On 2025-01-09 14:55, Gary WB6OGD via groups.io wrote:
I believe that Electronics Plus is still in San Rafael now 55+ years
later than since we were in our high school amateur radio club?
*** Back in the Day, Electronics Plus was known as "Marty's Super Surplus Mart".
It was on Market street in San Francisco, in an area that I called "Radio Row".
Next door was "Standard Surplus". Down the street was San Francisco Radio ( basically,
a TV repair supply store ) and further down, Zack Electronics - which catered to the professional/engineering level. Leave Market street toward SoMa there was Lafayette
Electronics, and in that same area a block or so over - Olson Electronics.
I used to go down there on Saturday. First, I'd hit the main branch of the SF library. Back in the stacks, they had bound volumes of electonics and amateur radio magazines. I'd sit there with a big notebook and copy down schematics. They did have a zerox machine, that made reverse-color prints that smelled like alcohol. But it was alas beyond my means at ten cents a page.
Then I'd head out to Radio Row to browse for parts for the schematics I'd copied.
- Jerry, KF6VB ( back then, WN6EPS then WA6EPS )
