ncle Dave L. Marks W2APF *1903-1992*
Founder of Operation Goodwill, Uncle Dave’s
Obit in QST April 1992 page 64. He was a OOTC
member 517, starting out in pioneer radio as 2APF in
1923. Honorary Life member of Albany AmateurRadio Club, NY K2CT - also the SchenectadyAmateur radio Assn. Active on 2 and 10 Meter
mobile operations.

UDave’s life long pursuit, the radio communications
business. Long time owner of Ft. Orange Radio well known Albany area radio distributer. Large mailorder business as he advertised in most radio/tv
publications. His familiar cigar and cartoon character
probably done by Otto
Eppers W2EA.
Another Boat Anchor
haunt was in Pittsburgh,PA. There was one
notorious surplus placecalled Paul’s Surplus. The
proprietor was Paul
Warhola 1927-1993 - Who
was the Pop artist Andy
Warhol’s brother! Paul’sbusiness was in an oldhouse which is still there
on busy route 88.
There was a decrepit Nash
Rambler automobile permanently parked outside, beside the entrance. Bare light bulbs hungoverhead over rows of dime store style counters loaded with parts and subassemblies of every kindof discernable surplus goody.
There was an assortment of Commercial mobile radio gear and ham gear.
Paul had a assortment of old 3-dialers and horn speakers on display. Don Merz said “They werepresumed for sale but no one ever bought one.” I hung out at Paul’s in the 60s and eventually hired
me to clean out the estates that he was buying. We’d pull up in a flat bed truck with tall woodensides and “carefully” stack all of the gear and boxes of parts on the truck.
Sometimes the estate would include Hi-Fi gear and we’d stop at Paul’s house to drop that off insteadof taking it to the store. Paul’s did a booming business while I was around and was a gathering place
for hams, Merz said. Metz graduated H.S. and moved away. When he returned Paul’s was gone andnever knew what happened to the business. We’re not giving up on this interesting gent.
Thru the Web we’ve found a few items about what became of Paul Warhola thru the TribuneReview Our subject got into the Scrap Metals Industry on Penn Avenue in which his son took overin 1984. Paul retired to poultry farming. ContinuedIn 1989 Paul began painting in the family tradition of silk-screen painting. Like Andy, Paul painted
baked bean and tomato sauce cans among other items but they were not the quality of his famous
brother. To sell them Paul was happy to sign them “Andy Warhol’s brother.”Another Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article “Warhol gets more than 15-minute span.” Paul Warhola
believes that in some odd way, Friday’s renaming of the Seventh Street Bridge and the location ofthe museum dedicated to his brother Andy Warhol were somehow foretold when Andy was age 8.
“One day in 1936, when the trolleys weren’t running because of the big floods we had here, ourmother decided we would walk from Oakland to visit our Aunt Mary in Fineview,” said Warhola
82, of West Homestead. We walked to downtown, then crossed the (Seventh Street) bridge. All of
the sudden, Andy stopped and said he wasn’t walking anymore and sat down on the steps of thisbuilding to take a rest. I don’t know if he sensed that there would be a connection someday, but after
all these years, here we are, Warhola said.
The world famous pop artist was born Andrew
Warhola in Pittsburgh in 1928. The bridge renaming
ceremony yesterday morning on the North Shore sideof the span - on Sandusky Street, home of the Andy
Warhol Museum – drew several hundred people whowere treated to displays b y local performance artists
and a show by students studying musical theater at thePittsburgh High School for the Creative andPerforming Arts. Pictured is our subject, Paul Warhol
just before his death. Credit AF4K for Don Merz
material. Pittsburghlive.com W8JYZ for Uncle Davematerial from his 1933 Amateur Call Book.