Bicycle Shops of Dayton
The Wright brothers first had a printing shop in the late 1800s. I have some print shop photos from our visit to Carillon Park and I'll share those in a future blog entry. For now, this blog entry is focused on the bicycles shops of Dayton at the turn of last century. However, I wanted to mention that the brothers had a print shop and published two Dayton newspapers before eventually getting into bicycles through the 1890s. I mention this to show their experience with retail storefront spaces. After printing and newspapers, they ventured into designing, manufacturing and selling bicycles. During this time of making and selling bicycles, they moved from place to place in five different locations in Dayton. They were at one of these locations so briefly that most historians don't include this location. To be historically accurate, however, I believe it should be included even if they were there for only a matter of weeks. P...