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Your Argument Is Irrelevant

On my way back from Copenhagen to Amsterdam I received an e-mail from a friend in Ireland, saying ‘I saw this and thought of you’. Who knew he’d see me as an old skool pioneer…:)

Thanks, Hugh! Now I have to keep my eyes open for something appropriate for you…

Proverbial Fortitude

It’s an easy segway going from my post “Seasonal Shift” to this one. You think ‘Dutch’, you think ‘tulips’, ‘windmills’, ‘clogs’, ‘cheese’, ‘bicycles(!)’ ‘legal drugs’, ‘red light district’, etc (sigh)…but it’s also very likely you recognize we have ‘a thing’ with water.
Now, you can tell a lot from a people, their fabric and identity when [...]

Amsterdamize Classics : 1910 - 1930

This is the next part of my Amsterdamize Classics serie, covering the (visual) history of cycling in Amsterdam from 1895 to the present, using the online image library of the Amsterdam City Archive.
Today we embark on those troubling (mostly ‘interbellum‘) years from 1910 to 1930.

Go to the photoset to see them all and the descriptions.

Amsterdamize Classics : 1895 -1910

1896, Sarphatipark. Mr. J.D.B. Biengreber on his new bicycle, while the photographer’s sons watch him go by. Photo by Jacob Olie.

1906, Rembrandt Parties, decorated bicycles for flower corso in Vondelpark. Photo by Josephus Nuss.
See more in the Amsterdamize Classics : 1895 - 1910 photo set.

Amsterdamize Classics : 70’s Cycle Jive

My last post got me inspired to do some more research. Feeling like a history major again, I quickly opened up the online image library of the Amsterdam City Archive. Back in my college days, all was done by hand for lack of interwebs and/or no online access to anything. Now, of course, it’s like [...]

Amsterdam(ize) then & now

Corner of Dam Square and Damrak, view towards Central Station.
March 19, 1956

March 30, 2007

Dutch vintage bike scenes

I just have to post these vintage photos. The first one, a color(!) photo from 1953, depicting a group of cycling boy scouts pausing at a windmill, presumably reviewing the next stage of their trip. The second is from the 1930’s, part of the Zylstra family album, capturing two family members riding side by side, [...]

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