Intense One said: Seemed like he liked you...maybe you'll be mentioned in a will at some point! Thanks for sharing your awesome memory event! Click to expand...

With 116 grandchildren, I find it unlikely, but it was a fun experience, anyway--and really neat to see the bicycles being enjoyed by younger generations rather than gathering dust. There was another local gentleman who had a Schwinn Cycletruck that he used to ride around. One day I asked him if he would sell it, and he said, "No, this bicycle is very special to me, but I'll tell you what, I'll add you in my will." He ended up passing away, and his relatives contacted me and said that I could take the bicycle. So, I went to the house to pick it up (he always left it parked on the side of the garage), and the bike was gone. I asked the neighbor if she knew what had happened to it. She told me that she took it upon herself to give it to the neighbors down the road.So, I went to those neighbors (whom I knew--I knew almost everyone in the town), and they said, "Nope, it's ours now." I was really disappointed. These same neighbors had a 1940s Schwinn The World B-6 with springer fork and front wheel brake that I had been trying to buy, but it was the father's childhood bike, so I'm glad they valued it enough to keep it in the family. I think it's a shame when families don't want to keep heirlooms like that. My consolation prize was a smashed-up radio that was covered in snow on the property. I took it home, used body filler and glue to repair the housing, painted it, and plugged it in to discover that it worked (that same radio is pictured below).Speaking of Cycletrucks, our post office had a pre-war Cycletruck on display at the counter. My friend's postal worker father said he used to use it when he worked for the post office as a boy.On a related note, the town of Midway, Utah was full of Schwinn Twinn tandems--it seemed that every block had one. Russell M. Nelson's summer home behind my house had a white one, a house a block away had a gold one, another house a block away had a blue one, a guy a few blocks away had a yellow one he had me repair, I found a chainguard from a red one on the side of the road by my house, so I tied it to the fence hoping the owners would see it, but no one claimed it, so I sold it to a guy who needed one. I bought a nice green one locally and as far as I know, my parents still have it.