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1. From The Seat Of A Stroller
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2. Times change continually. But at every
period of history, mothers and fathers
have had to transport their small children
around the place when those children
haven’t been able to spend the whole day
walking. Let’s take a look at the history of
Orlando, Florida, home to the Walt Disney
World Resort, from the perspective of the
seat of a baby stroller.

3. At first, when this part of Florida was
occasionally visited by the
Seminoles, there was no stroller
rentals in Orlando available: there
was no Orlando and no strollers!

4. However, the Seminoles passed through
the area, visiting the lakes for the good
fishing but not actually establishing a
significant settlement in the area. And
small people who nowadays would be
riding in strollers probably looked out at
the reflection of the sunlight from the
surface of the lakes from slings and
backpacks.

6. However, the Seminoles passed through
the area, visiting the lakes for the good
fishing but not actually establishing a
significant settlement in the area. And
small people who nowadays would be
riding in strollers probably looked out at
the reflection of the sunlight from the
surface of the lakes from slings and
backpacks.

7. The first European settlers who
explored the area wouldn’t have
bothered with stroller rentals in
Orlando or the equivalent of their
day: they were mostly those of the
Ponce de Leon type: military Spanish
conquistador types.

8. Later on, civilian settlers, men and
women, came with their families.
These children wouldn’t have ridden
in strollers, either. Instead, they
tended to be carried, just like the
Seminole babies and toddlers.

10. Given the methods of childcare of
those early days, they were probably
well wrapped up, which would have
kept away the mosquitoes, but would
probably have made the young
children fretful in the heat.

11. These children would have watched their
parents building homes and establishing
ranches and orange groves, either from
the arms of a parent or an older sister (or
even an aunt or grandmother), or from a
cradle – which would have been a home-
made job rather than the pioneer day of a
rental crib.

12. The ranches went up and the news
got around the United States that
this part of Florida had a balmy
climate that provided a winter
refuge.

13. The dawn of the Industrial Age
brought the trains and better roads,
and it also brought the tourists to
Orlando. It was during this period
that the way we transport our
children changed forever.

15. It was like inventing the wheel all
over again: we started putting our
small children into wheeled carriages
designed to be pushed about. This
wasn’t the actual start of stroller
rentals in Orlando..

16. The tourists who came with small
children came with their own
paraphernalia for caring for children
with them, which would have
included a professional nanny and
would probably have also included
the newfangled perambulator or
pram.

18. The first form of wheeled baby transport
was invented by an English garden
designer in the 1700s. These original
designs were designed to be trundled
around parks and gardens, and the
inventor had the idea that they could be
pulled by a goat or pony – if this idea had
lasted, it would have made stroller rentals
in Orlando very different indeed! It wasn’t
until the 1800s that perambulators were
made in the USA.

19. It would be no good looking for one of
these prams if you were looking for
stroller rentals in Orlando today. These
original prams are now antiques, if they
survived the rigors of transporting several
generations of small children, and many
belong in museums and fetch high prices
from collectors.

20. And most modern parents wouldn’t
want an old-style pram anyway.
These very first “strollers” were large
and, by today’s standards, rather
cumbersome. They tended to have a
large hood, like the best of today’s
strollers, but that was all they had in
common with modern strollers.

21. The old prams were designed so that
the view that the child riding in the
pram had as their parents (and
nanny) took refuge from the winter
in this part of Florida was the
bonneted face of the nanny or their
mother – and, now and again, their
father.

23. The view of the parent or nanny
pushing the pram or stroller would
have been the typical view for many
more years to come. During this
time, the town of Orlando grew up
and a certain cartoonist made huge
strides in animation.

24. Characters such as Mickey Mouse and
Donald Duck – and later Snow White –
began to delight audiences old and young
as they cavorted and sang their way
across the silver screen. And the idea that
would change the face of tourism in
Florida was dreamed of: the building of
the theme parks, one of which was the
Walt Disney World Resort.

26. In the 1960s, by the time air travel was
becoming more popular and bringing
many more tourists into this part of the
world, the view for those riding in strollers
changed. It was the hassle of taking a big
heavy pram in an aeroplane that triggered
the change, although it would be a while
until someone would have the bright idea
of making things easier for visitors by
providing stroller rentals in Orlando..

27. After hearing his daughter complain
about these hassles, the aeronautical
engineer Owen Mclaren designed
something more lightweight and
foldable that was more convenient
for travellers.

28. And it was Mclaren who came up
with the stroller proper. Now the
view from the seat of a stroller
changed so the small passenger
could see the road ahead of him or
her, and sit upright while doing so.

30. After the development of the stroller
as we know it, the Walt Disney World
Resort sprang up, really putting
Orlando on the map. Now small
passengers riding in strollers could
see their favourite characters smiling
and waving at them as they walked
down Main Street USA in the first
park to be built in the resort.

31. But, as any parent looking at the
range of what’s available for stroller
rentals in Orlando these days can
see, stroller design didn’t stop there.
More accessories and safety features
have been added to baby strollers.

32. Brakes and restraint systems came along
fairly smartly, as the benefits of these
were obvious. The big hoods came back,
but more and more changes were made to
make the strollers tougher, easier to
handle and easy to jog with. And – a must
for parents with more than one child
needing the stroller – double strollers
were invented.

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