[Heathkit] Heathkit question

[Thomas Qualtieri]

Well we can thank Zenith Electronics for buying a Co the didn't want for 1 
division (Computers) only to mismanaged it into oblivion I would not be 
suprized that alot of the old stock is sitting at the bottom of lake 
Michigan in Zenith containers.

>From: "Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
>To: "John Page" <k4kwm at hotmail.com>, 
><kq4by at rocketmail.com>,<franzsrf at umdnj.edu>, <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Heathkit question
>Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:37:21 -0500
>
>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
>
>
>----------
>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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