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  2. Academy Sports + Outdoors - Wikipedia

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    Academy Sports + Outdoors came into existence in 1938, [5] when Arthur Gochman and his business partner purchased Southern Sales, a San Antonio-based Army-Navy surplus chain comprising six stores that were by that year no longer making any profit. At the time, Gochman was a practicing attorney in San Antonio.

  3. Military surplus - Wikipedia

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    This required mass-produced wears and arms for both sides. After the war, to recoup some money, they sold the supplies in stores. Thus the military surplus store was born. In the 1870s, Francis Bannerman VI operated "Bannerman's surplus". [4] His surplus company was one of the largest ever to operate.

  4. Surplus store - Wikipedia

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    The Van Nuys Army & Navy Surplus Store, a former surplus store in Los Angeles, California, United States. A surplus store or disposals store is a business that sells items and goods that are used, purchased but unused, or past their use by date, and are no longer needed due to excess supply, decommissioning, or obsolescence.

  5. Oshman's Sporting Goods - Wikipedia

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    In 1919, [3] J.S. "Jake" Oshman, an immigrant from Latvia, [4] opened a store, Oshman's Dry Goods, in Richmond, Texas. In 1931 he moved to Houston by buying the stock of a bankrupt army-surplus store known as Crawford-Austin and liquidated its inventory. He discovered in the process that sporting goods, especially fishing and hunting supplies ...

  6. Lawnchair Larry flight - Wikipedia

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    In mid-1982, Walters and his then girlfriend, Carol Van Deusen, purchased 45 eight-foot (2.4 m) weather balloons from a military surplus store [5] and helium tanks from California Toy Time Balloons. They used a forged requisition from his employer, FilmFair Studios , saying the balloons were for a television commercial.

  7. Wichita’s last military surplus store is gone, but one place ...

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    Earlier this year, I reported that the city’s last military surplus store, G.I. Rose Military Surplus Etc. at 6310 E. Harry, was in danger of closing if the owner couldn’t find a buyer to take ...

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