It was the kid, Ed Schwinn. It was at a bicycle dealer products show held at a hotel. I forget, but I think it was a Holiday Inn. Eddie's daughter, was hired by Charlie Persons, who put on the show, to serve drinks. He said Ed Schwinn came walking in late, and everyone was falling all over him. Eddie Boros was a Schwinn dealer, and couldn't stand Ed Schwinn. He said he was "arrogant." Ed briefly dated his daughter. Eddie never said anything about that, he only mention that Schwinn dated her. A couple days before the show, Eddie's wife, Lois, got mad at him because he took the closet poles out of a couple closets to see how they would work out for mounting head badges. They fit, so he tacked some of his primo badges to them for a display. He said Schwinn was walking around, making the rounds and Tammy had made him a "Black Russian" drink. Drink in hand, he walked over to Ed's table. He looked at Ed's display and yells" Son of a Bitch. Why didn't I think of that," and throws his drink, smashing it against the wall behind Eddie's table. Ed said glass and drink splattered everywhere. He then said Schwinn told him how he flattened out the entire collection of head badges that he had, and mounted them on a display board. On a side note , someone, I forget who, bought those flattened badges when the Schwinn museum was sold off. Anyway, it was right after that, that every Schwinn dealer got a letter saying the Schwinn company wanted early and hard to find Schwinn badges. Please mail them to the factory. Eddie said all the dealers went through their parts. Most of them couldn't send them in fast enough. Eddie referred to them as F'n brown noses, trying to get brownie points with Ed Schwinn. I asked Eddie if he sent any in, because he had one heck of a badge collection. He said,"F--- no! Now, about Eddie Boros. Tough to deal with, as far as haggling over a part, but honest and a great guy. Always a funny story. One day I go over to his house and he shows me this old wood wheeled bike he had. He said, " I found it, leaning against a tree, after a show. He said, "Somebody must have tossed it out." Guys do that after swaps, they'll take off the parts they want and leave the bike. I do that with boxes of parts and stuff that I don't sell. But this bike was old and complete. Eddie wanted to know if I was interested in it, which I wasn't. I hate wood rimmed bikes. About a week later, I'm talking on the phone with Robin Bridges, and Robin says, " I just want to let you know, someone stole a bike on me at the swap last week. I was wheeling bikes out to my van, after the swap. I leaned this bike up against a tree and went back to get another one. I get back and the bike is gone! Some low-life stole it!" I asked, "Did it have wooden rims?" We all had a good laugh over that incident. It's a great hobby.
Here's a photo taken at the old Memory Lane. Catfish is the man with the beard.He was looking over my parts table. It's a great hobby, with great people! God bless all of you.