Picture: Going To YosemiteFrank F. Bunker & Walter Bradley Hill (teacher and principal at Garden
Grove Grammar School), going to Yosemite; July 1896.
I really was touched with this photo my imagination went wild thinking which route did these guys take "1896" the grape vine and Ridge Route was just a wagon trail, Cajon pass the same thing, Route 1 along the coast probably not much better it boggles the mind, did they make it, how many tires and patches did they use, a single speed bike and there gear wrapped up and tied to the handle bars, WOW, what an adventure; anyway I did a little restore and more to this photo, I added the color because I think these guys deserved a little color for there efforts. There is a lot more that could have been done BUT old photos like this become very tedious I just like to remove the most obvious and leave it be, I thought adding a little color to this photo gave it a bit more depth without taking to much of it's old age flare away from it. One other thing I noticed while I was going through pictures of the late 1800s and early 1900s was the fact people would be showing off there bicycles it seemed like there was always a bicycle in the picture, some how you almost don't notice it because well it's just a bicycle but at that time bicycles were a big deal and to own one was a big deal, but as time went on and the coming of the automobile well there was no place for the bicycle anymore, horses were scared of them and people in cars thought they were a nuisance and so the automobile & the motorcycle became the mode of travel in America but at one time for a short while the bicycle was king and it shows in this picture.
Enjoy, Bill
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