First vehicles

Boys on some interesting old vehicles, and wearing strange looking hats!

You must look closely at Chauncey on the left, who has some kind of horse between his legs, and he's holding the reins. 

My father has his eyes closed as his picture is taken while riding a tricycle.  Interesting shoes he's wearing!  And then there are those hats!  Any ideas as to what they were? Chauncey is riding what I think were called hobby horses...basically a broomstick with a horse's head on it.  I know I had one of these as a little girl too.

  I thought I'd posted these photos before, but I am unable to find a blog with them in it, so here are some of my father (born 1914) and his older brother, Chauncey.  My dad was the youngest for a long time, so they called him Junie (plus he had his fathers name so had Junior at the end of his own name!)  Chauncey was born in 1912, and I imagine these photos to have been taken around 1916-17.  The singed quality is probably a result of the album having burned in a house fire the family had in the 20s.

Here Chauncey has no hat, but my dad has what might be a bucket on his!  What a face, and he made that raised eyebrow look often throughout his life. Usually after telling a joke and waiting for you to get it!

But how about the auto?  That must have been run by pedal power.  Did you have a pedal powered car as a child? I don't know if I did, but my sons probably did.

It's Saturday again...time to look for old photos having to do with a meme...set by Sepia Saturday here.