[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

Thu Jun 14 22:41:48 EDT 2012

Eli used to get a lot of stuff from Lincoln Lab, in the mid to late
50's it was the
place to go.
Then there was the guy in Lexington who started getting stuff from LL. His
back yard was a disaster, but a gold mine. The town finally shut him down.
There was a guy in Waltham who got a lot of stuff from Digital Equipment,
it was a nice source of big 12 vdc supplies.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> ===============
>
>
>> 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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