1972  - Doors open at Sunnyside Touring on Irving Avenue. Jim Desmet and Gary Fowles were joined by a young Gary Bonacker, who worked at the shop for free and collected bottles for income.
       
1973  - Sunnyside moves to Greenwood Avenue. Selling Peugeot, Motobecane, and Raleigh.
       
1976 - Sunnyside moves to Bond Street. Picks up Univega Bicycles
       
1978 - Sunnyside Touring sells to an investment group and becomes Sunnyside Sports
      
1980 - The Cascade Cycling Classic begins with a small and dedicated group of volunteers including Gary and Don.  Sunnyside picks up Trek Bicycles

1982 - First mountain bike arrives --A Univega Alpina Pro
  
1983 - Don Leet purchases Sunnyside
       
1983 -  Don gets Trek's first prototype mountain bike.  Now in Trek's in-house museum
       
1984 - Store moves to Wall Street
       
1985 - Sunnyside picks up Bridgestone and had our first $1000 mountain bike on the floor--an MB0
       
1987 - Sunnyside/Bridgestone Mountain Bike Team takes life at the store. Includes Don, John Howcroft, Julie Willis, and the late Tom Pickett of Pickett's Charge fame. 
       
1990 -  Store moves to its current location on Newport Ave.  Don rides a suspension fork at World's - Purchased from Rockshox Reps at World's
       
1993 - Bonackers become partners in Sunnyside, Inc.
       
2002 - Store remodels to double in size
       
2003 - Gary is diagnosed with brain cancer

       
2005 - 700 riders attend the first Tour des Chutes
       
2007  - Mike Schindler becomes a partner.

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