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When I was a kid we used to raid the dumpsters behind the Philips warehouse/office a few miles away. There was a big service depot there and they always tossed out the coolest stuff. The official target was big Philips/DeForest woofers with fried voice coils that could be re-wound and built into speakers -- we could afford the tweeters and midranges but the big woofers were always too many $$ for a kid on a paper route.

They didn't have big piles of woofers but "the dumpster behind a national audio/video service depot" makes a pretty good image too. Televisions, shortwave radios, test equipment, you name it and they tossed it. If you want an amusing image, remember that the depot was a few miles away so we had to bring all this stuff home on bicycles...