From your inventory of sitting places it looks as if Ajo doesn’t go in for rockers. The one on your porch looks to be a kind that you can “rock” without runners and there is a glider represented but no traditional type rockers. Are rockers not represented in the SW culture?
I don’t remember seeing any rockers but I wasn’t looking for them specifically. Since I wasn’t specifically looking for them, it’s possible I even photographed some and just don’t recall. If so, they’re likely to appear in this series at some point. Perhaps though, rockers aren’t a thing in the SW as you suggested. As far as my experience in Montana, they’re not really a thing here either. Maybe it is in Colorado though, hence your question.
I have a antique rocker on my “4 season” porch which came out of Kansas. Just a guess here but I think they are a midwestern and eastern thing. I think a traditional wooden one has too many joints that dry out and loosen in our dry climate and so are too much trouble to maintain.
Now that you mention it, we actually had 2 wooden rockers on our west porch at our cabin some years ago. I never really like them, perhaps wrong ergonomics for me or something, so never used them. They eventually suffered from the loose joints syndrome you mentioned, and the paint started peeling as well. I think they’re stashed in a shed or somewhere now although they should be just thrown away, or burned.
From your inventory of sitting places it looks as if Ajo doesn’t go in for rockers. The one on your porch looks to be a kind that you can “rock” without runners and there is a glider represented but no traditional type rockers. Are rockers not represented in the SW culture?
I don’t remember seeing any rockers but I wasn’t looking for them specifically. Since I wasn’t specifically looking for them, it’s possible I even photographed some and just don’t recall. If so, they’re likely to appear in this series at some point. Perhaps though, rockers aren’t a thing in the SW as you suggested. As far as my experience in Montana, they’re not really a thing here either. Maybe it is in Colorado though, hence your question.
I have a antique rocker on my “4 season” porch which came out of Kansas. Just a guess here but I think they are a midwestern and eastern thing. I think a traditional wooden one has too many joints that dry out and loosen in our dry climate and so are too much trouble to maintain.
Now that you mention it, we actually had 2 wooden rockers on our west porch at our cabin some years ago. I never really like them, perhaps wrong ergonomics for me or something, so never used them. They eventually suffered from the loose joints syndrome you mentioned, and the paint started peeling as well. I think they’re stashed in a shed or somewhere now although they should be just thrown away, or burned.