Here are two pictures of the duhstrap chair...after the reupholstering and before. The chair has a history: Back in 1939 my father was riding in the truck with his Grandma and Grandaddy Binns going to Salt Lake. They had a farm between Pleasant Grove and American fork. Just as they were driving out to Alpine Road ( it was a dirt road then, ) Grandma Binns suddenly yelled,:"Tom, stop!" (Grandaddy Binns)- She had seen a chair in the ditch on the side of the road. She had my father and Grandaddy get it into the truck, and it has been in the family ever since.
The man who reupholstered it,said it was worth recovering, as it has a really good and strong frame.
Kind of like our family!
We have had it since we have moved to Port Angeles, and it has been recovered twice. I love this chair, not only because it brings back great memories of phone conversations with friends after school, but it is comfortable and makes me feel a closeness to relatives who have passed on.
Yay, for family stories!
4 comments:
oops...it was 1936!
Seriously? They found that beautiful chair in a DITCH?! That is crazy. It's beautiful!
What a fun story...kind of reminds me of my dad finding "treasures" on the side of the road. One I remember was a blanket. I remember thinking, "Seriously, Dad, you're going to pick up that dirty old blanket?" Then my mom washed it and put it in the RV...I think I actually used it once, haha. The chair looks great!
Ah, the du-strap chair. Funny that it got its name because someone wrote that on the arm of the chair as I remember. But, I honestly don't remember who wrote it there. I suspect I'm the chief suspect, but I honestly don't remember doing that. Certainly some history there though. Makes you wonder why that person originally chucked the chair into the ditch in the first place. Lots of life left. Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'!
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