My mother never mowed a lawn in her life. But she did pose here, for my father to take her picture, in the back yard of our first Levittown Pennsylvania home. This is my mother pretending to mow the lawn. What’s interesting about this picture is the actual mower. The year of this picture is 1954. Notice the cord trailing behind my mother, wrapped around the side of the handle, and plugged into the motor. This rotary mower was electric. And it was quiet. No two stroke motor buzz or starter cord to pull. Though my father bought it used from an ad on a bulletin board at work in 1953, because he owned no mower before he owned that house, it only dates from around 1950 or 1951. I found the identical mower for sale in a Canadian Sears catalog of that era. Paint color was a dark rust shade of red.
My mother never mowed a lawn in her life. But she did pose here, for my father to take her picture, in the back yard of our first Levittown Pennsylvania home. This is my mother pretending to mow the lawn. What’s interesting about this picture is the actual mower. The year of this picture is 1954. Notice the cord trailing behind my mother, wrapped around the side of the handle, and plugged into the motor. This rotary mower was electric. And it was quiet. No two stroke motor buzz or starter cord to pull. Though my father bought it used from an ad on a bulletin board at work in 1953, because he owned no mower before he owned that house, it only dates from around 1950 or 1951. I found the identical mower for sale in a Canadian Sears catalog of that era. Paint color was a dark rust shade of red. | Click image for Comments. | Home | Browse All Photos