Mahowald Cycle Co.

[Greystoke]

I was digging around in the Bike Barn (see some of my old posts) and I found this bike with a head badge that read "Mahowald Cycle Co." It is an old skip tooth. It had two other screws where another headbadge was removed. I think this one is the original. Anyway, I researched and found that Mahowald was a bike store in Mankato, MN. Started as a blacksmith shop and later sold Indian and Harley Davidson motor bikes. Here is a pic of the store back in 1915. There was a number of photos of this store with bikes. Not sure if I am going to buy the bike but neat to see the history of it. It could very well be in this photo! Brian

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

Cool picture, I would love to walk into that shop today. All that awesome inventory!

Cheers,
Dr. T

 

[dave the wave]

blow that pic. up with high res. and i bet you can tell what make the bicycles are and whats in the store display cases.

 

[heyslugger]

blow that pic. up with high res.

What he said!

 

[Greystoke]

I had a hard time getting this photo up clearly. Here is a link to the site with other bike shop photos. Maybe one of you who are more techno then me can put some on the forum. Thanks.

http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/se ... osuppress/

 

[dave the wave]

wow!! when you zoom in on the pics.you can see H-D bicycles and indian bicycles.how cool is that !!

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Awesome! Our LBS used to have a nice collection of old bikes on display (everything from tank bikes, few shaft drives, and a penny farthing or two) hung around the showroom but since the old guy passed and his son took over they have moved to a new location and he sold all of them. The son is a real snob and looks down his nose unless you're riding a new $1500+ FIxie or mountain bike.