A young man and his sidecar with a cabin. Lebanon, around 1925. (Credit: Georges Boustany Collection)
This photo is one of the most unusual in my collection: here is a motorcycle with a sidecar cab. This machine is so rare that I haven't found a similar one, neither online nor in my hundred years of Lebanese archives. An all the more exceptional scene as it was taken by a street photographer in Lebanon, as indicated by the type of print, the license plate, and the environment.It took some daring, in the mid-1920s, to mount such a machine, without any protection and on such treacherous roads. The man, almost beardless, is surprisingly young, and this perhaps explains it. Squinting eyes in the pale light of a sunless day, white shirt under a dark suit, the tie encasing a collar typical of those years, he is probably not the owner of the beast. His New Imperial, probably acquired by an official representation whose flag is mounted on...
This photo is one of the most unusual in my collection: here is a motorcycle with a sidecar cab. This machine is so rare that I haven't found a similar one, neither online nor in my hundred years of Lebanese archives. An all the more exceptional scene as it was taken by a street photographer in Lebanon, as indicated by the type of print, the license plate, and the environment.It took some daring, in the mid-1920s, to mount such a machine, without any protection and on such treacherous roads. The man, almost beardless, is surprisingly young, and this perhaps explains it. Squinting eyes in the pale light of a sunless day, white shirt under a dark suit, the tie encasing a collar typical of those years, he is probably not the owner of the beast. His New Imperial, probably acquired by an official representation whose flag is mounted on...
