Saturday, April 4, 2015

My Sepia Saturday Contribution for this week.

My Sepia Sat. contribution for this week.

Sepia Saturday blog

 This one would be from the late 1950's and is a picture of my brother pulling me around on an unusual 'trip'.
This one is from the early 1960's and is my brother again on a bigger bike and a different location. This would have been near our house on Circle Drive which we had left by 1963.
The houses are still there.

I do remember he took flight over those handle bars once when he had no shirt on resulting, I believe, in the reason he has very little hair on his chest to this day.

Boy I wish we still had both these bikes.

10 comments:

  1. That first one looks like a fun bike. You could put so many things in the wagon, including a little brother.

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  2. Happy memories (except the vault over the handlebars!).

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  3. The bumps and scrapes when falling are usually worse when your torso is bare. I wish you had those bikes too.

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  4. I took a few flights over the handlebars on my bike, I remember. I think the versatility of the Instamatic cameras which became popular in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in a huge variety of family snapshots from that era. Thanks for sharing these typical examples.

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  5. Ohhh, you made me shiver with your description of your brother taking a trip over his bike handlebars sans shirt. Y'ouch! I remember several skinned knees and legs from riding my bike in shorts. I never went over the handlebars, however. Usually my bike slid one way or the other & I went down with it. Fun days even so, though. I loved riding that thing everywhere. Fun pictures of you and your brother!

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  6. A friend of mine who is a keen member of the mamil brigade (middle aged men in lyrca) recently took a tumble and broke both his hands quite badly. Your brother was lucky!

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  7. A friend of mine who is a keen member of the mamil brigade (middle aged men in lyrca) recently took a tumble and broke both his hands quite badly. Your brother was lucky!

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  8. I bet we ALL have visible signs of bike-riding -- mine is an oval shaped scar on my left knee...still there after more than 50 years! Boy, I remember that clearly -- thanks for a post that took me back!

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  9. Thanks all. I still have one more bike I wanted to show, but could not find the picture.

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  10. Two very great photos. I remember being bruised and scratched from riding the bikes in the summer. I remember trying to do tricks on the bike and it seemed wonderful to me but I am sure it would pretty stupid to me now as an adult.

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