Rose with the red booboo car, and her mother, Berney in their garden in Limerick, 1961
Rose Doyle’s father made this wagon in the 1960s. It’s not a toddler walker, rather, he meant it as a robust alternative to the dolls’ pram, to be pushed or pulled by an older child in the garden containing whatever they happened to be playing with.
This often seemed to be teddy bears, because for some reason teddies were never put in the dolls’ pram. Boo-Boo Bear was Yogi Bear’s* sidekick and there was a big teddy bear in the household called Big Booby; the link with teddies might be why the wagon was called a booboo car.
The wheels fell off and were replaced in the 1990s so it squeaks a bit now!
The red booboo car
*Boo-Boo Bear is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character on The Yogi Bear Show. Boo-Boo is a shorter anthropomorphic bear who wears a blue bowtie. Boo-Boo is Yogi Bear‘s constant companion (not his son, as is sometimes believed), and often acts as his conscience.[16] He tries (usually unsuccessfully) to keep Yogi from doing things he should not do, and also to keep Yogi from getting into trouble with Ranger Smith[17] – often saying, “Mr. Ranger isn’t gonna like this, Yogi.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo-Boo_Bear
