Hawthorne with rear facing dropouts, pre war? Post war? $300 in San Francisco

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This Hawthorne has been on Craigslist for a month at $300. Looks like someone converted from 1" skip tooth over the years. Hillyard on the front fender, owners name? Maybe bike from a war time manufacturing plant? Hillyard Chemical in the mid west? https://www.hillyard.com/History

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/bik/d/san-francisco-1942-hawthorn-hillyard/7936183569.html.