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„Ride On!“ - Lightner Museum Exhibition, Florida, USA

Ride On! Historic Bicycles from the Keith Pariani Collection

February 2, 2023 – September 30, 2023

In the 1890s the bicycle took over the hearts and minds of Americans. By the early twentieth century, almost 300 bicycle manufacturing firms were established in the US. Swept up in the craze for cycling, the Lightner Museum’s historic building, the Hotel Alcazar, offered its own bicycle academy, allowing its guests to tour Gilded Age St. Augustine on two wheels.

Drawn from the collection of St. Augustine bicycle aficionado Keith Pariani, Ride On! features bicycles selected by Pariani as important examples of design in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century bicycle manufacture.

Address: 75 King St. in St. Augustine, Florida, USA

Contact: https://lightnermuseum.org/exhibitions/

album: 306 - Lightner Museum Exhibition 2023

1868 American boneshaker animal motif head

The oldest bike he owns dates back to 1868, which was about seven years before people began to call these contraptions “bicycles.” “It’s got a cast-iron eagle head on the front of it, which is very, very unusual for an American bike,” Pariani explained. “There are only two American bikes that had some type of animal motif. The Europeans did it quite a lot.”