Vintage Motorcycle Museum

Vintage Motorcycle Museum

Established	1979 (1979)
Location	Chehalis, Washington
Coordinates	46°39′56″N 122°58′15″W / 46.6655°N 122.9709°W / 46.6655; -122.9709
Type	Transport museum
Collections	Vintage motorcycles
Owner	Frank and Barbara Mason

The Vintage Motorcycle Museum is an appointment only museum in Chehalis, Washington.^[1] The collection, founded in 1979 by retired building contractor Frank Mason,^[2] includes pre-1916 motorcycles, photographs and memorabilia.^[1] Mason and his wife Barbara bought and renovated the historic 1889 Washington Hotel building in Chehalis after it burned in 1997, and moved the collection there.^[3]

The museum moved its collection in 2021 to the Marketplace Square building, half a block south from the hotel.^[1]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Saint, Bryan (May 19, 2021). "Vintage motorcycles have their own museum in Chehalis". King 5 News. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
^ Geoff Hill (June 21, 2006), "Full Speed Ahead into Motorcycle History", The News Letter, Belfast, Northern Ireland^{[dead link]}
^ Julie McDonald Zander (2011), Chehalis, Arcadia Publishing, pp. 111, 124, ISBN 9780738576039

Bibliography

"Classic motorcycle collections in the Pacific Northwest", Sound Rider!, Winter 2012

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