Classic & Vintage - Early thirties bike

I was at the library yesterday looking through a book, “The American Bicycle”. I was in hopes of finding the bicycle I had as a boy in about 1934. It was a pre balloon tires with tubeless tubular tires. I acquired it in exchange for a $2.00 debt. It was in a box, completely disassembled by the previous owner, a spoiled brat. However the book has a complete blank between about 1920 and 1934 with the introduction of the balloon tired bikes. No one in my neighborhood had a balloon tired bike till about 1936. Does anyone know of a source that would cover that missing part of the American bicycle history? My bike was advertised in the Boys Life magazine. The ad stressed the speed of this bike, and indeed I could beat the pants off of any balloon tired biker.

Try this url out.

http://nostalgic.net/arc/bicycles/

Thanks a lot meatwad: That site was excellent for my purpose even though it convinced me that I will never know the make of that old bike. The style was so common in the early thirties and even the paint jobs that have survived are all similar red and white. I did realize that my brake was not Morrow but a New Departure from the pictures. The dates on all of these bikes seem too early for me. Either that or it took years to get a product to market in those days. Of course it was depression years.

"Balloon" tires actually date back to the 1920's, and "clincher" tires date back to the 1890's.

Bicycles as serious transportation for adults became less common from the 20's, as cars increased in popularity. Those old 'single tube' tubulars (really little more than a really thick innertube, BTW) were pretty much obsoltete here by the late teens.