{"id":1396,"date":"2014-07-31T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:43:35","slug":"bike-safety-c-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/2014\/07\/31\/bike-safety-c-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike safety c. 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Published July 31, 2014 by <a href=\"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/the-historyapolis-lab\/#kirsten\">Kirsten Delegard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"lead-para\">\n<p>Sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s, Walter Scott demonstrated for a newspaper photographer the common (and dangerous) practice of &#8220;hitching&#8221; a bike on a car for speed and thrills. According to the photo caption, the boy lived at 814 Hawthorne Avenue, a neighborhood on the north edge of downtown that was flattened first by the construction of the Farmer&#8217;s Market and then the freeway.\u00a0Since the lad gave his name and address to a reporter, it&#8217;s not likely he was trying to hide his behavior from his mother. The image was probably created as part of a public safety campaign. Now it&#8217;s in the collection of historic newspaper photos at the Hennepin County Libraries Special Collections. Thanks to citizen-researcher Rita Yeada for locating and digitizing this and so many other amazing images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published July 31, 2014 by Kirsten Delegard Sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s, Walter Scott demonstrated for a newspaper photographer the common (and dangerous) practice of &#8220;hitching&#8221; a bike on a car for speed and thrills. According to the photo caption, the boy lived at 814 Hawthorne Avenue, a neighborhood on the north&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}