I bought one almost identical to that at Goodwill for $5.00. Frame is in excellent shape, but it appears to have the original upholstery which is in bad shape. My goal has been to try my hand at putting new upholstery on it. Well, it's been sitting in my sewing room for at least 3 yrs now. I'll get to it...one of these days!

I bought all my outdoor teak furniture from this site, Deck Patio Furniture - www.emassive.com I remember seeing that they had rocking chairs & I think you get to pick what color you would like it. Hope this helps! Leslie L. Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.emassive.com/Outdoor_Living

The first food I remember making was Roly-Polies when I was about four. It wasn't until about a year or two ago that my cousin discovered this snapshot of me making them. I'd roll out the scraps from my mother's pie crust between two sheets of waxed paper. Then I'd spread it with peanut butter and cinnamon/sugar, roll it up, slice, and put on a cookie sheet for my mom to bake. As an only child, I was my mom's sous chef (tipping beans, whipping cream, decorating cookies, etc.) and I learned a step at a time, always thinking it was fun. All the women in our family used to congregate at my aunt's house in the summer for a week or two of canning and freezing vast amounts of food for the year. I started as a tomato and peach skin peeler. My dad and two uncles had boats so cleaning fish and picking crabs was the beginning of my seafood cooking education. My friends and I used to make little stoves out of potato chip cans and coat hangers and have simple cookouts on them. We'd also wrap potatoes in clay and roast them in a bonfire while we were ice skating and things like that. My cooking skills progressed so that when my father was killed when I was 12 and my mother went to work full-time, I made most of the dinners for us. That's when I started experimenting with different kinds of soups and stews that could be heated up and eaten at any time. When I was 16, I acquired a stepfather who was a wonderful cook (although a little heavy on weird stuff like souse and blood pudding that I'd never seen made before). Around then, one of the grocery stores offered a 12-volume set of the Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery and WOW, did my culinary adventures shift into high gear! We'd have a dinner of dishes from Denmark, followed by English jam tarts the next week. I was fortunate to have a roommate for my first college apartment who knew how to cook just about anything. While our classmates were eating ramen noodles and hot dogs, we were having tasty meals on the same budget. We also used to prepare venison and other game dinners for hunters at a set price per head, which was our first commercial cooking venture. So that's my youthful culinary history. Cooking has always seemed to be interwoven with other activities in my life but rarely played a major role in it.

That second chair with bent-wood arms and decorated back is a beauty. The finish appears original with expected wear on the arms. Likely, a seat pad was used, one with strings to tie around the back spindles to keep it in place. These seat pads were not part of the chair when new. It was a common addition by housewives to preserve the seat and to add a bit of padded comfort. Its a very nice chair.