Bernard Mammes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American racing cyclist
Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1911
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 27-Feb-2000
Profession: sport cyclist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Bernard Mammes
- Bernard Mammes (September 3, 1911 – February 27, 2000) was an American cyclist.
- Born in Manhattan, Mammes moved with his family to Rockaway Park, Queens around 1920.
- His father owned an ice cream parlor, where Mammes worked as a youth. Taking place during the depression, many thought the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, was going to be an economic failure.
- Even so, after a few film stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford volunteered to entertain, 37 countries sent over 1300 athletes to the games.
- They were a huge success.
- This was the first time an Olympic Village would be built for the games, and competitors such as Babe Didrikson, Eddie Tolan and Luigi Beccali made headlines.
- Mammes won a position as a cyclist, and placed 8th in the 1000m time trial with a time of 1 hour and 18 minutes.Answering the call of his country, he entered the American Armed Forces, where he served as a Staff Sergeant in World War II.
- In 1945, he married Nancy, and had four children. After being discharged, he returned to New York, partnering with his father in Mammes' Ice Cream, which had become well known in Rockaway.
- Until 1968, he worked in the parlor from May through September, while working at Hegarty and Co., from which he retired after 25 years.
- From 1975 until his final retirement in 1998 at age 86, Mammes worked at Gateway National Park's Breezy Point Unit at Riis Park. Bernard Mammes is buried at St.
- Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island.
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