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- 1953-12-05
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Walter C. Davidson, standing row second from right, son of the co-founder of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Co., visited Northwest dealers on 12/5/1953 for an all day meeting at the Winthrop Hotel. The dealers are posed around the 1954 model Harley-Davidson motorcycle, the Golden Anniversary model. Harley-Davidson was celebrating fifty years of motorcycle design and production. In 1903, Davidson's father, Walter Davidson Sr., began making motorcycles in a small shop in Milwaukee. By 1953, the endeavor had grown into a plant that produced 40,000 motorcycles a year. (TNT 12/6/1953, pg. A-10) TPL-8194
Motorcycles; Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Co. (Milwaukee);