1940's mid-sized tricycles.
03-08-24, 02:32 PM
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1940's mid-sized tricycles.
My step-mother turns 87 tomorrow. A childhood friend from Brooklyn sent her a picture of them playing as kids. I've never seen the slightly larger tricycles the boys seem to be on.
Eileen-
I came across this old photo from Sterling Street in the 1940's. I thought you'd enjoy seeing us all again as children:
Henry & Martin Druckerman, Eileen Bloomer, Walter Seekircher and Bobby Berman.
Regards,
Henry
Eileen-
I came across this old photo from Sterling Street in the 1940's. I thought you'd enjoy seeing us all again as children:
Henry & Martin Druckerman, Eileen Bloomer, Walter Seekircher and Bobby Berman.
Regards,
Henry
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03-08-24, 03:48 PM
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Great photo! I don't remember seeing trikes that size before. I have a photo of my dad on a trike in the 40's, but it's the typical smaller trike. His photo was taken in Brooklyn as well. I recognize those red brick homes. 
I still ride a trike, but it looks like this.
I still ride a trike, but it looks like this.
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I'm 85 and I remember a trike I had that seems to have had larger wheels but then again I was smaller then. Even so, I think the wheels were larger than the typical child's trike, even larger than the trikes in the photo.
03-08-24, 08:50 PM
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I'm 73 and remember having a Peugeot tricycle in the '50s that was bigger than the common ones, similar to those in the photo. It had belonged to my uncle, so probably from the late 30s or early 40s.
03-09-24, 10:45 AM
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Big trikes big wheels
I had such a trike. By removing the seat and inverting the head tube on the fork and reinstalling the bars you produced the 50's version of the low slung big wheel. You sat on a board positioned on the step between the rear wheels. The modern commercially successful analog was a safer improvement because cheap plastic made more noise making the low rifle ride more conspicuous to vehicles or pedestrians.
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