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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

MP Surplus Pinkard Alabama

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There are some places that simply defy description. Places that in their utter uniqueness, their obtuse oddness, in their arcane audacity don't fit into a category. One such place is MP Surplus in the small farming hamlet of Pinkard Alabama. Domiciled in the gutted remains of a one-hundred year old feed mill (the mill's brick tower collapsed a few years back and now a wooden partition prevents entrance into the most ancient showrooms) about 10 miles north of Dothan Alabama in the south east corner of the state, MP Surplus may be the only mlitary surplus outlet in the nation that has its very own Iron lung (Those machines used in the 50's to breath for the victims of polio that swept the youth of America like rock and roll. More Later!