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Retro tourism poster from the 1950's [we think] promoting Denmark as a tourist destination. Using that quintessential icon of Danishness - Woman on Bike. Once again, once again... it's not just us. We are merely continuing a century long tradition with this blog. The child's seat in the artwork is still in use today. Great to have the kid up front as opposed to sitting on a plastic contraption behind you.
'The Spirit of the Wheel', above, was one of the many images celebrating the bicycle's liberating quality back in the bicycle boom at the end of the 1800's.
Ironically the artwork is from the cover of the New York magazine 'Truth' back on 22 August 1896. Something went horribly wrong 'over there' between then and now.:-)
And while we're on this retro journey, here's a film still from Hitchcock's 'Topaz', filmed in Copenhagen and, not surprisingly, featuring a girl on a bike.
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