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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. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Studio Stores were a victim of the AOL-Time Warner merger, and shuttered operations in 2001. [71] Yellow Front Stores – Founded in the 1950s as an army surplus store, Yellow Front transitioned to become a camping gear retailer before going bankrupt in 1990.

5. 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.

6. 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 ...

7. List of United States military bases in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   List of United States military bases in Illinois is a listing of current and former United States military bases located in the US State of Illinois. Air Force [ edit ]