Lori’s blog inspired to me post about another “bed” in the family. This one is about 40 years old and still in use. (frame, bed, mattress, and box springs—all original) It was purchased in 1970 for the then 20-month old Troy. His sister, Lisa, was due to be born and needed his crib. To guarantee that Troy wouldn’t fall out of the new big-boy bed, we put it in the corner of the room with the head board opposite the end wall, and then used a side rail. It worked great.
When Julie came along, Lisa graduated to the twin bed. And it continued down the line: Julie, Joel, Brad, Lori. Disclosure: Lori, being the baby of the family happily stayed in the crib until she was approximately 3 ½ years old. We just put the side to the crib down and it looked kind of like a day-bed. But once Lori graduated to the bed, she stayed with it well into her teen years. We did change out the head board to make it more “teen-ish.”
When Julie came along, Lisa graduated to the twin bed. And it continued down the line: Julie, Joel, Brad, Lori. Disclosure: Lori, being the baby of the family happily stayed in the crib until she was approximately 3 ½ years old. We just put the side to the crib down and it looked kind of like a day-bed. But once Lori graduated to the bed, she stayed with it well into her teen years. We did change out the head board to make it more “teen-ish.”
Lori - 1987
1981 - Walnut Creek - Brad leaps to the "bed"----------------1984 - Lori in her new big-girl bed
And then there were grandchidren----When Lori moved on to a queen-sized bed, our sweet original bed became the grandchildren’s bed and continues in use today, as demonstrated by Lydia and Afton.
We have no plans of putting this bed out on the curb. Great-grandchildren, it will be right here for you.
Original tags still in place; spots and stains from 40+ good years of use
Note: The mattress stains are covered with a good mattress pad, as well as a comfy egg-carton and we’ve heard no complaints from the grandchildren.
Note: The mattress stains are covered with a good mattress pad, as well as a comfy egg-carton and we’ve heard no complaints from the grandchildren.
9 comments:
I love a quality product.
I also love the picture of Troy jumping from one bed to the next, but I gotta admit I really loved it because the open dressers in the background with clothes hanging out. It made me feel happy that this is just part of raising kids.
My favorite is lori rockin' that ghetto-blaster! cassette tape style! Awww yeah!
I'm impressed that you have a mattress with Ortho-Edge, Relco, Fiberlock, AND Sanitex. No wonder it's lasted almost 3 generations!
going literary for the second time this month (apologies in advance), i'm reminded of a passage from Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.
"What voices overheard, finders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper’s stained foliage, candlestubs lit to rotate in the air above him, prefiguring a cigarette he or a friend must fall asleep someday smoking, thus to end among the flaming, secret salts held all those years by the insatiable stuffing of a mattress that could keep vestiges of every nightmare sweat, helpless overflowing bladder, ... like a memory bank to the computer of the lost?"
I look perfectly natural lounging with my boom box on my legs and chatting on the phone with a friend. Like any hip preteen would do. Mom must have just happened to wander in and caught me doing my normal stuff.
This is such a sweet post! I love the pictures and the history of the bed. I have my original bed frame from growing up in my boys room now. It's an iron bed frame and has been painted many colors. Blue, pink, white and yellow while I used it and now it is black for the Robby. I love it.
I have always loved the one of Brad jumping from bed to bed. I remember doing that so many times.
btw, i'm kinda missing that birthmark, brad.
When i saw this photo I seriously almost forgot I used to have it. And btw Joel is freaking me out with these literary references. Or to quoth from Sir Edgar Hofflepoff: "twas by the warm yet cold glow of my laptop that my memory of a birthmark gone by hath "lighted" upon me."
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