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

[DaytonandElgin]

Outside San Jose Police Department, circa 1925.

(California Digital Library, Dewey L. Maxwell photos/papers, and History San Jose.)

 

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Pacific Northwest Cycling members from Seattle gather at the Snohomish, Washington, train station in 1940, with their bikes in tow.

Most traveled 29 miles by train, from Seattle north-northeast to Snohomish, rode around, and took a train back to Seattle. But a few pedaled the entire 58-mile round-trip distance.

(Museum of History and Industry, Northwest Digital Heritage, Russell O. and Marion Langstaff collection. All rights reserved.)

 

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Bikes, trikes, and at least one baby carriage are prepared for distribution, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Columbia, South Carolina, abt. 1950.

(John Hensel collection, South Carolina Digital Library, and University of South Carolina.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Fix-up time at the Boys Club, 931 Hahman Dr., Santa Rosa, Calif., north-northwest of San Francisco, 1976.

(Sonoma County Library, California Digital. Photo by Don Meacham. Rights owned by Tom Heuser.)

 

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Bike contest winners, Guaranty Cycle store, St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 23, 1952.

(Missouri Historical Society, and Heartland Hub. Sievers Studio photo.)

 

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Bicycles share the same storefront with plumbing/heating services, tinware, and stoves in Amherst, Mass., 90 miles west of Boston.

(Digital Amherst. John Lovell [1825-1903] photo.)

 

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Long Island, N.Y., around 1900.

(William H. Doering [1858-1924] lantern slide collection, and Library Company of Philadelphia.)

 

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Shipbuilder and ex-Seattle mayor Robert Moran (1857-1943), second from left, shakes hands with a bicyclist in Toppenish, Washington, 162 miles southeast of Seattle, in October 1920.

Moran, a self-taught mechanical engineer, was influential in the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and led a trade relations tour around Toppenish.

(University of Washington Libraries, Northwest Digital Heritage, and HistoryLink.org.)