Mine still lives in my basement minus the original handlebars, fenders and tires. Road it around campus as college student and then for exercise back in the 70’s and 80’s when I lived out in the country. It is still very usable if I had anywhere to ride here in the big city. Bought it with money I earned tossing papers on front porches during those early morning hours. My first major purchase. Bought it from the local hardware store at $5 per week which was a lot of money for a 12 year old kid in 1963.
I inherited mine from my two older brothers. That’s how it was for me. I was one in a family of seven kids and things like a bike were ‘’handed down’’. I was tossing the morning papers on peoples porches as a 12 year-old in ‘68. Man, that was a lifetime ago. That America doesn’t exist anymore.