An article from the Salina Journal about the Coasters at the Smoky Hill River Festival…

Looking at the rows of Schwinn, Evans, Iver Johnson and other vintage bicycles, Jim Kirk couldn’t help but be nostalgic.

“I used to ride some of these,” the Salina man said. “I used to have a Schwinn. These take me back to my childhood.”

Kirk was visiting an exhibit Friday, titled “Art of the Bicycle,” near the Bicentennial Center bridge entrance to the Smoky Hill River Festival. The exhibit was a collection of vintage, factory-fresh and modified bicycles, along with a few manufactured oddities and sculptures, that attempts to show a time-capsule history of the bicycle and what it has meant to generations of children and adults.

Read the full article here.