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Cooper`s Bicycle Center in Stillwater, OK
Item# Cooper, Guy [Cooper, Guy ]
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Guy Cooper is the son of the late Charlie & Mary Cooper of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The below article appeared on a motorcycle web site recently (Feb 2013):
`I have my dad`s collection of bicycles and it`s overwhelming,` he says. `My parents retired in 1987, and my dad took a lot of his old motorcycle stuff [he used to own a motorcycle store] and took them to a big swap meet and would trade for bicycle stuff. They`ve passed on now and I`ve got their collection and it`s over a thousand bicycles! Over a hundred of those were built before 1900, so I`ve got a pretty neat collection of bicycles. I`ve got a museum started, you can go to CoopersAntiques.com and you can see the different bikes. It`s been a very slow process, if people have been watching for the last three months they know. Man, I thought this winter I`d get a lot done, but you walk into the shop and there are thousands and thousands of parts and it`s just overwhelming. Sometimes I just shut the door and walk away. I`ve got a lot of work to do to get it organized.
`At least the bicycles are covered and are not out in the elements, but I`d like to do more research on them. I went to Schwinn school in 1977, so I know a lot of history on the Schwinn bicycles and we have quite a few from that era, but the stuff that have wood rims and go way back to the early 1900s, the guys that rode those bikes are all gone. Everything is passed down - my sister who has a bicycle shop, between the two of us, we argue about, `dad told me this bike was built at this time,` and she`ll go, `oh no, it was built at this time,` and you go to the Internet and you get a third opinion. So it`s not all accurate, but I`m just trying to get the best information I can and try to be as accurate as possible.`

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Guy Cooper on the right being interviewed (gleaned from his site)

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