Arnold, Schwinn & Co. The World Cycles.

[cyclingday]

This is an interesting update on the future of the old factory.

This sounds like a good plan.
I’d book a stay there if I could.
Bring a bike and cycle around the city for awhile.
Thinking outside the box.

 

[cyclingday]

Ideally, they could have a fleet of old Schwinn bicycles for the guests of the hotel.
Check in, and get an assigned bicycle with a map of the local cycle paths.
Maybe even have a tour guide to take guests on weekend rides.
If I lived in Chicago, I’d try to get something going with the city and the hotel.
Win/Win for everyone.
Maybe a good retirement gig for @Mark Mattei ?
Oh, yeah!

 

[Bleecker]

Im a sucker for cool old buildings! I'm glad it avoided demo and will continue to be used! I'd love to got there...and a fleet of Schwinn's what a great idea!
Cheers!

 

[Schwinn Sales West]

I can foresee the problems now. Every Schwinn Collector that stays at the hotel will be ripping up the carpeting in their hotel rooms looking in the floor cracks for old spoke nipples and ball bearings as souvenirs of their stay. The building will be reduced to rubble within a year by the Schwinn treasure hunters. If there's anything "Schwinn Cool" left, Marty will find it in that building.

John

 

[cyclingday]

Yeah, no doubt!
That parking lot on the west side looks like a good spot for an annual swap meet.
Have breakfast at the rooftop cafe, and then stroll the swap for old relics of the past.
They just need a concierge that knows old bikes, and the history of bicycle row in the old meat packing district.
The husband’s could be living the dream while the wives are getting the royal treatment in the Ignaz Spa and Wellness Center.

 

[cyclingday]

 

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[volksboy57]

 

[cyclingday]

Ca. 1896 Schwinn "The World" Men's | Antique Bicycles Pre-1933

Exciting start to the week- Monday night I got a message from a guy I sold an old project bike to locally about a old Schwinn on craigslist just inside the border of WV . Two photos and a brief description of indeed an "Old Schwinn" - I called with no semblance of poker-voice, I told him...

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Here’s a wonderful thread from a few years ago,
Some really good discussion on the early years at AS&Co.

 

[cyclingday]