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To: Fresh Wind
There is no cooler place on Earth than a good surplus shop!

Don't I know it! I wish I could find one. When I was a kid Sunny's Surplus had it ALL. You could get ANYTHING, up to a functional M3 halftrack or M4 tank chassis. When my buddies and I played war we looked like the gen-yoo-wine 101st Airborne...every peice of gear was authentic or nearly so. We even had dummy Springfield drill rifles. My buddies dad made him a whole bandolier full of inert .30-06 rounds on strippers so he could actually pretend to load his gun. Even better, back then you could get Axis relics for next-to-nothng at flea markets, so our "enemies" were fairly authentic, too. One kid had a real M38 tunic complete with an Iron Cross First Class. You could buy a really nice gun for what it'd be worth today, but he played in it until it went to bits.

Kids today have no idea how cool things used to be.

136 posted on 08/12/2011 6:11:39 AM PDT by jboot
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To: jboot
(Sound of grey_whiskers purring.)

Speaking of lamenting how things were way back when, you might enjoy reading this: (Vanity) In Praise of a Simpler Time, or, Dude, Where's My Childhood?

Cheers!

140 posted on 12/09/2011 8:22:43 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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