. I am NOT blaming
Heathkit for what happened, but there was not enough industry left, or willing
to move in, to pick up the slack.	
	
Although Flint, MI did not suffer the fate that Benton Harbor did, when most of
General Motors left here, including Buick City with the highest quality numbers
of any GM facility anywhere, it devestated the entire county. Other industry had
been kept away by the 'powers that be', so what could have saved Flint's economy
was never allowed to build here. Politicians blocked other companies from using
the old GM facilities, who knows why. All in all, Flint was ruined because the
city fathers did not have, or were too cowardly to use, the foresight needed to
see the future and plan for it. Money talks and good sense is avoided because it
makes too few cents!	
	
DBF	
  

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From: John Page <k4kwm at hotmail.com>
To: kq4by at rocketmail.com; franzsrf at umdnj.edu; heathkit at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Heathkit] Heathkit question
Date: Saturday, February 19, 2005 12:23 PM

     Well, the rumor still pops up from time to time about some guy in the 
Toledo Ohio area who has a "warehouse full" of unbuilt kits and will sell 
them "when the time is right".
     If he waits to long for the right time, the people who really cared 
about them will be long gone.
                                                                    John


John Page K4KWM
Hollow State since 1953
(ex W8PKU,N8BLB,NA8O)



>From: "Larry Keith" <kq4by at rocketmail.com>
>Reply-To: kq4by at rocketmail.com
>To: "'Richard Franzson'" <franzsrf at umdnj.edu>,<heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: RE: [Heathkit] Heathkit question
>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:04:43 -0500
>
>Hi..
>
>I don't remember the guy's name ( I do remember that he was from Michigan)
>but he was at Dayton for several years, selling Heathkit bits and pieces in
>the Bone Yard.  I don't think that he bought it all but he certainly had 
>his
>share.
>
>73,
>
>
>Larry
>KQ4BY
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: heathkit-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:heathkit-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard Franzson
>Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:48 PM
>To: heathkit at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Heathkit] Heathkit question
>
>I have a question that maybe you can answer.
>
>When Heathkit went out of the kit business back in the 80's. Who bought
>up all the kits that were in the Benton Harbor factory?
>
>As a collector of Heathkits I was wondering where the kits went. It's a
>darn shame that a piece of your youth is now long gone forever.
>
>Thanks,
>Rich
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