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A Columbia County Boy's Recollections and Memories of Columbia County Florida (2012) Lenvil H. Dicks

within two miles ofthe house was our front paved walkway which was only about 20 feet long,
and everything else was sand I probably could not have ridden a bicycle there if 1 had one,
although when 1 did learn to ride a bicycle, it was a bicycle that belonged to my friend Donald
Adams down near Pine Grove Church near Bronson, where my daddy was a Pastor, and where if
we were going to compare who had the deepest sand, they would have probably won out.
Anyway, when I learned to ride his bicycle it was in deep sand, and I suppose that is probably
what got me started to wanting a bicycle.

After I got out ofthe army in March of 1948, the first thing I did was to go and buy me a bicycle
that had a small motor on it, and had been adapted to become sort of a poor boy’s motorcycle. I
enjoyed that motor bike up until I headed out on the highway one Saturday afternoon going
through Lulu, and the front fork broke and the whole front end of the bicycle dropped down on
the pavement, throwing me over the handle bars, and I am amazed that 1 did not get seriously
injured. I was probably going about 25 or 30 miles an hour when that happened, and I did not
even bother to get the thing repaired.

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