The Cadilac of Baby Buggies!
"With its nicely curved steel body, this Stroll-O-Chair is reminiscent of its
English cousins. The frame design is almost identical to that used in the 1940s,
and, in fact, changed very little over the years until the company went out of
business in the 1990s."
"Rex Manufacturers, operating from 1949 to 1979 in New York, created the "Stroll-o-Chair". The carriages converted from a buggy to multiple baby equipment -- a stroller, high chair and bassinet."  There a  
The carriage
Kristy, in her very own Stroll-o-Chair on her 1st birthday. This is upstairs at 1503 Rebecca Street. We are in the dining room, looking towards the kitchen, on the west side of the house. The little bedroom is to our right, the North. The bigger bedroom, behind us to the east. The living room is to our left (open to this dining room) or to the south.
The bathroom is tucked around the corner from this room, between the kitchen and the little bedroom. There are old fashioned bathroom fixtures and a claw foot tub. There are tiny white tiles on the floor. I loved the old fashioned medicine cabinet in the wall and the big old tub. I could stretch out and the water heater was big enough to fill it to the brim!  |
New baby Erica with sister Kristy.
In front of the Yellow Shrub Rose : )
Using the still spiffy new Stroll-o-Chair.
Ah, the good "Days of my Life"
We still lived upstairs at this time.
Picnic at the Smith Villa Library park.
Both girls wearing their home-made, hooded wool coats.
Poor third child, boy baby.
He gets left in the Stroll-O-Chair
with a blanket over his head.
I learned quick with this little ball of fire,
don't wake a sleeping baby!
This was a good day. Winter was weakening. A hint of spring in the air. Mama had the desire and the energy to buddle three precious babies, load them on the Stroll-o-Chair and wheel them the two or three blocks to the park for a picnic. We are happy and laughing, enjoying life.
4 comments:
The pics of the stroll a chair look sort of . . . well, like a torture device. Or, a wheel chair! But I bet they were a good thing to have! I remember that tiny upstairs bathroom.
When you took over both floors, the bedrooms were still upstairs . . . so what did we do in the kitchen and living and dining rooms that were up there? I don't remember them. I remember your bedroom and ours and the downstairs living and dining rooms. Help!
well, more like a wheel chair then a torture device. It was built sturdy and would have lasted forever. After we had the whole house, we must have shut off the bedrooms upstairs because I remember your dad and I sleeping in the middle room on a hide-a-bed. We must have moved Craig out of the dining room into one bedroom and put you girls in the other bedroom. But wow! that was a long stairway and I would have thought I would have worried too much to sleep upstairs? We'll have to do some thinking on that!
I was so thrilled to see you photos. I had one of these units that I got for my daughter who was born in 1971. That contraption would convert into so many combinations, I just loved it. And all those trim pieces, side pieces, all popped out for cleaning, and the buggy would fold down to save space. I felt like she was sooo safe in it, and it lasted much longer than for my 2 daughters. Thanks again!
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