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| Wald Manufacturing Co of Maysville, KY (see the picture gallery) |
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| Wald`s beginning was around 1905 at which time the Pawsat brothers had a bike shop in Sheboygan, WI, where they invented and produced a tire repair tool. The little shop served the brothers well but the brothers decided to move to a different state. In 1924 they moved the company to Maysville, KY, where they are still located and still producing good quality American made parts for bicycles and other consumer goods. Howie`s family began dealing in Wald merchandise in 1939 and Wald has been an important part of the Cohen family`s participation within the bicycle industry ever since. I recall that during the 1950`s, 1960`s and 1970`s, Wald produced a huge number of important parts used for repairing and producing bicycles, including but not limited to: axle sets & individual parts, BB sets & individual parts, head sets & individual parts, seat posts, seat clamps, the best serrated washers #318, fenders, fender braces, training wheel sets, baskets, etc. It would have been difficult to find a Bike Shop that didn`t stock some Wald products.
Additional text & pictures pending. See the picture gallery. Rubin and Carlton Pawsat, Lonnie Franke, May Maley, Dan Crum. Ralph Pawsat,. . .
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Photo from Wald's web site, http://waldsports.com/index.cfm/waldheritage.html.
The two elderly gents are the Pawsat brothers, Ewald and Herman. The lower picture is of employees in the Wald Maysville factory. Howie had an arms length relationship with the company. |
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The Pawsat brothers, Ewald and Herman, the founders of Wald, retire from the company. Two of Ewald's sons, Ruben and Carlton took over management of the company. Howie was well acquainted with both of them and they refused to supply Wald products directly to WCCSC because of their business relationship with the Harry Wilson Sales Agency who was also located in Los Angeles. Therefore, WCCSC ordered our Wald product requirements through Pettee Cycle and the merchandise was shipped from Wald to Pettee and then Pettee shipped it on to WCCSC. It was a little more expensive and troublesome for WCCSC, but the Wald line of products were important to the dealers in the 1950's and 1960's, so we did what we had to do. This is an article that was published in the January 1964 issue of the American Bicyclist magazine. |
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2010, May 4th, a letter from Wald's Ralph A. Pawsat to friend Gene Smith (aka Smitty) wherein Wald sent two sets of scanned copies (one for Smitty & one for Howie) of Wald's Golden Anniversary article which appeared in the January/December 1955 issue of the American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist trade magazine. |
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The first page of the 6-page article of Wald's Golden Anniversary article that appeared in the 1955 January/December issue of the trade magazine American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist. The article started on page-50 of the magazine. |
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The second page of the 6-page article of Wald's Golden Anniversary article that appeared in the 1955 January/December issue of the trade magazine American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist. The article started on page-50 of the magazine. |
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The third page of the 6-page article of Wald's Golden Anniversary article that appeared in the 1955 January/December issue of the trade magazine American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist. The article started on page-50 of the magazine. |
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The fourth page of the 6-page article of Wald's Golden Anniversary article that appeared in the 1955 January/December issue of the trade magazine American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist. The article started on page-50 of the magazine. |
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The fifth page of the 6-page article of Wald's Golden Anniversary article that appeared in the 1955 January/December issue of the trade magazine American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist. The article started on page-50 of the magazine. |
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The sixth page of the 6-page article of Wald's Golden Anniversary article that appeared in the 1955 January/December issue of the trade magazine American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist. The article started on page-50 of the magazine. |
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The CD containing images of the American Bicyclist 1955 Dec/Jan article about Wald's 50th Anniversary (pages 50-55) |
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