Bicycle shop stickers

[Oilit]

Good afternoon Caber’s !
I was removing some black paint the was on the seat post tube on this 49 and found this! Spokane cycle and toy shop N. 217 post st. This address doesn’t even exist.?

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I'm amazed you got the paint off without destroying the decal!

 

[Oilit]

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perhaps building got demolished, along with one or more adjacent ones, and the new building constructed on the site was given a differing number

knew someone who operated a shop in Spokie during roughly the 1970's & 1980's - Jim Britain, but never knew name of shop...


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Looks like you're right. Post St. in Spokane is just two little stubs with the Spokane Arena taking up several city blocks right in the middle, according to Google Maps.

 

[friendofthedevil]

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BER WYNNN?!?!

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[Autocycleplane]

 

[Lookn4bikes]

Here is Nelson's in Boise today with a local riders bike that was purchased there.

 

[Lookn4bikes]

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Love to see the rest of the bicycle.

 

[barneyguey]

Here is Nelson's in Boise today with a local riders bike that was purchased there.

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Do you know what badge it has? Thank you. Barry

 

[Lookn4bikes]

Pretty sure it has the Ace badge.

 

[Autocycleplane]

Love to see the rest of the bicycle.

 

[Schwinn Sales West]

Does anyone know where this shop is located? Dick and Tom lived in Cali so I assume the shop is located somewhere around were they lived or worked. If I'm correct in guessing the shop name it's Willows. The sign is blocking one letter and I can make out WILL and WS on the other wall.

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This Schwinn Dealership was featured on the back page of the August 1959 Schwinn Reporter. The photo is almost exactly like the photo above but without the Smothers Brothers on Sting Rays. It reads Jack Willows had been a Schwinn Dealer since 1934. His store was in Las Vegas, NV. The store located at N. Main St and Park was 25 by 70 feet (1750 sq. ft.) and he made the Schwinn 500 sales club during 1958. He stocked 100 Schwinn's at all times. The Spitfire and the American were his best sellers. He had been in the bicycle business for 30 years at that point.

I called on Schwinn dealers in Las Vegas many years later and did not know Jack Willows. By the 1980's the Schwinn dealers were Arjac's on the west side of town, and Las Vegas Schwinn on Boulder Hwy. After Arjac's and Las Vegas Schwinn closed, Jim Martinez at Bike World was the Schwinn dealer with his two stores.

John