Flyer advertising an excursion to Bay St. Louis circa 1890.
This file appears in: The Clubhouse of the Louisiana Cycling Club: Completed 1890
The cyclists and their friends (often young women) traveled by train to the Mississippi beach resort town whose shell road along the beach offered ideal riding conditions.
Louisiana Cycling Club Spokes Scrapbook, accession 98-62-L, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection
This file appears in: The Clubhouse of the Louisiana Cycling Club: Completed 1890
The Clubhouse of the Louisiana Cycling Club: Completed 1890
In August of 1890, work was completed on the clubhouse of the Louisiana Cycling Club (LCC) at 1637 Octavia Street. The Queen Anne-style building still stands at that address. The party celebrating its…