Hey everyone,
I just started scanning my collection of old bike mail-order catalogs (which I got new in the mail when I was a teenager), and wanted to share them with enthusiasts. So I put them online.
Right now they are in my Flickr pages, because it's a free server for me to host them on. You can view the original scanned sizes of each page by:
1. Clicking on an individual thumbnail 2. Click the "All Sizes" tab above the image 3. Click the "Original 1276 x 1650" tab above that size (larger than life)
A pain in the behind to view, but ... hey ... it's free.
If anyone wishes to host the full-size scans on an enthusiast's webpage (such as Classic Rendezvous, hint-hint) feel free to copy the images from Flickr and do so. Or I can arrange to burn them on a CD and send them to you.
Here they are:
Bikecology 1980 Catalog
http://www.flickr.com/
Bikecology 1976 Catalog
http://www.flickr.com/
Bike Warehouse (a.k.a. Nashbar) Catalog #12 1978
http://www.flickr.com/
Palo Alto Bicycles 1976 Catalog
http://www.flickr.com/
I'm going to scan one more Palo Alto catalog between 1977 and 1983 with better illustrations ... I haven't decided which one yet. Coming soon!
Enjoy! There's fun stuff in there.
Bill Courtney Dallas, Texas Former employee of Mike Hall's Bike Mart in Oak Cliff, late 1970s