Tandem Devoted Thread! Original Photos, your bikes, literature, anything!

[DaytonandElgin]

Picnic for State Farm Insurance employees, Miller Park, Bloomington, Illinois, 1947.

(The Pantagraph photo published Aug. 19, 1947, and Illinois Digital Heritage Hub.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Eugene Bouse (1929-2021) and his friend, Leslie, combined two bikes to create this makeshift tandem in San Antonio during 1942.

(University of Texas-San Antonio Libraries. Photo published in June 1942 by the San Antonio Light.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Toledo Blade newspaper carriers, 1925.

(Toledo Lucas County Public Library.)

 

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T.P. Gaylord and Herbert Gaytes plot their course for a long ride in Beloit, Wisconsin, 75 miles southwest of Milwaukee, 1896.

(Beloit College Digital Collections.)

 

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Dr. William Jeter (1903-1966), his wife Elvira (Begemann) Jeter (1907-1989), Florence (Begemann) Sanders (1905-1996), and George Van Horn. They team up in Clayton, Missouri, eight miles west of downtown St. Louis.

(Missouri State Archives. Gerald Massie photo.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Delores Wiltse, Betty Harkins, Patricia Kane, and their friend are ready to party, along Ridgeview Terrace in Bloomington, Illinois, 1947.

(The Pantagraph photo from May 12, 1947.)

 

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Hot dog month promotion in Wisconsin, June 29, 1957. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.)

 

[Porkchop & Applesauce]

1965 Schwinn twin deluxe. We purchased this bike from the original owner’s estate. This bike was used in the original owner’s wedding photo’s and was last ridden in 1990 when we found it.

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Recreation week, Middletown, Ohio, 1955.

(MidPointe Library System.)

 

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Tandem down and riders out, Denton, Texas, north of Dallas and Fort Worth, 1960s.

(University of North Texas Libraries.)