Crowdsourced photo ID

By MattyC on Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:21am

So, my wife was given a reproduction of a photo when she took her job with the city several years ago. We love the picture and have it hanging in our home, but I have never been able (through moderate-to-no actual research) to discern the timeframe, location, or persons captured in the photo. I was hoping some of you could help me crowdsource the answer. Rather than pull it out of the frame and disturb what is kind of a flimsy copy, I took a reasonably good pic with my phone. Help me UHub, you're my only hope.

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Text on Sidecar

By Kaz on Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:28am.

"Commonwealth of Massachusetts Public Works"

Yup

By MattyC on Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:32am.

From the right-ish angle, the dapper fellow in the sidecar kinda-sorta looks like Coolidge. But the ears are sufficiently different for me to rule him out.

The bike itself looks like a WWII scout cycle, and I know that a lot of Army surplus materiel made its way into public service in their second lives, but that isn't enough for a solid date for me. It would also conclusively rule out Coolidge, as he died 4 years after he left the Presidency, in 1933.