Originally Posted by
Road Fan
Steve, Richard Schwinn of Waterford fame is a descendent of the Chicago company. Perhaps there might be some family lore?
could be??
There was some weird/interesting stuff in the museum in Chicago, and I suspect not all of were Schwinn products. Heaven only knows how big the collection actually was. Sometime after(?) my photo, there was a bike museum in downtown Chicago, not far from Navy Pier. Lots of bikes, which I assume all/mostly went to New Bremmen.
They seem to have been happy to show the collection off, at least based on the fact that they put part of the collection on display at the 19th RAGBRAI in 1991. I managed to take a few photos, back in the pre-digital days of photography.....
You never know what you'll see on RAGBRAI!
Steve in Peoria