MarvB
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I saw this the other day and it got me thinking about how much has changed since I was a kid. The Sears, Monkey Wards, and Western Auto catalogs were like bibles back then (50s & 60s). Bought my first .22 at Wards, first shotgun at W. Auto.
I always saved up for .22 ammo at the Sears store (where my sister worked and got a discount) and it only took bringing back a few a few racks of empty RC Colas or Fanta to buy a box of 50 Eley CB Caps I used in the .22 to shoot barn swallow on the ranch.
My oldest brother had a 1967 Wards Riverside 250 (made by Benelli)- 245 CC air cooled four stroke overhead valve single cylinder motor that produced a whopping 22 HP and was paired with a four speed transmission. It was his paper route bike. (mine was a banana seated Schwinn with a sissy bar on the back lol). Yup... things have changed