Grandpa's 1913 Harley

rap2457

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We were scanning some old negatives that my grandfather had and came across this one I thought might be of some interest.He wrote 1913 on the edge of the negative so i'm guessing it's around that year.My grandfather is on the left,his brother center and I'm not sure who the girl is and the family dog.Does anyone have any old cycle pics to share?

 
jeep2003

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cool! my great grandparents in germany before the war had a motorcycle with a sidecar it was thir only transportation. My grandmother has stories of riding along in the sidecar as a kid. He rode it all over europe. they finally got a car after my grandmothers sister was born. I think it was an indian. i dont have any pics
 
KustomKartKid

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That's my paternal grandfather on the far left riding the black (Captain's) H.D....Newark, P.D. circa 1938. By all accounts he was one bad hombre......so ill tempered and surly that even the other cops steered clear of him and my own father feared him.





Member Frank Davis has ID'd the bike as a "1936 Harley Davidson VLH 80 ci solo twin in law enforcement dress..."


On a side note, he was assigned to provide a motorcade escort to a dignitary arriving on the Hindenburg . He was at Lakehurst when the airship crashed and burned.
 
roccosbike

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Thanks for posting that pic,look at the cool riding gloves your gramps is wearing.It must have been really something to have a bike like that in those days.Hell I would love to ride that bike now.:thumbsup:
 
rap2457

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KustomKartKid said:
That's my paternal grandfather on the far left riding the black (Captain's) H.D....Newark, P.D. circa 1938. By all accounts he was one bad hombre......so ill tempered and surly that even the other cops steered clear of him and my own father feared him.





Member Frank Davis has ID'd the bike as a "1936 Harley Davidson VLH 80 ci solo twin in law enforcement dress..."


On a side note, he was assigned to provide a motorcade escort to a dignitary arriving on the Hindenburg . He was at Lakehurst when the airship crashed and burned.
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Very cool Gerry,even his bike is bad ass!Nice bit of history there.Ray
 
Tom S.

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Great photo of the police bikes. :thumbsup: And a Hindenburg connection, too. Wowsers.

I've been having lots of fun w/my scanner lately. Here are pics of my uncle, Lloyd, on his Suzuki Titan in the mid-70s, with my dad's '77 Chrysler Cordoba parked behind him. The Suzuki was a great bike, but the Chrysler was a POS. Second pic is one of me on my shiny new tricycle, prolly from 1961. The last one isn't a cycle pic, just a photo of my Dad, Leonard Stein, at his office likely in the late 50s. He worked at the Army Corps of Engineers and is really in his element in this pic. He worked on the design and construction of dams around the NW. I just found this medium format negative a couple of weeks ago in an old cigar box (the other two pics are scanned prints) and the detail is great. Notice the slide rule, engineer's scale and dividers on his desk.



 
Tom S.

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rap2457 said:
..Does anyone have any old cycle pics to share?..
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Here are my two of my Montana cousins on their Suzukis back in 1967 or 1968. I think we're in Glacier Natl Park. My folks' yellow '67 Plymouth Fury III (air conditioning and power windows!) is on the left. Cousin Mike is on the red bike, and packing crutches on the back because he burned his leg so badly on the exhaust pipe he could barely walk. Gotta watch the high pipe on those old Suzukis. It can get pretty hot. Cousin Pete is on the black bike. I'm in the plaid shirt on the far right standing, behind my aunt Donna's hot red Dodge. It's parked next to uncle Lloyd's IH Travelall.




KustomKartKid said:
,,,Wasn't that your same uncle Loyd in the old pic riding your Lil Indian,,,,,
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Yes. He was a great guy.
 
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