[Milsurplus] Canadian Surplus

[Perry Lind]

More of the story,
 
I am 72 and was raised in radio broadcasting and electronics in general
in Seattle,and loved the mil. gear and still do, good luck finding it.
Don't forget Bill Zinn also had a place in West Seattle on California
Ave.  There was also Aircraft Equipment and Salvage (otherwise known as
B&T which is not now PC).  There was also Nuclear Electronics at the
north end of the Ballard bridge.  It was owned and operated by Bob
Bennett and Jeff Atwood and also Seattle Iron and Metals on Harbor
Island which was great if you could get there before they mashed stuff,
you could buy it by the pound as scrap.
 
 
Perry Lind
KC7ZEE


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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Canadian Surplus


That's interesting.  I wonder how many radio surplus stores ended up
"invitation only" with the widow?  I cleaned out one here in Houston in
the 80's.  It's basically what got me started in the surplus business
(not what got me started as a ham and a surplus radio collector - our
neighbor W5MO is responsible for that circa 1961 when I started to LSU).

In a message dated 7/22/2008 9:45:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 


	I'm a lurker on the Milsurplus list... and a 60-year Seattle
resident.  Seems to me you must have
	lived here at some point from several of your conversations.
	
	I remember all those surplus stores too and actually worked for
a while at the electronics store on
	45th in Wallingford.  It was partially funded by Bill Zinn
(name/spelling correct? my memory is 60
	years old too) and I made many trips to his several storage
garages to help move equipment around.
	
	As an old Seattle resident, you must know then, that the proper
term is "skid road" (originally)
	after (what is now) Yesler way where timber was skidded down to
the mill(s) on the waterfront - and
	connotation taken from the character of the people and
businesses in that area of course.  I
	recommend Bill Speidel's "Sons of the Profits" book, if you
haven't read it.
	
	And Remember: Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest!
	
	;-)
	
	Best regards
	  - Jim Klotz
	
	[ HM: ]  It's always neat to get some of the rest of the story.
I had no idea
	whatsoever that Wallingford Surplus was connected with Bill
Zinn. I actually
	don't think i ever stepped into that store. It was mostly
solidstate parts, i
	i think? Wm. Zinn must have passed on sometime after this, and a
few years
	later began the era when we began to get the period
by-invitation-only
	surplus hunts at his widow's place. There was still TONS &tons
of stuff left.
	God bless his soul; except for a hardcore packrat like him, some
of these
	early manuals - like spark and arc equipment manuals - might not
have
	survived. After the era of the invitation-only visits,
apparently the widow too
	passed on, and there was a final grand cleanup, at which there
was still tons
	of stuff. I still wonder where the crated MN-26's went. I heard
2 SW-3's were
	found, and wonder how i missed those.
	Someone told me that Wallingford Surplus had sold "an old wooden
ship
	receiver with plugin coils", to a local dentist. That sounded so
desirable that
	i never forgot that mention. Some years later, Art Corbus i
think it was, or
	someone else in the club, gave me a lead down in the University
District.
	When i went down there, it turned out a trio of young Filipino
men had a
	Marconi 730 ship's receiver. I think they had gotten it from a
yard sale and
	didn't have much of a clue to what it was. Anyway i bought it,
tieing up that
	lead from years before. Now i wonder if this came from Bill
Zinn's stock. He
	had apparently worked for Alaska Steamship Co. supplying and/or
maintaining
	radios, and in the garage attic i had seen another old ship
radio, the RMCA
	one with 4 type 10 tubes. I always intended to grab it on one
visit, but put it
	off, and then the invitations ended with the death of the
intermediary gentlemen.
	-Hue
	



Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480 
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