Thread of Original Riding Toy Photos Only

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Derby Days, Redmond, Washington, east of Seattle, back in the day. (Redmond Historical Society.)

 

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Westgate, Iowa, 25 miles northeast of Waterloo, June 23, 1909. (University of Iowa Libraries.)

 

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I've always looked up to Mom.

"Woolly" Hatchell and his mother, Mrs. James Hatchell, in Columbia, South Carolina, March 1964. (Richland Library, Columbia.)

 

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Appears to be an American National tricycle - studio photo.

 

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Steve and Bill Johnson, along with Pam McCain, check out three different sizes of trikes in Colorado, October 1949. (Mesa County Libraries, Grand Junction.)

 

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Mary Elizabeth (Rhoads) Buttle (1918-2004) takes charge of her trike and teddy bear, in Denver, Colorado, about 1925.

Her dad, Harry Mellon Rhoads (1881-1975) snapped the picture. He was a photographer at the Rocky Mountain News for many decades.

(Denver Public Library, and Findagrave.com.)

 

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This tricycle, from about 1891, was owned by Lewis D. Bohnett, Sr. (1880-1970), San Jose, Calif.

It's 56 inches long, 27.75 inches high, and 27 inches wide. The trike has a leather seat and seat back. (History San Jose.)

 

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A nice little gem for the kids, at Goodyear service station, Los Angeles, 1940. (USC Digital Library.)

 

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Mary Louise Benner-Shahan. (Huffman and Shahan family history, Dayton, Ohio.)

 

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Davison's department store, 180 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Sept. 25, 1954. First photo was taken five years after Davison's had expanded, to the rear of 180 Peachtree, in 1949 (second photo).

(The Department Store Museum blog, Lane Brothers commercial photographers, and Georgia State University Library.)