I remember after the earthquake (94) they just left the massive pile of wire and youd have to ask the guy to go climb up the pile.
RIP All Electronics, Electronics City (burbank). Even Frys is closed now. Is Torrance Electronics still there?
Los angeles used to have an aerospace industry after ww2 there was so much. TRW swapmeet was insane. I'm a 40 something now so I only saw it fade away. Rocketdyne is a mall, General Motors Van Nuys is a mall. They shipped everything to Japan then to China over the intervening years so now these surplus things are in akihabara and the shenzhen markets now where production is done.
Going behind that big pile of fallen stuff once, and finding a whole box of NOS switches that people had been searching for, for years, for some prop replicas. I damned near soiled myself. I think Torrance was there last time I was part-hunting, but that was 10 years ago.
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I remember after the earthquake (94) they just left the massive pile of wire and youd have to ask the guy to go climb up the pile. RIP All Electronics, Electronics City (burbank). Even Frys is closed now. Is Torrance Electronics still there? Los angeles used to have an aerospace industry after ww2 there was so much. TRW swapmeet was insane. I'm a 40 something now so I only saw it fade away. Rocketdyne is a mall, General Motors Van Nuys is a mall. They shipped everything to Japan then to China over the intervening years so now these surplus things are in akihabara and the shenzhen markets now where production is done.
Going behind that big pile of fallen stuff once, and finding a whole box of NOS switches that people had been searching for, for years, for some prop replicas. I damned near soiled myself. I think Torrance was there last time I was part-hunting, but that was 10 years ago.