Original Message: ----------------- From: Chuck Schmidt chuckschmidt@earthlink.net Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:17:45 -0700 To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Boutique buying in the classic era -- Not quite the same!
"As has been pointed out by Phil Brown, Hans Ohrt introduced lightweight bikes to the Hollywood stars from his Beverly Hills bike shop in the late 1930s."
Indeed. And British Export News (the really, really good publication devoted to British cycle and motorcycle exports in the 1950s and 1960s) never once failed to have a photo showing them with their new mount outsid e Ohrt's including Jose Ferrer c. 1950 with his new Elswick Hooper. And that looked like no bike shop I ever remember growing up in Washington in the 1960s. More like a car dealership, swank and professional. 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.
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
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