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The Tailgate / Today in history 2-11
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday at 11:23:56 AM
1878
Feb 11
First US cycling club formed

On February 11, 1878, the Boston Bicycle Club, the first organization for recreational cyclists, is formed. The following year, a club is formed in Buffalo, followed by a club in New York in 1880. In the ensuing decades, as middle-class participation in cycling grows, hundreds of cycling clubs are formed across the United States.

The Boston Bicycle Club organized various rides, from tricycle races to 100-mile rides. Less than 20 years after its founding, more than 100 cycling clubs had formed in Massachusetts, according to the Massachusetts Historical Society, catering to rider expertise, gender, nationality and more. Early bicycles featured an oversized front wheel.

In October 1879, Boston Bicycle Club members rode through the city and its suburbs in an event with the Massachusetts Cycling Club—an 87-mile round trip. For short distances, cyclists achieved speeds of 16 mph, according to the Boston Post.

"Coming through Watertown a gentleman driving a spirited horse engaged in a race with the riders and was beaten by Terront, the French rider, in about three-quarters of a mile," the Post reported.

In 1896, The Boston Globe highlighted the work of the first club: "The name and fame of the Boston Bicycle Club has gone all over this fair land, and is spreading to foreign shores, whither some ot its members have carried it."

Early U.S. bicycling clubs advocated for better roads for cyclists and often became a hub for social events. With the rise of automobiles early in the 20th century, the popularity of recreational cycling waned.

In 2020, interest in recreational cycling boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many cyclng shops in the United States reported shortages of bikes, according to Bicycle.com.
#2
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Remember when...
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 07:19:52 AM
Those records are really a blast from the past.
#3
Predator Hunting / Re: Steer attacked by a lion
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 05:35:39 AM
Leg roast :eyebrownod:
#4
Fishing Photos / Re: The Ice Men.
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 03:26:13 AM
Werent any good ice last year but its been one cold SOB this year, plenty of hardwater.
#5
Predator Hunting / Re: Steer attacked by a lion
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday at 01:36:17 AM
Best of luck!  You are due.  Too bad you didn't find out about it and get there within a few hours.





#6
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Remember when...
Last post by FinsnFur - February 10, 2025, 08:42:17 PM
#7
Fishing Photos / Re: The Ice Men.
Last post by FinsnFur - February 10, 2025, 08:40:00 PM
Days well spent :yoyo:
#8
The Tailgate / Today in history 2-10
Last post by remrogers - February 10, 2025, 11:18:24 AM
2014
Feb 10
Iconic child star Shirley Temple dies at 85

On February 10, 2014, Shirley Temple Black, who as a child in the 1930s became one of Hollywood's most successful stars, dies at her Woodside, California, home at age 85. The plucky, curly-haired performer sang, danced and acted in dozens of films by the time she was a teen; as an adult, she gave up making movies and served as a U.S. diplomat.

Born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California, Temple began taking dance lessons when she was three. In 1932, she was discovered by an agent and cast in a series of short films called Baby Burlesks. Her career took off in 1934, when she appeared in the film Stand Up and Cheer then went on to star in such movies as Little Miss Marker (1934), in which she played a girl left with a bookie as an IOU for her father's bet on a horse; Bright Eyes (1934), which featured her signature song "On the Good Ship Lollipop"; The Little Colonel (1935), the first of four films she made with African American entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; and Curly Top (1935), which included another one of her hit songs, "Animal Crackers in My Soup." With America in the midst of the Great Depression, Temple's sunny optimism lifted the spirits of movie audiences and helped make her the nation's top box-office draw during the second half of the 1930s. (President Franklin Roosevelt once proclaimed, "As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.") Among Temple's other films credits from this era are Heidi (1937), Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938).

Temple's cinematic career cooled when she entered her teens although she continued to work. The actress married at age 17 in 1945, only to divorce in 1949, a year after giving birth to her first child. In December 1950, she wed businessman Charles Black, and that same month announced her retirement from movie making.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Temple, who had two children with her second husband, returned briefly to the entertainment business and hosted a TV show. She also became active in California's Republican Party and in 1967 made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1969, President Richard Nixon named her a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.

In 1972, Temple underwent treatment for breast cancer and became one of the first well-known women to speak out about the disease. From 1974 to 1976, she was President Gerald Ford's ambassador to Ghana, and won praise for her work in that role. She went on to serve as Ford's chief of protocol from 1976 to 1977. Under President George H.W. Bush, Temple was appointed the U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1989 and saw the collapse of communism in that country.

In 1999, Temple was named one of the 50 greatest screen legends by the American Film Institute.
#9
Predator Hunting / Steer attacked by a lion
Last post by 1snafu - February 10, 2025, 06:08:46 AM
It's been roughly a 3 weeks now. Since I heard about a cow being attacked by a lion. That occurred around 20 miles to my NorEast. It took me a few days to get the farmers name & address. So I drove to his farm & found him talking to a salesman near his machine shed. We visited for awhile & he shown me some pics of his steers wounds. It appeared the lion latched onto the cow's rump & hind quarters. Burying it's claws into the cow's flanks. Before it was finally bucked off. It appeared the lion sunk it's fangs into the cow's lower right leg, biting out a chunk of meat. The farmer put the cow down. Butchered the meat. Then put part of one of it's legs out onto the field. Where the cow was attacked. He put a trail cam aimed one leg of that cow.

We have snow coming this wk. Hopefully I can get on a fresh track. Then gain permission to hunt that land. I've talked to a handful of landowners in that area over the last 10+ years or so. Who have seen a lion in the area. There was a breeding female in that area, some yrs back.
#10
Fishing Photos / The Ice Men.
Last post by nastygunz - February 10, 2025, 02:47:45 AM
The boys have been hitting it hard this year🐟🐟🐟