SCHWINN THREADS

[Boris]

Long ago, (and with the managers permission, amazingly enough), my friends and I threw a couch off the 5th floor balcony of the apartment building where we were living. I remember watching it flip end over end, in slow motion, for what seemed to be an eternity (drugs). The ground was it's demise, and a good time was had by all (except the couch).

Then there was the time, and I remember this vividly, being about 4 years old, emptying out my dresser drawers and tossing everything out my 2nd story bedroom window. Bobby and Jimmy Cutietta, my next door neighbors, were standing in their driveway, catching my clothes and laughing all the while. That is, until my mother had to come along and spoil the fun.

What does this have to do with Schwinn? Well I think either Jimmy or Bobby might have owned a Schwinn, but I can't say for sure.

 

[vincev]

Did you stay on the couch when it was tossed off the balcony ??

 

[Superman1984]

Did you stay on the couch when it was tossed off the balcony ??

Vince was you trying to stuff women's sofas oL'chap

 

[Goldenrod]

My friend let other college guys take his old refrigerator while he was at work. They never came but they met later. They had taken the wrong refrigerator because the buildings looked alike. "We wondered why it was full of food."

 

[the tinker]

Here's a Schwinn story. I may have posted this before, but I'm old so don't mind if I repeat. Some 52 years ago, I was a crewmember on a destroyer escort [ USS. Rathburne DE 1057] that was tied up in Pearl Harbor. Coming back to the ship one night, I was drunk and borrowed a very rusty Schwinn 10 speed, riding it back to, and onboard the ship. The next morning [Sunday] I'm in my rack asleep. The quarterdeck watch shook me awake, asking if the bike on the stern was mine, and if it was, the officer of the deck wanted me to immediately remove it. I brought the bike below and stashed it in the chemical warfare equipment storage space. I was an E5 Damage Controlman, in charge of this space, tucked away in a below decks area. The Schwinn's color was brown, and while at sea, I repainted it rustoleum yellow and on my next leave, I brought the bike back to Chicago. The US Navy payed the shipping charge. Many years ago, I put it out on the curb for trash. I wish I still had it. Now, before the CABE "do gooders" call me a bike thief, I want to state that the piers of every port were littered with ridable bikes abandoned by sailors that had shipped out, or that had mustered out of the navy. Lots of cars too. There was about 50 feet of open main deck on the port side. I rode that bike aboard ship. Probably the only Schwinn to be ridden at sea.

 

[Superman1984]

I'll take her, that bike and Create 1 Helluva Schwinn story

 

[GTs58]

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I'll take her, that bike and Create 1 Helluva Schwinn story

That was Hermie's later girl friend in the Summer of 42 after Dorothy, Jennifer O. moved away.