Marine Specialties has been a Provincetown landmark for over 50 years. Often known simply as "the army-navy store," Marine Specialties is an eclectic treasure trove of salvage, surplus, slight IRs, closeouts, overruns, misprints, mistakes, spare parts, odd lots, cast-offs, and new and nearly-new items. Over time it's grown to be the kind of jumbled, inclusive, and eccentric "army-navy" store Provincetown deserves. Many people young and old call this their favorite shop.
"Commercial Street is home to a slew of souvenir joints, galleries, and home decor shops—but none hold a candle to this wacky hole in the wall, a Provincetown institution for 55 years. It's difficult to put Marine Specialties into a single category; it's part military surplus, part tchotchke shop, part nautical knick-knack, and everything in between. You can find old life jackets, nautical rope, every sort of shell accessory, Provincetown T-shirts, and all sorts of crazy-cool objets. The antique mermaid-shaped ship figureheads lying around would make for one heckuva of a souvenir." - Todd Plummer
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