Thanks for the 1958 issue of GUNS -- a real visit to yesteryear. About that time I was a college kid who scraped $35 together and ordered a .45 ACP/AR caliber 1917 Colt revolver, Parkerized and marked "US Property," from Ye Olde Hunter, aka Hunter's Haven. They sent it through the US mail, no questions asked. Yes, those were the good old days!
Many years later, after retirement, i worked part-time for Legacy Sports, the successor to Interarms, which was housed in the warehouse next to Hunters Haven, and got to know John Richards and his son Steve, who ran YOH/HH. John was full of great stories of buying WWII relics by the barrel from Sam Cummings of Interarms, unloading surplus parts and ammo from freight cars on the railroad tracks that ran down Union Street in Alexandria at the time. The shop and warehouse are long gone, gentrified into an upscale hotel and restaurant the last time I looked. Tempus fugit, and all that...
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