Posted on 12/26/2018 3:41:30 AM PST by vannrox
Nashville still has Friedmans Army Navy but they lost gun sales due I think to some stupid violation and are in a lawsuit with BATFAG
They are a nice old Nashville Jewish family that go way back to the Occupation
This thread made me think of the Patrick F. McManus stories about kids and the Army-Navy surplus store.
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Nowadays, my favorite "modern war surplus finds" are:
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Thanks for posting this. Nostalgia Time!! '-)
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Used to love those places. There was a legendary one in Savannah Georgia and run by a Jewish guy who of course was a character! Doubt its there anymore. With the bases in Georgia and the South there was lots of surplus to bid on, buy and sell.
(I have a "sporterized" SMLE that's the hardest-kicking weapon I own...)
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I managed to get both in the early 60's. The Fairbairn was real, but I'm pretty sure that the scabbard was a knock off. My brother made off with that one. The Kabar accompanied me to Vietnam and for years thereafter on my LBE. The most useful tool I ever carried.
Sounds like a scam by the auctioneers: put out a bunch of garbage pallets first, then put out good pallets which only their buddies know are good.
Could have been in a few cases, but it was becoming an overall trend over time. I kept at it for awhile and it just got worse and worse. It was no longer usable “surplus”, it was truly unusable “garbage” that should have been disposed of in the landfill. And you can’t really look at it properly, they have it all banded up on a pallet tight in boxes.
For example my last purchase doing this I bought a pallet of what were claimed to be “new hydraulic valves in the boxes”. And a pallet of “new hydraulic lines in the boxes”. When I got home and popped the bands there was a layer of new ones on top as representative but all the others under these were new boxes with the “old part” they replaced in them instead of the new valve. Same with the pallet of lines.
This was the last straw, I realized they were purposely lying about what was actually on the pallets and using the auctions to dispose of their garbage. And there is not a thing you can do about it. Now if they had described the condition as “New AND used” valves and lines it would have been on me, but it was becoming a trend to mislabel and misrepresent what was supposed to be in the lots like this so I was done.
We lived about half way between Yacolt and Chelatchie Prairie. We moved their from North Bend, WA. in 1959. Dad was a timber faller for International Paper at plywood mill at Chelatchie Prairie. I left the area in 65, when I went into the Navy. Never went back, other than short visits.
Yep, on Gratiot north of Metro Parkway........
I remember talking Mt Clemens with you once.
Lived there 20years. Maryland now but well be there this weekend.
hiking/camping trips that the Scouts actually did for real back on those days.
Jamborees were also fun......
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