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Rocking Chairs: Rockers
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Rocking chairs are enduring symbols of age and wisdom. Rocking chairs were a fixture of homes in the old days because many of the old people then led active lives and the rocker was their reward for their hard toil. It was probably around the ‘80s when the rocker lost its significance, as many of the old people at that time we’re living their lives a lot different from the old people of the old days. A lot of old people now are living active lives, thanks to the advances in medicine and the growing awareness for health and well-being which reached a certain maturity at that time. Whereas old people of old times spent their remaining days at home, providing wise counsel to their children’s families, old people nowadays are living their remaining years with a whole lot of activities. Thanks to old age communities, old people who can still live their lives actively are finding new opportunities for socializing.
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Rocking and swinging chairs for infants were another panacea--this time for fussy babies and harried mothers. The Glascock Baby Jumper and Rocking Chair, patented in Muncie, Indiana, in 1900, was one of many such baby swings, which have continued in popularity to the present. (26) A convertible child's chair produced by several different factories, among them Hale, Kilburn and Company (established 1873) in Philadelphia and Thompson, Perley and White of Boston, could he made into a rocker, carriage, or a high chair (see Fig. 5).
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Many traditional rocking chairs are designed to coordinate with various crib designs and finishes so you can coordinate your entire nursery. You can add rocking chair cushions to match your nursery. When you want to move your rocking chair to another room in your house, you can change the cushions to match the décor of the new room. If you prefer the glider rocker, you can buy a glider rocker with natural upholstery that will match any décor.
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President John F. Kennedy helped popularize the notion that rocking chairs help the back. He loved his American oak rocker so much that he took it around the world with him on Air Force One. An Internet retailer, www.newyorkfirst.com, sells a reproduction of the chair for $295.
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Del Cover has designed four different award-winning rocking chairs from Windsor to several contemporary designs. One of the chairs is included in the Permanente collection at the Mingui Museum in San Diego. Several can be seen at the Del cover Woodworking website-delcoverwoodworking.com including the slat back contemporary rocker. This chair ... available in plan form and is taught at the American Sycamore School.
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The original inventor of the rocking chair is still unknown. Though some stories attribute its invention to Benjamin Franklin, no historical evidence can prove them right. Historians can only trace the rocking chair's origins to North America during the early 18th century. They were originally used in gardens and were just ordinary chairs with two rockers at their bottoms. It was in 1725 that early rocking chairs first appeared in England. They were ... used as garden chairs and had hoop-shaped backs.
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