Re: [ARSCLIST] Other memorable record stores

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From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> These stories about the NYC of old remind me of another Manhattan Mecca -- 
> Radio Row. For those of us who own and keep running vintage equipment,
> imagine the dumpster dives when Radio Row was condemned. There was a good
> Lost and Found Sound episode about Radio Row. Find it in the archive at
> www.lostandfoundsound.org
>
Well, there was so much surplus electronica left over after WWII
that it had to be sold off somehow...mail order electronic dealers
used to sell the stuff by the pound, and I recall having all sorts
of olive-drab-painted unidentifiable devices in my "junk box" that
had cost me more in postage than price! I recall buying a 19-tube
receiver that covered the AM band and not being able to figure
out how the heck one might get it working...

...stevenc
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