[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

[Bruce Gentry]

WOW! there is someone else who remembers Meshna. They tended to have 
assemblies and parts more than complete radios, but their latest catalog 
was always welcomed at the nerd table in high school, as was the Fair 
Radio catalog and it's quarterly supplements.  I went to G&G in New York 
City in 1975 when they were in their death throes. A couple rooms 
stacked to the ceiling with stuff mostly in boxes, all the good stuff 
long gone. Leeds radio was also getting ready to pull the plug in 
Manhattan, I think they are back in business in Brooklyn today.  The 
most tragic I have seen was in Ithaca, New York.  It had been closed for 
years, and you could look in the window and see lots of good stuff. I 
was told the owner fell ill and left everything snarled in paperwork. It 
disappeared overnight in the mid 1990's

       -Bruce

J. Forster wrote:
> Or Meshna
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> -John
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>> 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
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