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Howdy..... I have a bit of info for you guys......
Back about 1953-4 I went into Bannermans at 501 Broadway in NYC. I was with my cousin Michael.. He lived on the East side,,,around East 4th Street -- I lived down on Staten Island = my grandmother lived at 35 Grove Street.
At the time, the man running the store was named Jim...Jimmy. He was physically impaired. He had a hard time moving around. I wanted a CW Musket -- model 1861. Jim let me dig around and find a decent 1862 Springfield - which was actually a beauty. I still have it, along with a dozen others....and lots of misc CW bits and pieces - thanks to Jim. He let my run all over the store -- building - upstairs also. Hard time getting through the rooms... I helped him quite a few times... On the first landing - between the 1st and second floors.....there were 2 dummies , 1 on the left - one on the right... fully dressed in1600's suits of armor with swords. Jimmy told me to take them home....OUCH... I had no way to move them and simply no way to get them home... SAD indeed..... Worse yet, about 1960, a neighbor on Staten Island travelled with me every day to work in NYC. I worked for a printing Company down near the Ferry - she worked a few blocks up for the Company that owned the Ship - TITANIC.. Gail Curren told me that the place was sort of being shut down..... In the lobby there was a huge perfectly detailed Large tugboat...about 7 feet long ---in glass)...AND a very very highly detailed model of TITANIC....it was in a large glass case....maybe 20 feet long...absolutely unreal... Gail told me to take them home.... WOW....sadly, how the hell can a guy haul something like that (them) home.....?? I should have taken the lifeboats or something from TITANIC...but, 21 years old and pretty fresh out of the NAVY.....not enough understanding of what the ship would mean down the road. A few days later, meeting Gail to go home..there they were - both Ship models in the huge dumpster outside the building...all busted up........What can I say,??? History down the drain.....
Back about 1953-4 I went into Bannermans at 501 Broadway in NYC. I was with my cousin Michael.. He lived on the East side,,,around East 4th Street -- I lived down on Staten Island = my grandmother lived at 35 Grove Street.
At the time, the man running the store was named Jim...Jimmy. He was physically impaired. He had a hard time moving around. I wanted a CW Musket -- model 1861. Jim let me dig around and find a decent 1862 Springfield - which was actually a beauty. I still have it, along with a dozen others....and lots of misc CW bits and pieces - thanks to Jim. He let my run all over the store -- building - upstairs also. Hard time getting through the rooms... I helped him quite a few times... On the first landing - between the 1st and second floors.....there were 2 dummies , 1 on the left - one on the right... fully dressed in1600's suits of armor with swords. Jimmy told me to take them home....OUCH... I had no way to move them and simply no way to get them home... SAD indeed..... Worse yet, about 1960, a neighbor on Staten Island travelled with me every day to work in NYC. I worked for a printing Company down near the Ferry - she worked a few blocks up for the Company that owned the Ship - TITANIC.. Gail Curren told me that the place was sort of being shut down..... In the lobby there was a huge perfectly detailed Large tugboat...about 7 feet long ---in glass)...AND a very very highly detailed model of TITANIC....it was in a large glass case....maybe 20 feet long...absolutely unreal... Gail told me to take them home.... WOW....sadly, how the hell can a guy haul something like that (them) home.....?? I should have taken the lifeboats or something from TITANIC...but, 21 years old and pretty fresh out of the NAVY.....not enough understanding of what the ship would mean down the road. A few days later, meeting Gail to go home..there they were - both Ship models in the huge dumpster outside the building...all busted up........What can I say,??? History down the drain.....
