[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

Thu Jun 14 22:29:41 EDT 2012

I do. Meshna's was a mess after the floor collapsed. Peter Boniface of B&F
, later BnF, still comes to the MIT Fleas. I'll see him Sunday.

Did you ever deal with old man Eli Heffron...  not the brothers. Or R&D
Sales on Mass Ave?

-John

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> Meshna's was my favorite Saturday hangout, lot's of great stuff and the
> back room had loads of goodies not in the Catalog.
>
> I visited his place shortly after he had died and it was pretty much
> cleaned out. What was left was free for the taking.
>
> Now for the real Olde Farte Test ... who remembers Electro-Sales on a
> side street off Atlantic Ave. in Boston ??
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:05 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>> 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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