Time to start a GoFundMe to save the original Wright Brothers bicycle shop -slated for demo
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vincev
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
Years ago the city council wanted to knock down our treasure for a parking lot !!! the people rose up and said NO ! this what it looks like today. It is used for weddings,small retail shops,has original bars from the old jail still in the building. The building is beautiful inside...........
51Resorter
Look Ma, No Hands!
Here is some info from The Henry Ford-Greenfield Village:
www.thehenryford.org
www.thehenryford.org
www.thehenryford.org
Wright Cycle Shop - The Henry Ford
Wilbur and Orville Wright operated their bicycle business in this building from 1897 to 1908 in Dayton, Ohio. The brothers sold and repaired bikes, and they even produced models under their own brands. It was also in this shop that the Wright brothers built their earliest flying machines...
www.thehenryford.org
Museum Icons: Wright Cycle Shop - Blog - The Henry Ford
In a simple bicycle shop now located in Greenfield Village, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, turned the fantasy of heavier-than-air flight into reality. Learn about the Wright Cycle Shop and the Wright Brothers on our blog.
www.thehenryford.org
Making it Wright: Restoring a Piece of the Cycle Shop -- The Henry Ford Blog - Blog - The Henry Ford
For the first time in a century, the sign that used to top the building housing the Wright Brothers' Cycle Shop is back--recreated by the talented staff and volunteers of The Henry Ford.
www.thehenryford.org
The Carolina Rambler
Finally riding a big boys bike
That is correct. It appears there has been some confusion surrounding this building. Although it is in fact not the original Wright brother's shop, and is actually an ice cream factory and shop, it is still a neat building worth saving.
GiovanniLiCalsi
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
History repeats itself, when knowledge of history is lost!
How our society values history is astonishingly embarrassing!
This building must be restored at any cost and a museum must be created. It can be done with a crowdfunding campaign. It’s a no brainer plan and can garner millions of dollars in donations. The crowdfunding campaign can be talked about on all the news medias and brought to worldwide attention.
Too much of America is crumbling, beneath our feet!
How our society values history is astonishingly embarrassing!
This building must be restored at any cost and a museum must be created. It can be done with a crowdfunding campaign. It’s a no brainer plan and can garner millions of dollars in donations. The crowdfunding campaign can be talked about on all the news medias and brought to worldwide attention.
Too much of America is crumbling, beneath our feet!
nightrider
Finally riding a big boys bike
They have been destroying Memphis for decades. Their pace has picked up dramatically in the last 5 years.
The Carolina Rambler
Finally riding a big boys bike
Now that I have looked it up, I see what you mean. Some parts of Memphis appear to be getting uglier and uglier; that Nylon Net Building demolition is the newest addition to the list of waste. Just wait 50 or 60 years from now when people look back at what is being done now in regret. All of this shiny and new construction that is going up currently, due to its lack of quality or craftsmanship, will be run down and ghetto by then, and they too will likely be torn down by that point. What happened in Charlotte, NC in the 1950s and 60s is what is happening in Memphis now, and today you can see the effects of that, there's even crime shows about Charlotte now. Then the cycle will continue I guess.
nightrider
Finally riding a big boys bike
You are spot on! Besides the buildings, they are tearing down historic homes. Just to build 3-4 tiny homes on the lot. And the zoo is paving over part of the greensward in Overton Park. They already took part of the old growth Forrest. Many of our city council members are developers. Why do people keep voting them in?
Makes me sick!
JChapoton
Finally riding a big boys bike
it is.
Archie Sturmer
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
And the Fords are one of America’s richest families, and own the Detroit Lions American-football (not soccer) team.