Pete Kohler said:
Most
> cycle
> shops
> I remember were staffed with skinny high school boys working off their
> Raleigh Pro purchase with the always gruff owner telling them to stop
> goofing off talking bikes and sell one. That, too, hasn't changed
> either.
> At least around here.
The first shop I worked in had an owner so gruff that the mechanics were not allowed to talk while they worked except concerning immediate business! He sat sourly on a stool and watched while you worked. I was only biding my time until a new shop opened where I had a job commitment, but that place was horrible. Reidinger's, Montclair NJ. Claimed to be the states largest Schwinn dealer at the time. That is hard to believe with Ridgewood Cycle and Saling's in the state. Now that I think back to unloading the tractor trailers, they sure did sell plenty though.
Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ (Skinny high school kid saving for a bike at the time)
>
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\r?\n> Original Message:
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\r?\n> From: Chuck Schmidt chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
\r?\n> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:17:45 -0700
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR]Boutique buying in the classic era -- Not quite
\r?\n> the same!
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> "As has been
\r?\n> pointed out by Phil Brown, Hans Ohrt introduced lightweight bikes
\r?\n> to
\r?\n> the Hollywood stars from his Beverly Hills bike shop in the late
\r?\n> 1930s."
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Indeed. And British Export News (the really, really good publication
\r?\n> devoted to British cycle and motorcycle exports in the 1950s and
\r?\n> 1960s)never once failed to have a photo showing them with their
\r?\n> new mount outsid
\r?\n> e
\r?\n> Ohrt's including Jose Ferrer c. 1950 with his new Elswick Hooper.
\r?\n> And
\r?\n> that
\r?\n> looked like no bike shop I ever remember growing up in Washington
\r?\n> in the
\r?\n> 1960s. More like a car dealership, swank and professional. >
\r?\n> Peter Kohler
\r?\n> Washington DC USA
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