![An old color photo of Royer and Williams standing on a trail next to a man showing them a high-wheel bicycle. The note reads: “Jeanette — If they get one with training wheels, I’ll race you home. Charley.”](https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/SMA-jeanette-williams-mayor-royer-750x744.jpg)
First-year Seattle Mayor Charley Royer sent this photo to City Councilmember Jeanette Williams following the opening of the first section of the Burke-Gilman Trail in 1978. On it he wrote, “Jeanette — If they get one with training wheels, I’ll race you home. — Charley.”
Williams died in 2008, and now Royer died Friday morning, the Seattle Times reported. He was 84.
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