[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

[Robert Newberry]

I don't have prior military but I work in the fire service.

I know of a large city FD that has moth balled old prc-6's, gonsets, and
all kinds of gear from the 50's I'm assuming because of civil defense days.

I was in a rural fire house and in storage we found a mint gonset comm 3 in
civil defense yellow.
Never used probably never turned on with all of the paper work.

I'm sure if the fire service did it. The military has a forgotten cache
somewhere.
On Jun 14, 2012 5:24 PM, "Joe Connor" <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> >________________________________
> >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?
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >RF
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >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?
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Tnx
> >Paul
> >N6FEG
> >
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