Thread Of Original Old Bicycle Photos Only -- No Discussion Please!

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Mary Connors and David Burkhart win bicycles, after finishing second and first, in a June dairy month essay contest, La Crosse, Wis., 1958. Two other contestants hold cameras they received.

(University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Photo from the June 28, 1958 edition of La Crosse Tribune.)

 

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Boy Scout Donald Nygaard oils his chain in Minneapolis, before a statewide tour in 1946.

(Hennepin County Library. Minneapolis Star and Tribune photo from June 20, 1946.)

 

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Philadelphia officer Edward Sajecki (1928-2022) shows police bikes, for subway concourse patrol, to Michele Cotterill, age 12, in 1957.

Korean War veteran Sajecki died in his early 90s.

(Temple University, and PA Digital. June 12, 1957 photo from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.)

 

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Dora Weyerman, with Todd and Eugene Searle, in Vernal, Utah, 170 miles east-southeast of Salt Lake City, 1952. (Uintah County Library.)

 

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Mackinac Island, Michigan, Dec. 1, 1962.

(Grand Valley State University, and Michigan Service Hub. Douglas R. Gilbert photo.)

 

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Meredith and Guthrie bike shop, 333 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, April 8, 1904.

(Utah Dept. of Cultural/Community Engagement, and Harry Shipler Commercial Photographers.)

 

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West Lake branch of Minneapolis YMCA, boys bike and hike event in Richfield, Minn., seven miles south of Minneapolis, 1924.

(Kautz family YMCA photo archives, and University of Minnesota Libraries.)

 

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Buhl, Minn., 72 miles north-northwest of Duluth, around 1903. (Iron Range Research Center.)

 

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Marvin Bix, 25, Seymour Berman, 21, and David Binder, 15, put their bikes on a train in Minneapolis and traveled to Duluth, along Lake Superior, during the summer of 1946.

They placed their rides on a boat, and went to Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ontario. Finally, the trio pedaled 343 miles back to Minneapolis.

Note the Dayton bicycle on the far left.

(Hennepin County Library. August 20, 1946 photo from the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.)

 

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Richard Regan, age 4, is helped by his mom, Philomena (Morgan) Regan (1897-1996), as he tries to ride his brother's bike for the first time, at 2405 Lake of the Isles Blvd., Minneapolis, 1938.

(Hennepin County Library. April 24, 1938 photo from the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.)