[Milsurplus] How thoroughly they disappear
J. Forster
jfor at quikus.com
Mon Dec 16 18:31:18 EST 2013
Sweetie, that was 50 YEARS AGO! Boston was a surplus heaven then. It's
only gone in the tank since eBay.
-John
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\> Well, surplus went downhill big time in Boston since then.
>
>
> Peter
>
>> On Dec 16, 2013, at 3:15 PM, "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes. I think so.
>>
>> It's not far rwally. Perhaps 50 miles. Quebec turned into a pit in the
>> 1970s. It mostly still is. Even many Canadians moved to Toronto from
>> Montreal.
>>
>> The big reasons I left Montreal to go to Boston was the political and
>> surplus situations.
>>
>> -John
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>> You're saying they moved to VT, USA ? That is one big move for a
>>> surplus business.
>>>
>>> Years back, in the early 1980s, someone i worked with told me he had
>>>
>>> seen AR-6 receivers at some store in Alberta, but i never learned more
>>>
>>> about this. At the time it was another one of those enticing rumors,
>>> like
>>>
>>> the mention of widow Mrs. Harris's basement with the BC-653.
>>>
>>> There's not a lot of info about on RCAF equipment. No images of the
>>> AT-12 either.
>>>
>>> -Hue
>>>
>>>
>>>> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:09:25 -0800
>>>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] How thoroughly they disappear
>>>> From: jfor at quikus.com
>>>> To: kargo_cult at msn.com
>>>> CC: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>>>>
>>>> ETCO was around a looong time. They were on McGill Street (I think)
>>>> when
>>>> I
>>>> was a kid, and moved to VT some years later. They were just about the
>>>> only
>>>> real surplus dealer in Montreal.
>>>>
>>>> -John
>>>
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