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This bike and car repair shop in Burbank, Calif., also sold sporting goods in 1908. (Los Angeles Public Library, and CaliSphere.)
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F.M. Jones bike shop in San Jose, Calif., 1908, where it was all about Racycle, the exciting machine from Middletown, Ohio.
(History San Jose, CaliSphere, and Butler County [Ohio] Historical Society.)
(History San Jose, CaliSphere, and Butler County [Ohio] Historical Society.)
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A streetcar strike takes the joy out of bicycling, when you face the steep hills of San Francisco.
(July 1, 1946, photo from San Francisco Public Library, and CaliSphere.)
(July 1, 1946, photo from San Francisco Public Library, and CaliSphere.)
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Wore out three sets of tires already!
The Gregg family, Santa Rosa, Calif., 1961. (Sonoma County Library via the Don Meacham photo collection, and CaliSphere.)
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Wore out three sets of tires already!
In 1944, Charles Hatton, age 22, lost his right leg in a car accident. No one in Dayton, Ohio, wanted to hire him because of his physical challenges.
Finally, in 1946, he was steered in the right direction by the state employment service office, a vocational rehabilitation agency, and Goodwill Industries. At Goodwill, Hatton learned how to tighten spokes on bicycle wheels.
In the fall of 1946, Huffman Manufacturing had an opening at its bicycle plant, Davis and Gilbert avenues, on the east side of Dayton. Hatton got the job he was trained to do: tightening spokes (first photo, at the Huffman job site).
James Blythe, the group leader in the wheel room at Huffman, was also physically challenged (second photo, talking to Hatton).
Blythe and Hatton were two of 28 Huffman workers with physical difficulties, out of 750 employees at the Dayton bicycle factory in 1947. The 28 were just as productive, and just as focused on quality, as the others, according to Huffman.
Hatton made $1.17 an hour at Huffman in 1947, the same as $16.06 per hour now.
(Dayton Daily News, Oct. 5, 1947, page 56, Dayton Metro Library's history section, and Bureau of Labor Statistics online inflation calculator. This story was adapted from original reporting by journalist Alan Pritchard. Photos were taken by Paul K. Horn, Jr. [1906-1975], who was with the Dayton paper for nearly 30 years.)
Finally, in 1946, he was steered in the right direction by the state employment service office, a vocational rehabilitation agency, and Goodwill Industries. At Goodwill, Hatton learned how to tighten spokes on bicycle wheels.
In the fall of 1946, Huffman Manufacturing had an opening at its bicycle plant, Davis and Gilbert avenues, on the east side of Dayton. Hatton got the job he was trained to do: tightening spokes (first photo, at the Huffman job site).
James Blythe, the group leader in the wheel room at Huffman, was also physically challenged (second photo, talking to Hatton).
Blythe and Hatton were two of 28 Huffman workers with physical difficulties, out of 750 employees at the Dayton bicycle factory in 1947. The 28 were just as productive, and just as focused on quality, as the others, according to Huffman.
Hatton made $1.17 an hour at Huffman in 1947, the same as $16.06 per hour now.
(Dayton Daily News, Oct. 5, 1947, page 56, Dayton Metro Library's history section, and Bureau of Labor Statistics online inflation calculator. This story was adapted from original reporting by journalist Alan Pritchard. Photos were taken by Paul K. Horn, Jr. [1906-1975], who was with the Dayton paper for nearly 30 years.)
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