[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

[J. Forster]

There is a guy in Italy that bought a lot of WW II radio parts and has
been selling them off slowly. He is a major source of WS 19 and BC-xx
bits. I think the stuff is NATO marked. It probably sat in a warehouse in
Italy for decades.

-John

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> 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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