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» Park Avenue & 97th St., Manhattan 
» New York, New York, USA (more..)
» March, 1962
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I was a California boy, and I had seen stuff like this only in pictures. When Uncle Sam gave me an all expenses paid trip to the East Coast, it was like a whole different world. The GG-1's were great, but in my book these ex-CUT NYC electrics were really mean looking machines.
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