7 retro strollers make you glad you don't live in olden times
by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes
Air filters, an antenna, crazy bare-metal wheels, not a five-point harness in sight -- these are the strollers nightmares are made of.
Just out for a fun stroll in Hextable, England in 1938, in "a stroller that is resistant against possible gas attacks," this photo's caption helpfully informs us.
Image courtesy Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo / Het Leven / Fotograaf onbekend
A mom on skates pushes a baby pram on skis on the ice in St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1926.
Image courtesy Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo
The caption for this 1921 photo of a stroller with a radio, antenna, and loudspeaker, says that the system is "to keep the baby quiet." Since those are dolls in the stroller, I think you've got a head start on the job. Image courtesy Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo / Het Leven / Fotograaf onbekend
This 1901 photo of a little boy pulling a baby over a curb was taken during an outbreak of bubonic plague in Sydney. The waterfront area where this photo was taken, The Rocks, was identified as a particularly dangerous area because the disease was carried by the fleas on the rats that came from ships.
Image courtesy State Records NSW
Oh, this" I was just going to push my baby in this off-balance standing pushcart down this long flight of concrete steps. (Stockholm, !955)
Image courtesy Stockholm Transport Museum
This 1917 image from the book The Babyhood of Wild Beasts assures us th...
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