[NLRS] Midwinter Madness & NLRS Breakfast

[WA2VOI, Donn]

Hi Gerry.

Unfortunately, ABC no longer exists.  Well, the retail operation, anyway.

Last fall, they sold out the entire stock to Ax-Man and closed the store 
operation in the Warehouse District.  Ax-Man in St. Paul has been re-organizing 
and getting the stuff from ABC on the shelves at the St. Paul store.  Much of it 
is now out, but not all of it.  I don't know if they're "spreading around" any 
of the stuff to the other stores or not.  The Crystal store (Bass Lake Rd) 
closed at the end of October, but the one at Minnetoka Blvd and Texas Ave is 
still open as is the one in Fridley (Moore Lake).  It appears that those two 
stores got much if not most of the merchandise from Crystal.

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj at netins.net>
To: <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Midwinter Madness & NLRS Breakfast


>
>
> Looks like soon OCB will be a place of the past. The closings probably weren't 
> planned long ahead  because they paid for listings in the Roseville Visitor 
> Guide 2016 and #MY St Paul insider 2016 print edition. Might prove to be 
> necessary to have an alternate as soon as this Saturday.
>
> Planning ahead for Aurora, I'm figuring on leaving home on Thursday and visit 
> historical museums in Farrabault and/or Mankato and staying overnight in one 
> of those towns and then going to the Pioneer Power Show swap meet east of 
> LeSueur Friday morning. I should be in the cities by just after noon and I'm 
> sure to visit Axman St. Louis Park, Fridley and St. Paul along with Radio 
> City. Is there a store front for ABC to shop these days? Where is it?
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
> On 3/8/2016 8:43 AM, Jon Platt via NLRS wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello NLRS land -
>>
>> This Saturday, March 12, is the date for our south side NLRS breakfast gather 
>> as well as the MidWinter Madness hamfest in Buffalo, MN 
>> (http://www.k0ltc.org/mwm.html).   NLRS will have a table at MidWinter in the 
>> club corral area, so please stop by and tell us about your summer VHF+ plans.
>>
>> Regarding breakfast, I note that yesterday that two of the remaining three 
>> Old Country Buffets closed their doors which now leaves just the Burnsville 
>> location as the last remaining OCB.   For those who are not going to the 
>> Buffalo hamfest on Saturday and who want to meet up for breakfast, I will 
>> list the Burnsville OCB on our website as our south side meeting location. 
>> The address is 14150 Nicollet Ave, Burnsville, located between 35W and 35E 
>> just north of Cty Rd 42.  For those meeting for breakfast, carbo loading 
>> commences at 8:30 am +/- standard tolerance.
>>
>> 73, Jon
>> W0ZQ
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