{"id":29989,"date":"2012-05-18T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T21:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=29989"},"modified":"2012-05-18T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T21:52:00","slug":"bike-to-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=29989","title":{"rendered":"Bike to Work Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, 5\/18\/12, is Bike to Work Day<\/a>, which I heard over the car radio stuck in traffic. So I have no cycling adventure to recount, but it’s the perfect opportunity to share this very cool photo of Humphrey Bogart cycling on a Warner Brothers Studio backlot circa 1945.
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\nThe photograph comes from The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> film critic Steven Rea’s book Hollywood Rides A Bike; Cycling With The Star<\/em>s, published by Angel City Press, and is also on Rea’s blog Rides A Bike.<\/a> My town of Long Beach<\/a> has invested in cycling in a big way, with designated one-way streets and bike lanes. Bike thievery is at an all-time high, too, as my husband will woefully attest. I’ve been looking forward to choosing a basket for my bike to load up with all the tomatoes and beans from my little community garden plot about a mile away — except that tomatoes now seem a long shot this summer. The plants are dying, and the soil, after no supplemental irrigation for two weeks, continues to be a squelchy, heavy mud. Explanations range among (A) I’m the worst vegetable gardener that’s ever lived; (B) a fellow gardener has been surreptitiously turning my plot into a bog for reasons unknown; or (C) there’s a leaky pipe. More on this sad state of affairs later.<\/p>\n

But what a nice photo of Bogie. Which also illustrates that funny biking clothing is strictly optional.<\/p>\n

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