24 Sep
2003
24 Sep
'03
3:49 a.m.
We'll be in St. Louis this weekend. Any good museums, junk shops, or
other recommended geek destinations in the area? GPS coordinates happily
accepted. :-)
25 Sep
25 Sep
1:19 a.m.
Bill wrote...
We'll be in St. Louis this weekend. Any good
museums, junk shops, or
other recommended geek destinations in the area? GPS coordinates happily
accepted. :-)
Two surplus places that I know of...
Gateway Electronics 314-427-6116 or (800-669-5810) 8123 Page Blvd. - St.
Louis, MO 63130
Gateway is mostly modern stuff, but they have an isle or two that is quite
old stuff. Not great, but worth a look-see.
Electronics Exchange 314-426-4263 they moved, but are on St. Charles Rock
Road in the St. Ann area.
Electronics exchange is all surplus, never know what you'll find there.
Inventory changes a lot so I go every 2 weeks.
Museums - not a lot to speak of. St. Louis science center is cool, but
mostly oriented for children. I have heard rumor of a museum of technology
and engineering, NOT part of the St. Louis Science center, but I've never
been able to find it.
Then, if you're into mini's, you can see my junque heap sometime sunday if
you'd like. Contact me off-list for number, etc. if you want to do that.
Jay West
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12:28 p.m.
New subject: Geek Destinations in St. Louis? (Also San Diego [slightly different topic])
Bill wrote...
The guys at gateway have the building next door full of inventory, and if you
get friendly with the right fellow at the counter, you can get a tour of that
building,
and see a bit of other stuff. Just ask what they have, and indicate you made
a special trip in from some distance and I have found they accomodate me
and dig a bit so that I don't miss any "new" stuff.
but then I've been coming there since they were on Delmar and Stu had just
started it (maybe 35 years ago).
Sadly Stu passed away a couple of years ago, and is sorely missed.
on a slightly different topic.
Gateway has a San Diego outlet that has some stuff, and there is also a place
nearby there worth seeing in San Diego called Industrial Liquidators.
I also dig out the listings for the guys in El Cajon when I go down there
junking.
Any other San diego places to see?
Jim
We'll be in St. Louis this weekend. Any good
museums, junk shops, or
other recommended geek destinations in the area? GPS coordinates happily
accepted. :-)
Two surplus places that I know of...
Gateway Electronics 314-427-6116 or (800-669-5810) 8123 Page Blvd. - St.
Louis, MO 63130
Gateway is mostly modern stuff, but they have an isle or two that is quite
old stuff. Not great, but worth a look-see.
1 Oct
1 Oct
4:56 a.m.
New subject: Geek Destinations in St. Louis? (Also San Diego [slightly different topic])
Went to Gateway's address. They just moved! They're a few miles in the
opposite direction now, at 2220 Welsch Industrial Court. I'm glad I had
my GPS mapping system along, or we might never have found them. It's a
pretty obscure location. They were really happy to see customers finding
them at the new place, I think; two of them met us at the door, and one
more was waving to us out the window when we pulled up. Seems like a nice
bunch of folks. They'd moved all the new stuff, but all the old stuff was
still back at the old building. We were trying to get them to take us
over to look at it, but they were too busy getting things organized at the
new place. They may be having a big equipment sale soon, so keep an eye
out. Thanks for the good pointer! We also went to Jasper's Antique Radio
Museum, which was kind of neat, although Jasper is kind of a crotchety old
guy. Also found a great Indian buffet at the top of Howard Johnson's next
to the airport; if you get the chance, give it a try. Wonderful food,
reasonable prices, and a great view to boot.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, jim wrote:
Bill wrote...
The guys at gateway have the building next door full of inventory, and if you
get friendly with the right fellow at the counter, you can get a tour of that
building,
and see a bit of other stuff. Just ask what they have, and indicate you made
a special trip in from some distance and I have found they accomodate me
and dig a bit so that I don't miss any "new" stuff.
but then I've been coming there since they were on Delmar and Stu had just
started it (maybe 35 years ago).
Sadly Stu passed away a couple of years ago, and is sorely missed.
on a slightly different topic.
Gateway has a San Diego outlet that has some stuff, and there is also a place
nearby there worth seeing in San Diego called Industrial Liquidators.
I also dig out the listings for the guys in El Cajon when I go down there
junking.
Any other San diego places to see?
Jim
We'll be in St. Louis this weekend. Any good
museums, junk shops, or
other recommended geek destinations in the area? GPS coordinates happily
accepted. :-)
Two surplus places that I know of...
Gateway Electronics 314-427-6116 or (800-669-5810) 8123 Page Blvd. - St.
Louis, MO 63130
Gateway is mostly modern stuff, but they have an isle or two that is quite
old stuff. Not great, but worth a look-see.
2 Oct
2 Oct
12:27 p.m.
New subject: Geek Destinations in St. Louis? (Also San Diego [slightlydifferent topic])
there was a good barbeque place up on convoy that we stopped at.
Thanks for the heads up on the address, I'd have been lost or following
the maps and cusssing.
Also had not heard of the Jaspers, I'll look it up.
Also to run this topic into the ground, Dinner at the 94th aero
squadron (or whatever restaraunt is running in their building
next to the runway) is good. It is at Mongomery field, which is
adjacent to the 805 / 163 X crossing, and near these outlets.
Jim
Bill Richman wrote:
Went to Gateway's address. They just moved!
They're a few miles in the
opposite direction now, at 2220 Welsch Industrial Court.
<snip>
We also went to Jasper's Antique Radio
Museum, which was kind of neat, although Jasper is kind of a crotchety old
guy. Also found a great Indian buffet at the top of Howard Johnson's next
to the airport; if you get the chance, give it a try. Wonderful food,
reasonable prices, and a great view to boot.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, jim wrote:
<mucho thanks on the Jaspers tip>
Did you find the El Cajon places? I just looked in the yellow pages and
did a google search for "san diego electronic junk or such"
Jim
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