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Model Forum / General / Models / January 2008Squadron Turns 40!
Wow!! 40 years of Squadron Mail Order. There are some really good deals in this flyer. If January is any indication of how the rest of the year will be in regards to specials, I'm going to be a lot poorer by the end of it. How many of you have been a member since the beginning? > Wow!! 40 years of Squadron Mail Order. There are some really good > deals in this flyer. If January is any indication of how the rest of > the year will be in regards to specials, I'm going to be a lot poorer > by the end of it. How many of you have been a member since the > beginning? I do remember going to the Squadron Shop when they had a brick and mortar building in the Detroit area. Late 70s early 80s. I remember ordering from the old Warbirds shop in Detroit up through January 1968 and then from Squadron Shop later on that year. I always thought one was the successor to the other (in spirit it was) but Jerry Campbell pointed out some time ago that was not the case, just same city and same business. Ordered from them all the way through Vietnam and then hit the brick and mortar one in Silver Spring in 1971 after I got married. Roy Dwyer (RIP) was one of the best advertisements for Squadron up until the transposed shop in Wheaton closed. Still order from them several times a year. Cookie Sewell >I remember ordering from the old Warbirds shop in Detroit up through >January 1968 and then from Squadron Shop later on that year. I always [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Cookie Sewell looks like i need to if i want to get the flyers. which i do. besides radio shuck, there used to be an electronics co that sent out great flyers with all kinds of neat stuff. i believe they were national and as a teen, i eagerly looked for battery reel to reels, parts for projects and just cool doo dads. anyone remember who it was? i think early on the pages were mimeod and stapled together. On Jan 8, 10:41 pm, some...@some.domain wrote: > In article <437a803b-0e9a-4aaa-b7c7-d9aef8ed1...@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, AMPS...@aol.com wrote: > >I remember ordering from the old Warbirds shop in Detroit up through [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > to reels, parts for projects and just cool doo dads. anyone remember who it > was? i think early on the pages were mimeod and stapled together. Maybe Heathkit? I put together a couple of their gizmos when I was a kid, a friend of mine actually built an organ and a couple of color television sets out of their catalogue. Other jolks I knew and worked with had high praise for their build-yourself stereo equipment. Why did ~they~ fold up? >On Jan 8, 10:41=A0pm, some...@some.domain wrote: >> In article <437a803b-0e9a-4aaa-b7c7-d9aef8ed1...@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.= [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >with had high praise for their build-yourself stereo equipment. >Why did ~they~ fold up? no, i got their stuff, too. i'm thinking olson electronics if anyone can verify. they had all kinds of cool stuff. from ne transistors toys to old army electronics. i'll google around. >>On Jan 8, 10:41=A0pm, some...@some.domain wrote: >>> In article <437a803b-0e9a-4aaa-b7c7-d9aef8ed1...@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.= [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >electronics. >i'll google around. http://www.oldtuberadio. com/vintageads/O/Olson%20Electronics%20%20Ad%20PopElec%20Jan1963.htm >> Wow!! 40 years of Squadron Mail Order. There are some really good >> deals in this flyer. If January is any indication of how the rest of [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I do remember going to the Squadron Shop when they had a brick and > mortar building in the Detroit area. Late 70s early 80s. Been to that one, and used to hang in the one at the corner of Rt 83 and 64 in Elmhurst, Ill. Or is that more Villa Park?..  Signature- Rufus > Wow!! 40 years of Squadron Mail Order. There are some really good > deals in this flyer. If January is any indication of how the rest of > the year will be in regards to specials, I'm going to be a lot poorer > by the end of it. How many of you have been a member since the > beginning? Don't think I ordered anything from them until the late '80s. That's around the time the wife left and I could do things with my money I wasn't allowed to before. :) Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. > Don't think I ordered anything from them until the late '80s. That's > around the time the wife left and I could do things with my money I > wasn't allowed to before. :) > > Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. and look where that got you. double :-) Craig |
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