I thought it’d be a good idea to share this photograph of an old Indian motorcycle store and garage, it’s been the desktop wallpaper on my Mac for the past couple of months and never seems to get old.
Sadly I don’t have any backstory on it, my best guess is that it was taken in the early 1920’s somewhere in middle America but I could be off a few years and a few miles either way.
Click the photograph for the desktop wallpaper sized version.
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