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Title
847-2
Date(s)
- 1935-04-11 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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At 81 years old, Miss Lucy D. Farrar was a living testament to the health benefits of bicycle riding. In 1935, when this photograph was taken, Miss Farrar had been an avid bicyclist for 40 years, since the cyclist craze in the Gay Nineties. She came to Tacoma in 1914 and purchased the bicycle that she is pictured riding in a 1917 Red Cross salvage sale. Miss Farrar lived at 5647 So. Alder and had a second home on South American Lake to which she cycled, a round trip of 14 miles. (T. Times 4/11/1935, pg. 8)
Older people--Tacoma--1930-1940; Cycling; Bicycles & tricycles--1930-1940; Farrar, Lucy;