[CR]Late 1970s/Early 1980s Mail-Order Catalogs Online!

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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:36:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bill Courtney" <billcourtney@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: Bill Courtney <billcourtney@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CR]Late 1970s/Early 1980s Mail-Order Catalogs Online!

Hey everyone,

I just started scanning my collection of old bike mail-order catalogs (which I got new in the mail when I was a teenager), and wanted to share them with enthusiasts. So I put them online.

Right now they are in my Flickr pages, because it's a free server for me to host them on. You can view the original scanned sizes of each page by:

1. Clicking on an individual thumbnail 2. Click the "All Sizes" tab above the image 3. Click the "Original 1276 x 1650" tab above that size (larger than life)

A pain in the behind to view, but ... hey ... it's free.

If anyone wishes to host the full-size scans on an enthusiast's webpage (such as Classic Rendezvous, hint-hint) feel free to copy the images from Flickr and do so. Or I can arrange to burn them on a CD and send them to you.

Here they are:

Bikecology 1980 Catalog http://www.flickr.com/photos/zbillster/sets/72157606604615757/

Bikecology 1976 Catalog http://www.flickr.com/photos/zbillster/sets/72157606789001880/

Bike Warehouse (a.k.a. Nashbar) Catalog #12 1978 http://www.flickr.com/photos/zbillster/sets/72157606758312921/

Palo Alto Bicycles 1976 Catalog http://www.flickr.com/photos/zbillster/sets/72157606768178266/

I'm going to scan one more Palo Alto catalog between 1977 and 1983 with better illustrations ... I haven't decided which one yet. Coming soon!

Enjoy! There's fun stuff in there.

Bill Courtney Dallas, Texas Former employee of Mike Hall's Bike Mart in Oak Cliff, late 1970s