1952 hetchins assembly update

[1motime]

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That would be Harding's Westwood Cyclery on Westwood Boulevard - just a few blocks south of the UCLA campus.

In addition to Hetchins the shop was an agent for Raleigh, Carlton & Peugeot. They also had a house brand Harding badge, cycles produced for them by Holdsworthy.

Charlie Harding closed the shop about 1990-91 and moved back home to Ireland for his retirement.

Purchased me first road machine there in 1965 - a white Peugeot model U08.

The loft above the cash register was a wonderful repository for many first quality vintage framesets and fittings.


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Thanks for helping my memory. Harding's. Yes. I was sort of ignorant back then but I recognized beautiful bikes. Rode my Ideor everywhere for miles back then. That neighborhood has seen some major changes! That traffic is not for bikes anymore!

 

[Frank and Pam Skid Kings]

Nice bike Mark.

 

[redline1968]

Thanks. I still have the bottle clamp and large orig rear and front canvas bag for it too..posted later..It is cycle art for sure.

Nice bike Mark.

 

[juvela]

Thanks for helping my memory. Harding's. Yes. I was sort of ignorant back then but I recognized beautiful bikes. Rode my Ideor everywhere for miles back then. That neighborhood has seen some major changes! That traffic is not for bikes anymore!

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Did me undergraduate at UCLA back in the mid-1960's (when dinosaurs still roamed the earth!).

Today one almost needs to be a Farsi speaker to negotiate Westwood. In the greater Los Angeles area each immigrant group seems to select one town in which to congregate; and for the Persians it is Westwood.

What model was your Ideor (one o' me fave marques)? Have owned four road and one track from maker Torello.

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