Palm Beach Bike Tours

Son Matt and I spotted this bike in a tree when we were cruising a neighborhood not far from mine about this time last year. It didn’t look like it was chained down or attached to the tree, so we couldn’t figure out if it was supposed to be there or if someone had stuck [...]

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The Space Shuttle Endeavor’s crew and I both took a ride this weekend. Clouds and low ceiling postponed their launch, but it was a picture-perfect liftoff 24 hours later. Here’s what it looked like from our front yard in West Palm Beach, FL.
Sorry for the bumpy video. I crawled out of a nice, warm [...]

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The anonymous tip came in close to midnight Tuesday night: someone was stealing bikes from Jack the Bike Man’s used bicycle business at 4401 Broadway in West Palm Beach. Police caught two juveniles near the scene and asked Jack to come see if he could identify the bikes. Indeed, he recognized one as being brought [...]

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Palm Beach Post RIP 12/20/2008 – Sign on Press Room Wall
I was working as chief photographer at The Athens (OH) Messenger in the late ’60s when I decided I wanted to see what the best newspaper photo departments around the country were doing. I started subscriptions to about a dozen papers, including The Witchita Eagle-Beacon, [...]

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I was digitizing old negatives  when I came across these pictures from the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missouri State College Homecoming Parade in 1964.
Big float promotes Barry Goldwater

[Editor's note: (The Rialto Theater to the left of Barry is where I met my future wife.]
Democrats counter with bicycles
The local Democrats countered with two boys on bikes that [...]

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