Originally Posted by
JonBailey
Is that you in about the year 1975?
Was that picture taken with a Kodak Instamatic, a Brownie Hawkeye camera or a Polaroid One Step?
'76 I believe. I traded in a mint condition Schwinn Stingray 5 speed with the tall (and soon to be outlawed) Stick Shift for the Record. The shop gave me $65 for it. The owner rolled it right out on the sales floor when I brought it in... it needed absolutely nothing and didn't even have a scratch! A few days later, I stopped in and saw they had it tagged for $85. I wish I still had that Stingray, but there was no way I could have gotten the Record without the trade in $$.
A couple of years later I got a job at the same shop repairing bikes. It lasted one summer, I was cut in the fall. Great experience and memories.
I had both the Kodak 110 Instamatic, and a Polaroid. By the looks of it I think the pic above was taken by the later.
Yes, I had a small collection of Rat Fink iron on Tee's!
