A marvellous old photo.

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

I found this photo almost by accident when I was doing some research this morning.
This is my idea of the perfect workshop

 

[Foundry_Man]

Great photo, I love seeing stuff like this

 

[wheelbender6]

I can only imagine what its like to pack bearings while wearing a vest and necktie.

 

[Russell]

A picture was a big deal. You had to wear your sunday duds. IWW thanks for this and other great phots you have posted.

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

I can only imagine what its like to pack bearings while wearing a vest and necktie.

Well actually it's not a problem at all; - provided that is you whistle 'Land of Hope and Glory' and think stirring thoughts of Britain's former industrial might while doing so.

 

[Mr.B.]

Perhaps you’ve seen this before...?

It has been posted before >

http://users.senet.com.au/~mitchell/lewis/album/index.htm

From your “neighborhood”...

-Kirk

 

[oldtimer54]

Love the motorized bikes in the back of the pic. Wonder what they are?

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

Perhaps you’ve seen this before...?

It has been posted before >

http://users.senet.com.au/~mitchell/lewis/album/index.htm

From your “neighborhood”...

-Kirk

What wonderful old photographs! Now that is what I call a bicycle shop. Thank you for re-posting the link Mr B

 

[buba]

thanks for posting these old timey photos

just love to see them

 

[truckd]

Man you guys got me staring at pic's for the last hour forgot what I was doing DAHHH!!

 

[Theon]

No safety glasses?

 

[Moto pope]

In IWW's pic, it looks as if some one brought their baby buggy in to get the wheels trued-up, or a 2 cycle attached.

 

[truckd]

Have you ever seen some of the Tri-Cycle by Columbia and Ivers Johnson they were just little bicycles, buggies ( for the wealthy were the same ) a nice Buggy cost as much as a Bicycle WOW!

 

[paul]

I love the old bicycle pictures. they are works of art to me

 

[Moto pope]

Wouldn't it be great to have a couple of those framed (sepia?) on the workshop wall?

 

[Ludwig II]

Print them in shades of brown on photographic paper.

 

[Allen_Wrench]

I love the pic of the bike shop, IWW. I was thinking about past summers and got wistful, and could actually feel the goings on in the old photo. My little shed out back of my house gets nearly that busy in summertime when the local kids (and even one or two adults now) bring their bikes by for a spring tune-up and later for adjustments of all sorts. I can't bring myself to charge for it; they're all about as poor as I am.
But I look at pics like that and realize what an anachronism I am. I imagine that, despite inherent hardships, I'd be happier living about a hundred years earlier than I am now.

 

[truckd]

Here is a photo I found somewhere ? but when I click onto it for magnification I was able to see a lot of stuff shelf's at the left stock with Old Sol carbide lamps, back shelf's loaded with white tires, calendar Dec 1919, bird cage at the top of the stairs (back in the old days of gas lamps birds were necessary to detect gas leaks if they died) Hawthorne bikes.
cool photo to go with I.W.'s

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

Ah sigh, yes those were the days. Bicycle shops these days are barely worthy of the name.

 

[truckd]

Here is something to add to the Photo Album, you got to see this!

http://www.cyclesmithy.com/pages/schwinn-photographs