Recommend any Surplus i.e Army Stores in Bay Area?

[spex]

Hello Fellow Calgunners,
Any recommendations on any Army/Navy Military Surplus Stores in the Bay Area? I'm looking for thing's such as parkas, tents, small item cool things. Basically wanting to find a place to check out. If you have any suggestions, please post Name of Place and Address if you know it. Thanks all!!!

[XYZ]

I'm on by mobile right now but if you Google for this in San Jose there's a surplus store by Valley Fair. I'll edit my post later to add the info.

[cqbdude]

Mountain View surplus in Mtn View...

Stevens creek Surplus in San Jose..

[icsam]

I like going to Mountain View Surplus in Campbell myself.
XYZ is talking about Stevens Creek Surplus which is north of Valley Fair.

[till44]

There is a real small one in Berkeley on San Pablo, between Gilman and University.

[Rascal]

What about the place on Bascom Ave next to the Prune yard.

[doughboy334]

There's one in Montara that I passed by on my motorcycle, didn't stop to go in though.

[Thrasher416]

There is a real small one in Berkeley on San Pablo, between Gilman and University.

2nd that one, it's bigger than it looks from outside and is packed with goodies.

I'd recommend going there mid morning however, no traffic and in the afternoon the code pink and other such types start to come out in the street. They used to give a couple friends of mine a bunch of crap because they would wear bdu trousers and had crew cuts.

Go in the morning and don't dress tactical and you'll be fine.

[stilagrrl]

Mt. View Surplus is OK, although I've never really found anything that exciting there. I picked up some over-priced ammo cans and MREs there, but not much else. I came across a good outdoor store this past weekend. It's called the Redwood Trading Post in Redwood City on El Camino Real. The have a decent selection of Benchmade knives, a very well stocked camping section (Primus, Optimus, MSR, Jetboil, GSI, Nalgene, Kleen Canteen, Adventure Medical, Mountain House, North Face, etc), water barrels in various sizes, Carhartt work clothes and so on. I thought their prices were pretty decent as well. Anyway, I plan on going back to explore the store a bit more this weekend.

[spex]

Thanks so very Much for ALL your input, I'm writing down a list and I'll be doing some Recon of these shops in a few weeks. Thanks again.....

[echo1]

In Fremont, on Washington near the intersection of Fremont Blvd. Used to be Jack & Pats in the '60s & '70s, on Thornton in Newark. Now it's just "Surplus", and Jacks' still hangn' in there. It's ligit milsurp, NATO & Warsaw Pact. A few WWII, Korea, Nam era items & newer Gulf surp. One of the best true surplus stores left, buys from base warehouses. He has stuff carried over from the old place (14 yrs at previous spot - 17yrs in Fremont). Bayos, .45 mags & pouches, flight suits, lots of militaria. Used external frame backpacks of all makes and quality, survival gear, books and manuals. I think he was a pirate or sometin' like that back in the day. No guns.

[spaceburger]

Victory Stores in Vallejo. Very cool stuff!

http://www.victorystores.net/

[spex]

echo1 that's seems like a place I would like to go to.... i'll have to find it.
I'll to do a SITREP when I check out this places. Thanks again for the input.

[spaceburger]

echo1 ...I'll to do a SITREP when I check out this places. Thanks again for the input.

Let me know when you plan on going (during regular work week), I work about 10 minutes away and will meet you there... lots of old stuff upstairs!

[spex]

Thanks spaceburger, but my Recon will have to be on the weekends. I work on M-F....