This Day in History (Post up past events relative to the current date)

A little late, but.
Today in History -- On today’s date 120 years ago, Monday, July 6, 1903, noted American bicycle racer, chauffeur, automobile mechanic, & pioneering motorcyclist George Adams Wyman (1877-1959) made history when he completed a transcontinental journey & arrived in New York City, thus becoming the first person to cross the North American continent by a road-going motorized vehicle. Wyman’s journey took a total of 51 days to cover some 3,800 miles. Wyman completed his trip just 20 days before Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson (1872-1955) became first person to cross the North American Continent by automobile.
☞George Wyman’s machine, a 1902 California Motorcycle Company “motor-bicycle,” had a 200cc, 1.5 horsepower, four-stroke engine bolted to a standard steel bicycle frame. Wyman’s machine was equipped with 28” x 1.5” pneumatic tires on wooden rims, a leading-link front suspension fork, a springed seat, a Duck Brake Company front roller brake & an Atherton rear coaster brake. A leather drive-belt with a spring-loaded idler pulley directly connected the engine output shaft to the rear wheel. The California weighed roughly 80 pounds & was capable of a top speed of approximately 25 miles per hour.
☞In order to save weight, Wyman packed only one change of clothing, a water bottle, various small tools, one can for spare oil, one can for reserve gasoline, a Kodak Vest-Pocket camera, a cyclometer, & a .38-calibre Smith & Wesson revolver.
☞The circa-1903 photograph depicts George Wyman with his motor-bicycle on which he became the first motorcyclist to cross the North American Continent.
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Picture my brother took March of 73. He took me back to Nassau Coliseum in Sept of 73 for my 1st show. August 9th, day Jerry passed away, should be some sort of drug awarness holiday, to really honor him if you ask me.
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UtahJoe said:
My mom was 14 and still tells us the story of how she snuck out of her parents apartment in Bayonne to go to this concert.
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OK so I hadn't heard this story in some years and I didn't remember it accurately... I asked her again yesterday about it...... So originally her mom, my grandmother was going to take her... But bc the world's fair had been there, and they went to that multiple times... She actually convinced her mom to not go and let her take my aunt instead. So my mom was actually 15 and took my aunt who was 13, alone to this concert...... My mom said the crowd was so loud she didn't hear any of the songs
 
Remembering Jim Clawson (Nature Jim). Died 9/25/2019.
He maintained the Wawayanda trails and built many of them himself.
I had the pleasure to ride with him on some of those trails, and he coached me on some of the rough stuff.
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A popular trail "Tombstone" was built in ONE day, with the help of another "unknown actor".
and even though it remains unsanctioned by the park it is used in many events and by many riders.

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The 1958 Newark Bay rail crash occurred on September 15, 1958 in Newark Bay, New Jersey, when a Central Railroad of New Jersey morning commuter train, #3314, ran through a restricting and a stop signal, derailed, and slid off the open Newark Bay lift bridge. Both diesel locomotives and the first two coaches plunged into Newark Bay and sank immediately, killing 48 people and injuring the same number.

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