Frank Y. Pearne

Frank Y. Pearne, 12 AUGUST 1879 - 14 AUGUST 1967

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There has been some talk of an attempt to break the existing record between San Francisco and Los Angeles of 36 hours elapsed time by Neil Estrada. Having made the trip myself, over 63 years ago, I thought Bicycling! readers might be interested in what it was like before there were paved roads, road maps, signs, and all the other conveniences we take for granted when traveling today. The distance at that time was approximately 485 miles, while the signs on our superhighways now indicate 426.

I made the trip in the summer of 1902 while riding under the emblem of the Bay City Wheelmen of San Francisco, then the oldest bicycle club in the world.

Frank Y. Pearne, from Joel Metz' Bay City Wheelmen scrapbook site

17 May 1903 Cleveland relay cup, Los Angeles team photo (Bollo, Duvoll, Florentin, Chappee, Lampton, Pearne) 

Read more here: From San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1902 by Frank Y. Pearne

SERVICES SLATED FOR INDUSTRIALIST 

EL MONTE Funeral services for Frank Y. Pearne, 88, pioneer industrialist in El Monte, will be conducted today at 11 a.m. in the Wee Kirk of the Heather Church at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale. 

Pearne, board chairman of the Pearne and Lacy Machine Co. which he founded, died Thursday, after a year's illness resulting from a stroke. 

Born in lone, Nev., he came to California in 1890 where he became a champion cyclist. In 1899 he set a world's speed record - which stood for many years - with a friend for the mile tandem bicycle race. He also won several championships while riding for the Bay City Wheelmen in the early 1900s. 

A resident of Alhambra for many years, he lived in the Los Angeles Silver Lake area at the time of his death. 

Surviving are his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Anna Keber, Temple City; two sons, Frank, San Gabriel and F. J., Whittier, eight grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.

Frank Y. Pearne death notice 18 Dec 1967, Mon The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com