JOE YANUL - MOTORCYCLE COPPER
 STAR # 5364    BY THOMAS YANUL

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CHICAGO MOTORCYCLE POLICEMEN-MARCH 1948  MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN AT HARLEY-DAVIDSON PLANT PICKING UP 1ST GROUP OF 16  3-WHEEL CYCLES ON RIGHT, FOUR H-D PEOPLE, 2ND FROM RIGHT IS WM. H. DAVIDSON  WHO WOULD LATER BECOME H-D PRESIDENT.
JOE YANUL IS ON THE RIGHT END OF THE 16 OFFICERS

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 LEFT HALF          RIGHT HALF

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN AT HARLEY-DAVIDSON PLANT
PROBABLY 1947 OR 48 WHEN THE CPD CHANGED OVER FROM INDIAN MOTORCYCLES TO HARLEY-DAVIDSON -  WE HAVE A PHOTO DATED AUG 1948 SHOWING JOE WITH HIS HARLEY.
 MY DAD WAS NOT CRAZY ABOUT THE H-D'S - HE SAID THEY WERE HARD TO START WHEN THEY WERE HOT. YANUL IS THIRD FROM RIGHT.

TRAFFIC DIVISION ARM PATCH TAKEN FROM JOE'S OLD UNIFORM SAME AS SEEN ON SHIRT, RIGHT

SHOWS  VERSION OF THE WINGED WHEEL MOTORCYCLE  DIVISION PATCH WORN ON  SHIRT. ANOTHER MORE  FORMAL PATCH APPEARSTO  HAVE BEEN WORN ON  DRESS JACKET UNIFORM.
 NEED BETTER PHOTO.

JOE YANUL WRITING TICKET WITH PARTNER BUD EGAN ARCHER AVENUE WAS THEIR BEAT SPEEDOMETER ON JOE'S BIKE READS 14,865 MILES

YANUL (CENTER) AND OTHER OFFICERS
AT TIRE SHOP FOR SOME PR PHOTO
MAYBE NEW SAFETY TUBES FOR THE
THREE WHEELERS

YANUL WRITES TICKET FOR BUS DRIVER, WHO SAID
 "YOU CAN'T GIVE ME A TICKET-I WORK FOR THE CHICAGO MOTOR COACH CO.
"JOE SAID "WATCH ME"
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AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE ABOVE PHOTO, ARCHER AVENUE IN THE 40'S & 50'S WAS A STREET OF GRANITE PAVERS AND OLD STREETCAR RAILS.  RIDING A MOTOCYCLE  IN WET WEATHER WAS A CHALLENGE.

JOE TOOK SEVERAL SPILLS UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS, ONE OF WHICH WORE THE METAL FRONT WHEEL FOOT REST ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH BEFORE THE BIKE STOPPED.

THE SPARKS WERE FLYING HE SAID, AND ITS THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED HIS LEG FROM BECOMING PART OF THE PAVEMENT.