Thursday, July 11, 2024: … In Miles City, MT, A Panorama Showing BOTH =>
….A) What’s Left Of 1968 The ORIGINAL “Bill’s Cycle Shop”. AND
….B) The July 2024EXISTING “Bill’s Cycle Shop”.

…About Bill’s Shop, the ZMM Narrator says =>
… "Under some shady trees I find Bill's Cycle Shop but no Bill.
A passerby says he has "maybe gone fishing somewhere," leaving his shop wide open. We really are in the West. No one would leave a shop like this open in Chicago or New York. .. Inside I see that Bill is a mechanic of the "photographic mind" school. Everything lying around everywhere. Wrenches, screwdrivers, old parts, old motorcycles, new parts, new motorcycles, sales literature, inner tubes, all scattered so thickly and clutteredly you can't even see the workbenches under them. I couldn't work in conditions like this but that's just because I'm not a photographic-mind mechanic. Bill can probably turn around and put his hand on any tool in this mess without having to think about where it is. I've seen mechanics like that. Drive you crazy to watch them, but they get the job done just as well and sometimes faster. Move one tool three inches to the left though, and he'll have to spend days looking for it."

ORIGINAL Shop: Yes it is still there! At 215 South 6th Street, Miles City MT.
…2024 EXISTING Shop, Riverside Marine & Cycle, at 2323 S Haynes Ave, Miles City, MT 59301 800-322-7817 (406) 232-3300. =>

ATTENTION
… By pure accident, BOTH the Original Bill’s Cycle Shop, AND The existing 2024 Bill’s Cycle Shop, are shown in the /\above/\ Panorama Photo, and thus look nearby..
…However, these two shop locations are actually about 4 blocks apart.

MORE INFORMATION =>
… Above the ZMM Narrator says "all scattered so thickly and clutteredly." . However in real life this is found not true!! . … Click Here, .For Good Discussion Of The Clean & Orderly Condition Of Bill’s Cycle Shop, And A Good Interior Photo Showing This.

…And despite the above disparaging remarks of the ZMM Narrator, Bill Bergerson in real life was HIGHLY successful. … His family-owned business Riverside Cycle & Marine, Click Here is still there, despite Bill passing back In ~2005.
… Many Good Photos Of The New Bill’s Cycle Shop. Click Here.

NOTE: Here is one of the very few instances, of the ZMM Narrator’s description does not fit the real circumstance!
…Is this a case of faulty memory? Or is this a case of Author Pirsig trying to make a point how it is possible for a person, despite the look of impossible disorder, to successfully work from a mental picture of the tool locations?

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