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Jerry Rich, a Russian immigrant living in Salem, Massachusetts, established Jerry's Army-Navy Surplus in 1929. [1] [2] Rich's was founded in 1961 by Rich, his sons Bennett and Howard and his son-in-law Joel Saxe. [3] [4] Similar to chain stores like Ames and Bradlee's, the chain offered discounted brand-name merchandise.
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.
Navy Enlistment: An Analysis of Military Entrance Processing Stations Medical Failures. Naval Postgraduate School. 1997. Assessing Fitness for Military Enlistment: Physical, Medical, and Mental Health Standards. National Academies Press. 27 February 2006. ISBN 978-0-309-16487-0. Budahn, P. J. (30 September 2000).
Built in 1951 and opened in 1955, the facility is situated on an Army-owned 8,500-acre (34 km 2) site on the banks of the Cape Fear River in Brunswick and New Hanover counties of North Carolina approximately 16 miles (26 km) south of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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.
Concord Naval Weapons Station was a military base established in 1942 north of the city of Concord, California at the shore of the Sacramento River where it widens into Suisun Bay. The station functioned as a World War II armament storage depot , supplying ships at Port Chicago .
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Highpoint Trading was the parent company for Famous Army Stores and Limocoat, formed as a vehicle for a management buy-out in 1996. The management buy-out was undertaken. The chain then rapidly grew from 100 shops to 200, with a turnover of £50 million and profits of £2.2 million in 1998. [ 3 ]