Columbia Safety Bicycles

Pope Columbia Bicycle Ad Scribner's 1890
Pope Columbia Bicycle Ad Scribner’s 1890

This has nothing whatsoever to do with Albany, Schenectady or Troy history. However, my first two bicycles were Columbia bicycles, and so I was delighted to find this ad for Columbia Safety Bicycles, from the Pope Manufacturing Company of 77 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, in an 1890 edition of Scribner’s magazine.

How fortunate that they had companion machines!

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