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This officially made the "ten speed" cool for me .

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John Fogerty grew up in the town a few hundred meters to the north of me, El Cerrito California.

Back in the Spanish land grant days El Cerrito and my town of Albany were part of the same parcel.

Ironically El Cerrito (the little hill) is named for what is termed in English Albany Hill, although Albany Hill is not within the city limits nor even the same county.

When it was decided to split the parcel in two El Cerrito ended up as the southwestern most municipality of the county of Contra Costa and Albany the most northwestern one of the county of Alameda. So their border is also a county one.

One other famous El Cerritoan is the film maker Les Blank, creator of Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic...as_Ten_Mothers

the city is also the resting place for American actor Robert Culp, although he grew up in neighbouring Berkeley California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Culp


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Son... you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln!

That song predates the band by a decade or more. Original release by Charlie Ryan, as far as I know. First record I bought.

^^ That's a rare photo of John Wayne. :thumb:
I remember that album cover and the music is timeless. Also :thumb:

Geeze...... My oldest brother had that record in the early 70's.....
I can't forget that album cover. I could not relate to the music being so young, but something about the "Cosmo's Factory" title on the album cover attracted me to it.....

Yea , I think it was a Schwinn Varsity and I was riding a root beer brown one at that time and thought I was cool when I got the record and became validated.

Tim Weisberg owned a Colnago ( and a full Campagnolo tool kit)


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I think I got all the Bonds.
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Bill was an importer/rep for Hetchins frames for awhile in the 1980's.

Anyone see Get Back on Disney+?


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Saw it! Good catch!

Celeb ? No doubt .
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/31/5f/eb/3...7b1db20c46.jpg

Also a great collection. :thumb:

And has been played by many bands, I've heard it blues fests in Toronto, Kalamazoo, Chicago, and Detroit..

Well, I did miss one "Bonds".

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I follow him on Strava. He does a lot of nice climbing rides in the Marin Headlands.

George has 10 beautiful routes all worked out, but Paul and John say he's already had his 2 routes this trip, so maybe next time.

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Bob

Hmph! This didn't come up in thread search. Henry Ford:


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Before he was America's most famous automobile racer, Barney Oldfield raced bikes:


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Dillon...

Sloping top tube.

Don't know if he qualifies as a celebrity - however, there are streets, coins and stamps dedicated to him and he certainly deserves to be.


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