Baby buggys and car seats

My sister, Helen, and I had two boys close together and lived in small apartments in Topeka. Our mother went looking for a buggy for us and found just the thing at a Topeka furniture store. It was a navy blue canvas buggy but it had a section that dropped down in the front so when they got older their feet could dangle. It folded up good so could go in a car and was canvas so was not heavy. It was great to have beside your bed. It must have been rainproof also as it was great on a rainy day if you were caught out away from home.

I used it through all five children and I think my grandchildren slept in it when they visited. When Ray worked for the Topeka paper and we lived four blocks from the paper he called one night to say a drug store, Walgreens, was on fire and did I want to come down. Steve was asleep in the buggy so I put on my coat, added another blanket and went out the door the three blocks to the fire on the corner of Kansas Ave and 8th street. Steve slept right through the excitement and Ray walked home with us at three in the morning. I really should give the buggy to someone as it is under the bed in one of the back bedrooms and is as good as it was when we got it, although the canvas is a little faded now. Maybe they don't put children in buggies anymore. I think they are generally in strollers or car seats now. As I think about car seats and how they have improved over the time from the first ones that came out. We bought the first ones of those in California when we were visiting my sister Ethel and her family and it would have not held the child in if there was a bad wreck.