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Original vintage professional publicity and booking brochure for The Cyclettes, a two-person bicycle and unicycle specialty act active during the 1950s.
The brochure is illustrated throughout with period performance photographs and whimsical cycling artwork showing the act’s balancing, acrobatic, bicycle, and unicycle routines.
Promotional copy describes The Cyclettes as:
“Two performers whose mastery of tricks of the two-wheeler is exciting and extraordinary”
and emphasizes their:
Dynamic • Distinctive • Fascinating
performance style.
The act was marketed for a wide range of professional engagements, including:
Club dates
Hotels
Theaters
Sport shows
Amusement parks
Fairs
The brochure also states that The Cyclettes had appeared in major entertainment centers including Paris, Las Vegas, Montreal, and New York.
Independent television records confirm The Cyclettes performing on the circus television program Big Top as unicyclists on October 30, 1954, and again as bicyclists on November 12, 1955.
Based on those documented appearances, the brochure’s typography, design, and photographic content, it is conservatively dated circa 1954–1956.
The interior photographs show multiple balancing and trick-cycling routines, including tandem-style work, elevated balancing, unicycle stunts, and partner acrobatics using bicycles.
An excellent surviving example of mid-century professional circus and variety-act promotional material.
Original period brochure, not a modern reproduction.
Condition shows expected vintage professional-use and storage wear, including the original fold, light foxing/spotting, edge and corner wear, handling marks, and minor surface wear. Please review all photographs carefully for exact condition.
