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'''Velodrome | '''Velodrome on Baker directly across from end of Panhandle, between Fell and Oak Streets, 1890s.''' | ||
''Photo: Bancroft Library'' | ''Photo: Bancroft Library'' | ||
Revision as of 16:29, 1 December 2011
Unfinished History
Velodrome on Baker directly across from end of Panhandle, between Fell and Oak Streets, 1890s.
Photo: Bancroft Library
Today's Department of Motor Vehicles at Baker and Fell sits on the site of what was a bicycling Velodrome in 1893. Other velodromes were located at 7th and Stevenson (most recently the Greyhound Terminal, now the new Federal Building at 7th and Mission) and the Valencia Gardens Housing Project.
Cartoon about "scorchers" (bicycles) from the turn of the 19th to 20th century.