Long gone dealers of military and useful stuff

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Originally Posted by Dan Martel

Does anyone recall the surplus store in Winnipeg that was located on the south side of Portage Avenue across from the Hudson's Bay? It had a huge sign above the door with a reproduction of the 101st Airborne's screaming eagle. I've never forgotten that sign. One of my strongest memories of living in Winnipeg. I think it's long gone now.

Cheers,
Dan.

Yep, United Army Surplus. I was at the closeout auction about 8 years back I think. They weren't selling very much by the each...it was by the box, or the row, or the room. I bought a whole room full of stuff for $125, and sold $500 of it before I even moved it. The basement rooms went just as cheap.....tons of stuff for $100 or so. They gave the guys 5 days to get it all out. I went there in the last hour they had, and picked up a last few things from the room I bought. The guy told me to make a pile, so I ran around like a madman. First stop was the textiles room. Picked up boxes of battle dress buttons, spools of thread, and the best thing of all was a set of 10" heavy duty black scissors....the real ones and not the chinese knock offs. Got the whole pile for $50.

I still have one of their signs in the wall of the shop.