Regarding the Pictures

I mentioned that I would expound, in regards to the pictures recently posted, so here is the update:

As you can surmise from the photo - Wendy has arrived. Tom and Wendy had dinner with Nancy and me last week. Dave also joined us on our outing to the Macaroni Grill. Everyone seemed to enjoy their meal and Wendy got to sample several Italian dishes. After dining, Dave (Pollock) Beales decided to create one of his famous, or is that infamous, drawings - using the supplied Macaroni Grill crayons and a paper mat. It proved to be an interesting capstone to our outing. Yes, in case you are wondering, it's a bird, of sorts, and I'm sure the true Pollock would have been amazed - or even dumbfounded - by the outcome. I plan to post the bird picture on EBay - with a reserve somewhere in the six figures. If it can work for a Pollock, why not a Beales?

The pictures from our visit to Davis, California prompted me to include a scan, from the book I bought at at Davis bookstore, showing what is probably the most famous of the Schwinn bicycles - the beautiful Black Phantom. Although I never owned a"Phantom" (my bike was a Schwinn Jaguar), I always liked the balloon tired, cruiser type bikes - over the skinny tired ones. The 1949 Black Phantom epitomizes the best attributes of a cruiser bike, to my way of thinking. You can still get a restored "Phantom" on EBay, provided you are willing to shell out between one and four thousand bucks. A little too steep, I think, for a bicycle that sold for less than a hundred dollars, back in the day.