Ted Burntrager, long-time Olympia resident, demonstrates how to mount a “pennyfarthing,” or high wheeled bicycle. The bicycle was on display at Talcott Jewelers, a long-time Olympia store that sold jewelry, bicycles, and everything in between. The bicycle would have been an antique at the time the photograph was taken. Fittingly, the Talcott Jewelers building is now a downtown bicycle shop.
unknown photographer, around 1950s, courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C2019.0.24
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2020