OFFICER JOE YANUL - DAUNTLESS

by Tom Yanul

JOE YANUL & FAMILY, ABOUT 1943

SONS TOMMY(3) RICHARD(7)

& WIFE ESTELLE (JERRY) YANUL

3RD SON MICHAEL CAME 1952

JOE YANUL

1ST POLICE I.D. PHOTO

NOVEMBER 1943

OFFICER JOE YANUL AS "DAUNTLESS" ON HIS HARLEY-DAVIDSON

 BY PHOTOG SON RICHARD YANUL - 1950

1944 - PATROLMAN JOE YANUL WALKING HIS BEAT

PROBABLY CHECKING LOCAL "ROWDIES"

OFFICER YANUL AS PAPER CUTOUT PROFILE

THE KIND DONE AT FAIRS & CIRCUSES.

SILHOUETTES NOW A BIG COLLECTABLE

PROBABLY AT 1330 SOUTH INDIANA AVE, MOTORCYCLE PATROL HDQTRS.

WHERE NEW BIKES WERE PREPARED, AND OLD BIKES REPAIRED.

 I CAN ONLY REMEMBER ONE TIME WHEN DAD SPOKE

 ABOUT FIRING HIS IVORY-HANDLED 38 POLICE SPECIAL,

 CHASING A STOLEN CAR AND FIRING SEVERAL SHOTS.

 THE CAR GOT AWAY BUT WAS FOUND A FEW DAYS LATER -

IN THE TRUNK WERE SEVERAL BULLET HOLES.

NOT BAD SHOOTING FROM A BOUNCING MOTORCYCLE.

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1971 RE-UNION  "SOLO RIDERS" THIS WAS THE FIRST RE-UNION OF SOLD RIDERS (TWO-WHEEL MOTORCYCLE) ANOTHER WAS HELD IN 1977,  AND A THIRD IN THE EARLY 1980'S I SUSPECT THAT WAS THE LAST.

AS OF THIS WRITING, SEPT 2003, THERE ARE ONLY TWO KNOWN "SOLOS" LEFT, BILL BARAN AND ANOTHER WHOSE NAME I WILL GET SOON.