A Salt Lake City bicycle concern has closed one of its locations that was proclaimed as the oldest bike shop in the western United States.
Guthrie Bicycle closed its downtown location at East 200th South in January. Housed in a three-story building erected in 1890, a sign in the window said Guthrie's was opened in 1904.
Kiril Kundurazieff's Cycling Dude blog lists old bike shops, and the shop closure in Salt Lake City would make Jones Bicycles (established 1910) in Long Beach, California, the oldest in the West.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Guthrie's Sugar House neighborhood location, at 803 E. 2100 South, remains open.
Shop owner Richard Goddard said he spent a lot of his youth at the downtown store, counting inventory at age 10 and building bikes two years later. His great-grandfather bought the building in the 1930s and moved the bike shop into it. Here's a link to a Guthrie bike shop history.
For those of you interested in old bike shops, the Cycling Dude lists nearly 20 on his website that have been in business since before 1941. If you have any suggestions for the list, visit his website and let him know.
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