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The food was delicious and there were small, beaded lampshades on each table, which we would remove and wear on our heads as hats. In high school, I’d go on double-dates with my three best friends to Light of India (730 Bank St.) at least once a month. Best artisanal coffee shopsįiending coffee? Equator Coffee Westboro (412 Churchill Ave N.) is organic, fair trade and locally roasted, and The Ministry of Coffee (1013 Wellington St W.) in Hintonburg has both coffee AND beautiful, shiny, solid bike posts close by to strap Old Faithful to. But that’s okay! Because on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings there’s live jazz, so you can feel real fancy, too. It overlooks the Parliament Buildings, the Fairmont Château Laurier, the Ottawa River, the National Gallery of Canada and people making you jealous by having fun on their boats. If you’re looking for food and drinks and fresh air and a very gorgeous, very Ottawa view, you should head to Tavern on the Hill (1223 Alexandra Bridge). Photo: © Taylor Burk Photography Best summer patio
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Ottawa's ByWard Market is a hub of farm-fresh goods, eclectic shops and restaurants. This cookie shot to superstardom when a certain Barack Obama visited the bakery, ate the cookie (then probably just called “The Regular ol’ Maple Leaf-Shaped Cookie That Says ‘Canada’ On It”) and exclaimed, “I love this country.” Follow in his footsteps! Escape the madness! Eat what he ate! Love this country! Take your friends to Le Moulin de Provence and order the Obama Cookie. Favourite treats to pick up from the ByWard Market Or pick up a bunch of sesame bagels and some dill cream cheese from Kettleman’s Bagel Co. Yummy, greasy diner food for your saturated body and soul. Head to Elgin Street Diner (374 Elgin St., open 24 hours), where I spent my prom night crying into a delicious poutine. Kenny.Annie Murphy grew up in Canada's capital city, Ottawa. If they didn't order a minimum number of bikes, they possibly shared an X number with a Murray badged bike. We figure that a customer had to order a minimum number of bikes per order to have there own X number. Ron and I were talking about these numbers recently. We need to add to the list as more show up. This is what I have so far on the X numbers. They also went to a 4 digit model number. In 69, they changed the layout yet again. After these 3 digits was a 2 or 3 digit model number followed by and X and a 1 or 2 digit number that I will discuss momentarily.
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Some 65 bikes had an MO5 which stood for Murray of Ohio 1965.
#VINTAGE MURRAY BIKE SERIAL NUMBER#
In 65 they were changing there serial number style and by then they were on the left rear dropout. Sears bikes then had a 2 - 5 digit number afterwards that stood as the model number and was actually used in there catalogs as the part number. Sears bikes had a 502 and Gambles bikes had a WG or a WG and a single digit. This excludes bikes built for Sears and Gambles(Hiawatha).
#VINTAGE MURRAY BIKE CODE#
After the year code will be a 2 or 3 digit number that stands for the model number. This is usually followed by a - and a single letter. I ASSUME that they stand for Murray of Ohio Supply. I have seen the letters MOS stamped on most of these. Most of these bikes up until the early 60's had the serial number stamped on the bottom of the bottom bracket. I don't know how far back this goes, but I know that Murray used a single letter to represent the year since at least 1949. There has been many people along the way that has contributed and a few that has helped set me straight. Needed to do this for a while, so here is what I have figured out so far.