chriscraftrick
1 post
Nov 13, 2008
5:47 AM
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Does anyone know where I can find information about City of Dayton Bicycle license from 1900 to 1930? I have tried calling the city and looking thru many things on the internet to no avail. I know they were sold. Thanks!!!
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Dan-O
16 posts
Nov 14, 2008
9:48 AM
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I don't know about the 1900-30 time frame, but I do know that when I was a boy in the 60s, Dayton still required bicycle licenses. You were supposed to get them annually (although we didn't always do that), and I think they cost 50¢ (but I could be wrong about that). Dayton also had a Bicycle Court, which was held on Saturday mornings at the Safety Building downtown. You could get cited into Bicycle Court for not having a bike license, and for safety violations such as riding double, riding on the wrong side of the street, running a stop sign, etc. As I recall, if you were cited for not having a bike license, but you bought one before your court appearance, then you would just show the judge at your court appearance that you had bought one, and your case would be dismissed with no punishment. If, on the other hand, you were cited for a safety violation (such as riding on the wrong side of the street) and found guilty, then you would be sentenced to something like writing a hundred times “I will not ride on the wrong side of the street.”
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redrover98
9 posts
Nov 17, 2008
5:41 PM
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I'm pretty sure I remember that you were given a metal plate that you fastened to your spokes.
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Keugene48
29 posts
Mar 27, 2009
5:32 PM
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My poor mother could not keep wooden clothespins at our house. If it wasn't using them in our bicycles we were using them as tent pegs in the corners of dad's woolen army blankets hung from the clothesline.
I think the best smell on earth is from sheets dried in the sun on a clothesline. No fabric softener I ever tried smelled like that.
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KenC3
11 posts
Dec 12, 2011
1:15 AM
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I had a license and once got a ticket for running a stop sign.
Off to court and a hefty writing assignment. Some of the guys lost their bikes because they didn't do the writing.
Those were the days...
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Jim F
1 post
Apr 24, 2014
12:03 PM
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I had a bicycle license on my Western Flyer (sold by
the Western Auto Stores) from about 1942 to 1946 or
so. The bike was tan with brown and maroon trim and
had a "tank" that held batteries for the headlight.
The licenses were about 2" wide by about 6" or 7" long
with rounded ends. The lettering and number were
embossed (like an automobile plate) vertically in the
long direction. I had the license attached to the
rear fender held in place by the red reflector.
Unlike KenC3, I never received a citation. At the time
I lived in Dayton View and attended Fairview High.
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gris66
123 posts
Apr 24, 2014
12:32 PM
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Hi chriscraftrick...
Records like that no longer exist at the
Dayton Police Department. The records section was purged of many old and outdated records in the 1970s and 1980s (and probably several times since). It is a storage issue.
A long shot might be the Wright State University Paul L. Dunbar Library. It is the custodian for many old governmental records once belonging to cities in about 10 area counties. However, it only has what was given to it by the governmental agencies.
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olds88
246 posts
Apr 24, 2014
1:02 PM
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Lived outside city and they would always try to make you buy a tag.Iremember going down stairs at the city building and some large gentleman doled out writing assignments a hundred at a time.Now they dont under stand why people want nothing to do with the city.
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Billd1952
191 posts
Apr 24, 2014
6:06 PM
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I remember going downtown to the Municipal Building to buy a bicycle license. The front counter was taller than I was. A friend and I were caught by Officer Love, of the Dayton Police Dept., riding our bicycles on WB 35. We got on at Woodman Dr., and Officer Love was waiting for us at Richard St. and St. Nicholas Ave., when 35 ended at Linden Ave.. We did not get a ticket, but he made it clear we had no business on the freeway.
Last Edited by Billd1952 on Apr 24, 2014 6:08 PM
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Steve K
235 posts
May 02, 2014
2:05 PM
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I wonder if anything at the Wright Brothers bicycle shop or the bicycle display at the Carillon would at least have a bicycle with a license on it from the 1900-1930 time frame?
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