[Milsurplus] How thoroughly they disappear

[Peter Gottlieb]

Damn, you're making us all feel old now. 


Peter

> On Dec 16, 2013, at 3:31 PM, "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> 
> Sweetie, that was 50 YEARS AGO! Boston was a surplus heaven then. It's
> only gone in the tank since eBay.
> 
> -John
> 
> ==============
> 
> 
> 
> \> 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
>>> 
>>> ==============
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 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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