Scattered Thoughts . . .

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 bicycle 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.  Pe...

L ukey and Kenzie arrived yesterday to stay with us for a couple of weeks.  It was a nice first day with them and they were greeted with a nice surprise when they arrived...  waiting in the yard were two new bicycles!  They had outgrown their old bicycles so Gee and Papa purchased two size-appropriate bicycles.  Needless to say, they were pretty excited so this was their first activity of the day.  Actually, they did a lot of riding... Kenzie arrived at the house wearing sandals but she changed into sneakers immediately so she could ride her new bike... While I was waiting for Lukey and Kenzie to make a lap past our house, I decided to shoot a photo of the house... I think Lukey was a bit torn between riding his new bike and playing golf.  After some initial bike riding, Lukey and I spent a lot of time pitching with a wedge onto the green and then putting on the green.  Lukey even got a hole-in-one once! After a short while, I realized that we needed t...