This undated image by photographer Nina Leen is merely captioned “Boy On Bicycle.” It fails to mention the animal tail used as a mudflap at the end of the rear fender!
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This undated image by photographer Nina Leen is merely captioned “Boy On Bicycle.” It fails to mention the animal tail used as a mudflap at the end of the rear fender!
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Kinda looks like a fox tail.
books and a furry tail, foxy way to bike to school
My Human keeps threatening to get one of those things that allows smalll animals to be carried on a persons chest, or back, and take me for a bike ride. ;-D
It is funny tail, right? How did he get it? (I can’t remember such a mudflap used in Japan)
For you youngsters, it was common in the 20s, 30s and 40s to affix fox tails and raccoon tails to car antennae and other vehicular appendages.This looks much odder to our eyes than it would have back then. It was more likely intended as decoration than as a functional mudflap.
And check out the trussed pants on that guy!
Thanks KC. Somebody who knows cars (and don’t know cars) can probably figure out the year by looking at the autos on the street.