T-Mar: Of course, what you really need to do next year, on your birthday, is restage the photo. Having 35 year, "then and now" photos would be so cool. OK, maybe it would only have been "cool" in 1973. I'm not sure what the relevant terminology is these days. "

Thea: Haha! I will definitely have to do that; what a great idea! It would be very "cool", or as they seem to say these days..... "that would be so SICK". LOL

T-Mar: It was a long shot, but the reason I asked is that some of the bigger shops placed classified ads in the bicycling magazines. Often these ads named the brands that the store carried. I went through my stash from that period and could only find one Montana bicycle shop, Braxton's in Missoula.

Thea: I am definitely going to check out the Havre Library when I'm up there for Christmas! I will look for the old phone books. I also lived in Missoula (in fact that's where I had the bike painted) and recall the Braxton name. What was the address?