[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

[Joe Connor]

I wonder if the military has any WWII radios stored away in some long-forgotten warehouses. I remember reading about a fellow who was drafted in 1941 was assigned to clean out a warehouse on the base (Fort Meade?). In some forgotten storage area, he found boxes of Civil War muskets in their original shipping containers. Fifty years after the fact, this guy was still PO'd that the officers took all the muskets and the enlisted men got nothing.
 
                                   Joe Connor


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>From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
>To: "Thekan, Paul" <Paul.Thekan at cpii.com>; "'milsurplus at mailman.qth.net'" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> 
>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 5:04 PM
>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?
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>You have not been to Fair Radio? Although I was not around in the "golden Years" of war surplus, assuming that to be in the 47 to 57 time frame the showroom and back warehouse at Fair Radio has to be similar to what the alleged golden age was. Looking at places like Murphy's would say that's a close second but Murphy appears to specialize in newer equipment where Fair Radio is mostly if not all vacuum tube base equipment. I put several pictures of Fair Radios showroom and warehouse on my Dayton 2012 page and cannot imagine that there was or is any grater collection of military electronics for sale from the forties thru early sixties. Maybe there was these special places where BC-610, BC-348 and ARC-5 radios were in huge piles for low prices but never in my lifetime. Back in the late seventies I got into this stuff and you had a couple companies like Fair and some radio surplus stores in New York  and Philadelphia but those places had almost nothing in
 terms of military surplu
>s and were way more expensive then Hamfest.
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>RF
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>From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Thekan, Paul
>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:18 PM
>To: 'milsurplus at mailman.qth.net'
>Subject: [Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?
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>Hello all
>
>  Does anyone know of a 'recreated' War Surplus Radio store display anywhere here in the states? I know there are still a few surplus radio/electronic store survivors out there but I'm talking about the stores some here remember from the post war years into the late 60's, filled with the older gear and parts , many still NIB.
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>There was a recreated War Surplus store display done sometime back in the 90's as I remember a friend showing me an article in the Smithsonian magazine where this was done...maybe it was at the Smithsonian. It showed the general surplus stuff available but not specific to the radio/ electronics that was surplus  back then.
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>Anyway there are recreated old gas stations , general stores and so forth out there. I long to gaze again at the piles of  the old gear and parts...and oh that wonderful smell again. And then to find , in my experience here in SF, a somewhat balding , cigar chomping , sometime curmudgeonly proprietor to man the counter.
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>Tnx
>Paul
>N6FEG
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