1954 California's Calico Ghost Town - 2-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article

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1954 California's Calico Ghost Town - 2-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
FOR the white collar guy who is tied
to a pencil all day long in the boiler
room temperature—cement compound
of a city, life can sometimes be unbear-
able. Four such hombres in the City of
Angeles, decided to do something about
the situation and escape from it all.
Means for this belated excursion took
the form of four Harley-Davidson mo-
torcycles. With cars getting larger,
roads seem to shrink into an inferno of
overcrowdedness. Motoring in this man-
ner seems to put one back in the saddle
of the outmoded horse. In this style
you have access to all of the trails and
paths plus that part of the country still
unclaimed by subdividers.
Among the four adventurers was a
friendly school teacher by the name of
Grant Telfer. Grant rides a H-D 61"
and is quite avid in enthusiasm toward
the use of the motorcycle as a means
of relaxation. To add a bit of diversion
to the scene we have a local magazine
art editor, who, as the grey hairs began
to overtake the black ones, decided on
the motorcycle to “get away from it
all.” To show it’s never too late we had
the pleasant company of 36-year-old
Royal Wright, who is a lab technician...
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