See if there’s a ham club in your area! We held swap meets when I was in Edison, I think they probably still do. Radio is such a community based thing that swap meets and other sort of informal gatherings are still super common.
And, for the topic of the thread: I haven’t been doing any radio since I moved to London (been way too busy!) but I still have my dad’s Hallicrafters SX-28 in a box for safekeeping 