No Paramounts were built in the Waterford facility in the early-mid 70's as it didn't exist then - I'm not up on my Paramount history, but Waterford I think was set up very late 70's or early 80's.
Now, there were some Paramounts during the bike boom years that were built off site on contract, but that is a different story.
Mike Kone in Boulder CO
> Hi all,
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\r?\n> Was in a friend's bike shop today, and saw a nice Paramount track bike
\r?\n> sitting in the back. It's way too big for me, but I asked anyway, as we
\r?\n> all would.
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\r?\n> He told me that it was built in 1973, in Chicago and that it was one of
\r?\n> only ten Paramount tracks bikes built there instead of the Waterford
\r?\n> facility. The only serial number I could find was on a dropout, and is F
\r?\n> 7541.
\r?\n> On the bottom of the bb shell are two identical stamps that resemble,
\r?\n> for lack of a better description, tulips. These are about the size of
\r?\n> the usual serial number characters (maybe 1 cm or a bit smaller).
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\r?\n> The owner has had this bike since the early 80's and bought it from the
\r?\n> original owner who gave him the provenance.
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\r?\n> Could there be something to this apparently rare bike? Is it a rare
\r?\n> bike? I don't want to break the heart of a fellow bike owner, but I'm
\r?\n> curious nonetheless.
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\r?\n> Thanks!
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\r?\n> Greg Overton
\r?\n> now looking at bikes that don't even fit in
\r?\n> Salt Lake City, Utah