Re: [ARSCLIST] Other memorable record stores

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> 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

There were great surplus electronics places in Toronto..I remember when
Teltronics on Yonge Street had piles of World Transcriptions for a quarter a pop
in 1964. Bought the Jan Peerce (Paul Robinson) one and a few others there. If
I'd been older and wiser I'd have bought all of 'em. I know one collector who
found a ton of original 16" Goon Show transcriptions at that place.

dl