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Article: Early marketers knew how to sell bicycles built for two. (exhibition of bicycles through time at Pain-Webber Gallery, New York, NY)
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- Insight on the News
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- June 17, 1996
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A unique exhibit suggests that two-wheel transportation was sexier than Americans realize.
Americans long have been fascinated by transportation in all its modes, from the covered wagons of our pioneering ancestors to the airline industry today. So it's little wonder that the current exhibit at the Paine-Webber Gallery in New York, "Bicycles: History, Beauty, Fantasy", is drawing crowds daily. With the incessant noise and pollution generated by Manhattan's nonstop traffic, the bicycle appeals to America's nostalgia for a quieter, cleaner and healthier street life.
This exhibition makes fascinatingly clear that while the modes may have changed, the advertisers ...