History

The article I read was called A Round Trip Back to Houston, and it was a very interesting read. It was about the boom of bicycles in the 1890's and how a man named Frank Lenz started the interest in bicycles by attempting to circle the globe on a bicycle. The really interesting part is that a ton of the pictures and information about this journey was found by a man in Houston by total accident. The man was walking by a building being demolished and saw the workmen throw a box out of the attic, that split open and had hundreds of photo negatives inside. The man then purchased the negatives and they turned out to be from the journey of Frank Lenz. I though that it was very much a Houston thing that the workmen were going to throw the negatives out without even checking what they were. Overall I found it interesting though because I rarely thing about when bikes where invented and how they became what they are today.