[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

[Richard Solomon]

I often wonder what became of Electro-Craft that was located on
Dorchester Ave.,
Near Grafton St., in the Dorchester section of Boston. Last time I was
by there,
the building was still there, but the sign was gone.
This place had floor to ceiling Surplus Gear, including NIB ARC-5
gear. It would
have been quite a chore to clean out that place.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:21 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> ===========================
>
>
>
>> 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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