[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

[J. Forster]

Or Meshna

-John

==========

> 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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