[Milsurplus] Dayton reflections

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Indeed and  with smaller  swaps declining too...   I  had one old seller 
tell me....
 
"but...  if  I can list it  and sell it all  year  long  why load it and 
haul it cross country and have  someone  whine and insult  me about the price?"
 
And you know?    that is  the  way it  now  is.
 
I do miss the old  days  of early morning flashlight  hunt  at the  swap 
but as I age....a click of buy it now   works  out just  fine....
 
Ed# 
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In a message dated 5/21/2012 12:29:43 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
wa1tej at yahoo.com writes:

I've  been to Dayton 3 times over the years & it is sad to have personally  
witnessed its decline. The great WW2 surplus sellers & the guys selling  
the cool Motorola programming gear are gone & the variety is just not  there 
any more. I believe it has fallen victim to the economy & the  internet. In 
the case of Motorola I had heard a rumor that they sent some  Federal 
marshals & corporate lawyers to Dayton one year & there was  unpleasant fallout.

I experienced the same problem with the sun on my  first trip. It was 
relentless & inescapable. I slathered my face with sun  lotion which proceeded to 
get into my eyes & bring me into the medical  trailer to have my eyes 
washed out.

The really neat thing about  visiting Dayton is the astonishing rate of 
growth of the Air Force Museum. One  year I got to stand under the open bombay 
doors of a B-36, which was  awesome.

Jack