Thread of Original Riding Toy Photos Only

[DaytonandElgin]

Mathew Mess shops for tricycles, with his triplet sons, at a Sears store in Fargo, N.D., Dec. 3, 1954.

 

[Freqman1]

My brothers and me 1966-me far right.

 

[ridingtoy]

By the expression on the little girl's face she takes her tricycle driving seriously. Head badge shape looks like possibly a Gendron Pioneer.

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Viktor Schreckengost (1906-2008) sculpts a pedal car in clay, before creating a working model, at Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. in 1948.

In addition to designing Murray's pedal cars and bicycles, Schreckengost also designed a broad range of other products.

They included stoves, refrigerators, ceramics, lawn furniture, chairs, riding mowers, streetlights, flashlights, electric fans, gearshift consoles, machine tools, printing presses, broadcast equipment, artificial limbs, theater costumes, stage sets, ball gowns, and coffins.

Schreckengost taught at Cleveland Institute of Art for 50 years. He died at age 101. (Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections, Cleveland State University.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Viktor Schreckengost shows some of the toy vehicles and bicycles he designed over the years, in this 1959 photo at Cleveland Institute of Art.

 

[1motime]

Viktor Schreckengost shows some of the toy vehicles and bicycles he designed over the years, in this 1959 photo at Cleveland Institute of Art.

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A master of Industrial Design.

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Bob Feller (1918-2010), who became famous for throwing 100-plus-mph fastballs with Cleveland, takes a tricycle for a spin in 1924, near his Iowa home. (Register and Tribune Syndicate, Des Moines, Iowa, and Cleveland State University.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Chattanooga, Ohio, one mile east of the Ohio-Indiana line, 1948.

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Todd Brown maneuvers a vehicle near his family's Whiteside Road home, Hill District of Pittsburgh, in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Norman Brown, and Homecoming: Hill District, USA.)

 

[mrg]

Me in my first car! a 58 "Murry Holiday" Ford and I still have it, been up on blocks ( hanging in the garage actually ) and haven't driven it in a while