Actually, we have a place here in Phoenix called "Apache Reclamation and Electronics" that is THE electronics graveyard; I've been going there for almost 20 years, and I think they've been around for at least double that. Its one of those places that isn't very well lit, where you're as apt to find spiders as you are parts, and sometimes, if you look carefully, you can find stuff that could almost be declared hazardous.
I found my Altair there, for instance.
They have an amazing back-room cache of vacuum tubes that no one ever seems to purchase; most is NOS-in-box (new-old stock). Sometimes you can pick up things for scrap value; I once bought a co-mingled box of various parts for $80.00 (scrap price) that if I wanted to, I could probably turn around and resell for five time that.
They have a 25 watt CO2 laser the size of refrigerator just sitting, waiting for somebody fool enough to take it home.
At one time they had an entire back open-yard area just filled to the brim with crazy stuff (large and scary crazy stuff); they moved that yard to a new location on lower Buckeye road, IIRC.
I once had a chance to buy a nice lab-grade industrial robot for $200.00, but I passed it up because I didn't have the money; I shoulda bought it in hindsight.
Even so; I would love to have a place I could go where there were stalls upon stalls of vendors (akin to the fashion district in LA - but more like an indoor mall) selling new and bulk electronics goods of today's vintage, with some colorful other junk thrown in, and maybe food vendors and such; a geek's paradise mall, if you will.
These places in the far-east Asian countries are just like that, from what I have read, heard, and seen online; we have nothing like that here in the States, and likely never will. Its something I think that is part of the culture, and our culture here unfortunately doesn't value this kind of stuff, but rather stuff that geeks don't generally identify with (fashion, fads, popular culture, etc). I don't see this changing any time soon.
Oh well...
BTW - found the online site: http://www.intertexelectronics.com/