C.S. Smith Sporting Goods....

The Paso Robles Pioneer Museum.

C.S. Smith rode a big wheel bicycle from S.F. to Paso around 1900 and opened his sporting goods store. The store was in business until the early 1960's. At the time the store was closed, the inventory was put into storage. Until a few years ago, when it was donated to the museum. A vast collection of guns, both NOS and used, boxes of NOS bicycle parts as well as other sports supplies. The collection of mounts that hung in the store. An incredible amount of stock. It blows me away, that this stuff still happens. I would (as would everyone else) love to stumble across a storage space filled to the top with perfect NOS 1940's-50's products. Keep dreamin'....