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Step-dad's attic junk - worth my time?
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ridingtoy
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Thanks for posting the photos!
The way the seat pad in the stroller is made with the curved leg hole areas, it could well be a 1960s Strolee. There should be a name on the label hanging from the back or a tag sewn on the crotch strap near the snap. My second guess would be Peterson before they joined with Cosco, though they usually had a more square shaped seat pad back then without the leg opening curves. The stroller would have had a metal rung foot rest which would swing up and out as a leg rest for when a child was reclining for a nap.
The walker is a tough one to ID. It looks pretty generic and there were different mfrs back in the 1960s making very similar walkers. Hate to say it, but in the condition they are in I don't believe they'd have a great deal of value, even to a retro baby gear collector.
Dave
The way the seat pad in the stroller is made with the curved leg hole areas, it could well be a 1960s Strolee. There should be a name on the label hanging from the back or a tag sewn on the crotch strap near the snap. My second guess would be Peterson before they joined with Cosco, though they usually had a more square shaped seat pad back then without the leg opening curves. The stroller would have had a metal rung foot rest which would swing up and out as a leg rest for when a child was reclining for a nap.
The walker is a tough one to ID. It looks pretty generic and there were different mfrs back in the 1960s making very similar walkers. Hate to say it, but in the condition they are in I don't believe they'd have a great deal of value, even to a retro baby gear collector.
Dave
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partsguy
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
Damn. the stroller is in very nice shape, it would be a shame if I had to toss them in the scrap yard baler. No place will take these ancient things as donations so if I can't sell or donate them, the scrap yard is the only option.
The stroller is from 1963 as my step-dad was an only child and that is the year he was born. I suspect the walker is from the same year as well.
Like I said, are you sure the stroller is scrap? Not a spot of rust anywhere and the pics suck but I didn't take them. It shined out in the sun light.
The stroller is from 1963 as my step-dad was an only child and that is the year he was born. I suspect the walker is from the same year as well.
Like I said, are you sure the stroller is scrap? Not a spot of rust anywhere and the pics suck but I didn't take them. It shined out in the sun light.
SJ_BIKER
Riding a 41 Super Deluxe
partsguy
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
I wish. He is an only child and the toys he did have were junk for the most part. Played with hard and pieces all over the house. Perhaps the msot valuable thing i found was an electric LEGO train set. I'm holding onto it in hopes of finding the last piece of track, I found the box, parts tray, and the majority of the major parts in the attic. Many parts for the cars and track pieces were in the garage in a box of musty and rusty slot car track behind a door in a dark room (for photo developing, never finished). There were Hotwheels but they all were beat to hell except for one. He said he left most of his in the rear window of the car and supposedly got melted. There was a Matchbox SF-5 track with the box that was roached, a Sizzlers PowerPit that got short circuited and full of mouse droppings. There were several vintage Monogram, Aurora, and Monogram model kits but they were never finished and the parts were left EVERYWHERE throughout the house. When I had the sale, I tossed everything into one box and sold them all for like $20.
In short...yes there toys...there was a 1972 Rapido Super DeLuxe 3-speed column shift with fancy fenders left in the shed where it decayed and rotted beyond repair. They left the GOOD STUFF in the garage, attic, or outside where it decayed and rotted but they left the TRASH in the house!
I'm not kidding...there were teaching papers from the 1960s-1980s in one bedroom, shelves and closets full of THOUSANDS of dusty old books, most of them textbooks and whatnot. Old VHS tapes, classical music tapes and old people music records (would some rock n' roll kill ya?), old tin foil in the kitchen cabinets, boxes of mason jars, tax returns from the '50s....I just get so frustrated with it.
His parents died in 1997 and 2007 and he had all this time to clean up this disaster but instead my mother and I have been the ones doing about 95% of the cleaning. I will never collect so much crap to burden my loved ones like this...ever.
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partsguy
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
Well I suppose you're right. At least for parts somebody may want it. I'm not sure I can visualize the missing part you're talking about though.
ridingtoy
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Take a look at this similar stroller on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/141061953491?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
The part with the metal chrome rungs above the wheels should also be on the one you have. It keeps the child from having their feet drag on the ground or, raised up, having their legs hang down when they are reclined and taking a nap. There should be some holes on the frame on each side at the bottom where the pivoting support rods would have attached it to the stroller. If you came across anything that looks like that while cleaning out junk, you know what it goes to now. Someone who was good at hoarding would most likely have kept it somewhere.
Dave
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