The 19th Century and the Bicycle

Row of Dancers from the Fox-Senator Theater on bikes in front of Theater during a Pacific Coast Fire Chief Convention. Photographer Frederick-Burkett - 1928
Courtesy of the Center for Sacramento History 

I received this beauty and had to share.  Today the San Francisco Streetsblog posted an amazing article with pictures and quotes from the 19th Century.

Here is one of my favorites quotes from the article:

"If the increase continues, the time is not very distant when not to own and ride a bicycle will be a confession that one is not able-bodied, is exceptionally awkward, or is hopelessly belated."  

          -"The Bicycle Festival," July 13, 1895 New York Times

And my favorite photo:

Cycling in Golden Gate Park in the 1890s

For more quotes and pictures.  Read 19th Century Bicycling: Rubber was the Dark Secret.