The prior post of Rita Hayworth reminded me of her relationship with Howard Hughes. Few pics. One posed with Ida Lupino and the other, a young Howard with Harley Davidson bicycle he converted to electric.

Howard Hughes assembled what the paper called Houston’s first motorized bicycle at the age of 12 from parts of a motor that belonged to his father. Also around this time he had his father purchase a fine automobile, a Bearcat, for the sole purpose of disassembling and reassembling it, which the young Hughes did successfully. Though Hughes did have one childhood friend, neighbors recalled that when he wasn’t under his mother’s watchful house arrest, the solitary boy would ride his bike in circles around the driveway of their home in the Montrose area of Houston.