Page-46, an advert for Columbia Manufacturing Co of Westfield, MA. At this time the company was a division of MTD Products Inc of Cleveland, OH.

Page-47, the first page of a multi-page article giving the history of Columbia, the oldest bicycle company in America. Columbia celebrated their 100th Anniversary in the American Bicycle Industry. Many other firms in the bike industry sent their congratulations to Columbia in adverts within this issue. Here is a brief timeline:
Columbia started as the Pope Mfg. Co. in Hartford, CT.
Torrington Co acquired the company in 1933 and changed the name to The Westfield Mfg. Co.
Norman A. Clark (and his newly formed corporation) acquired the company in 1969; the name was changed to Columbia Mfg. Co.
MTD Products Inc of OH acquired the company in 1967.

Page-54, a continuation of the article about Columbia showing illustrations of some of the Columbia bicycles produced through the years.

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Page-58, illustrations of the Pope facilities in 1881

Page-59, illustrations of the Pope facilities in 1881

Page-64, a continuation detailing the history of Pope & Columbia companies.

Page-65: (1) A continuation of the history of Pope & Columbia. (2) An article about locating a granddaughter of Col. Pope, Mrs. James L. Lytel. (3) An article about Edward Berry Jr. who in 1971 rode a Columbia High-Wheel bicycle on a 3400 mile trip cross country in 48 days. (4) Congratulations to Columbia from Hunt-Wilde & Stewart-Warner.

Page-68 with copies of Columbia adverts from 1898, 1918, 1935 & 1940

Page-69 with a copy of a Columbia (Pope) advert from 1880

Page-74 with two adverts congratulating Columbia on their 100 year Anniversary, from Andrew Fisher Cycle Co & HKK Chain Corp of America.

Page-75, images taken from the famed book AROUND THE WORLD ON A BICYCLE, the story of Thomas Stevens who rode around the world on a Columbia High-Wheel bicycle starting in 1884.

Page-79 with pictures taken inside the Columbia factory and some of the executives who participated in the Centennial celebration; John Rhodes, Harry Rainey, Dieter Kasgin, Richard Armstrong, Ken Howard, Emil Stang, Richard Huntoon, Bill Laighton, Dick Saloomey, David Johnson & Pat Flahive.

Page-104, the first page of RACING NEWS, a regular section. Named are; Wayne & Dale Stetina, Mark Pringle, Dave Ware, Connie Carpenter, Barbara Hintzen, Jane Buyny, Mary Jane Reoch, Heidi Hopkins, Robin Deely and many others.

Page-108 contains an article about The 1977 Mongoose NBA Grand national BMX race which was held in Northridge, CA. Howie attended this race.

Page-109: (1) A continuation of RACING NEWS from page-104 mentioning Leigh Barczewski, Jerry Ash, Gibby Hatton, Connie Carpenter, Carrie Peterson, Jane Buyny, Heidi Hopkins, Sue Novara, & Connie Paraskevin. (2) An article regarding the acquisition of assets of Standard Cycle & inventories of Oxford International by Bicycles Inc (Bob Fluhr). Pat McKenna was named as VP/general manager of Standard. (3) An article about Huffman making two personnel announcements of Harvey L. Ackerman & Brock A. Robertson. (4) adverts for Gus Betat & Son of New Orleans and J&B of Miami.

Page-111, an announcement of the passing of Charles Cudell at age 58. Charlie worked for Schwinn Bicycle Co for 37 years; he was a cousin of Frank V. Schwinn. The adverts on this page are from; Hans Johnsen Co featuring Vista brand bicycles, Stuyvesant Bicycle Distributors featuring Atala brand bicycles, Pinnell's Distributor featuring Columbia, Worksman & Alco brand bicycles, Northwest Bicycle Supply (Bill & Clyde Stedman), and Farber Cycle featuring Vista bicycles.