Apex Surplus – A movie industry props and parts source

I've spent way, way too many hours digging through piles of old missile casings and used nuclear lab equipment at Apex.

Most of the screen-accurate parts on my old car came from Apex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBo1DvKzRJ4

Apex was the source for many, many Hollywood propmasters.

I think I had to go to Black Hole for the last of all the original Ghostbusters parts, though: (sadly now closed)

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/18130

I remember flying back from LA one time with a suitcase filled with bomb-looking parts from Apex and setting off some sort of explosives detector at LAX, probably from the toxic dust covering all the parts. First Wife ran off laughing while I got surrounded by security :D

I remember after the earthquake (94) they just left the massive pile of wire and youd have to ask the guy to go climb up the pile. RIP All Electronics, Electronics City (burbank). Even Frys is closed now. Is Torrance Electronics still there? Los angeles used to have an aerospace industry after ww2 there was so much. TRW swapmeet was insane. I'm a 40 something now so I only saw it fade away. Rocketdyne is a mall, General Motors Van Nuys is a mall. They shipped everything to Japan then to China over the intervening years so now these surplus things are in akihabara and the shenzhen markets now where production is done.