We were a family of four children and two adults. Our only vehicle was a 1960s pick up truck. When we went places as a family, the kids rode in the back. (Family outings only took place in warm weather)
And in the driver’s seat. So you had to drive yourself home from the hospital? Maybe prior generations really DID have to walk both ways uphill barefoot in the snow.
My mother has photos of when they bought me home from hospital.
I’m in one of those old wicker bassinettes, on the back bench seat of my dad’s Ford and her sitting in the back hanging on to it.
This was in 1973. We are a different breed lol.
I feel bad for fire and paramedic crews back then. They had to peel thousands of infants off the windshield/dashboard of vehicles involved in accidents every year. I think sometimes we forget why so many changes were made from how things were done back then.
Xennial here. My mom and her station wagon drove the nursery school carpool.
Rear seats flattened to make a little playroom.
Some 3’long by 1’ tall trapezoid cushions along each wall.
Bunch’a blankets ant soft toys, and 6-8 kids aged 3-6.
Fun times!
Also, if you got bored grocery shopping you were welcome to wait in the car with the windows down instead; you could sleep or play. Lock the car if you come in to find Mummy!
When I was little my dad would sometimes tell my sister and me that he needed us to help the car go up hills by pushing on the back of his seat with our feet. He would speed up and slow down depending on how hard we pushed.
Are these the “good old days” the old folks keep talking about? Cause that looks scary af!
That car seat looks exactly like the swing carnival ride seat that spins you around and goes up lol.
My car seat was my mom extending her arm
I was born in December of 1973.
My dad drove me home from the hospital in a massive rear wheel drive Pontiac luxury lemans, in the front seat, in my mother’s arms, in a snow storm…
That baby looks hammered they shouldn’t be driving.
We were a family of four children and two adults. Our only vehicle was a 1960s pick up truck. When we went places as a family, the kids rode in the back. (Family outings only took place in warm weather)
And in the driver’s seat. So you had to drive yourself home from the hospital? Maybe prior generations really DID have to walk both ways uphill barefoot in the snow.
That was not for safety in mind back then. It was purely to contain you.
Stunningly we survived cuz Dad was scared to death he would spill his bourbon and soda. THOSE were the days.
You were drunk weren’t you?
I actually remember pushing the little plastic horn
How did we survive. Honestly.
Eeeek! In an actual wreck that thing would have sliced you up like cheese.
Those old vinyl seats would get searing hot in the summer.
To be fair, back then if you got into an accident that baby ain’t surviving anyway.
More like a death basket.
Baby seats back then was really just to keep the baby from crawling around the car.
This car seat looks like it might be more dangerous than no car seat at all in an accident. It probably is just to keep the kid from crawling around.
Where is your toy plastic bag?
All the times I fell asleep in the car as a kid, and woke up in my bed.
My dad had one of these he put on the BACK OF HIS MOTORCYCLE so he could ride us around. (We were Aged 5 or 6 at the time).
1964 Ford Fairlane, nice.
Fancy parents, I was born in 67 and never used a car seat. I laid across the back dash
My mother has photos of when they bought me home from hospital.
I’m in one of those old wicker bassinettes, on the back bench seat of my dad’s Ford and her sitting in the back hanging on to it.
This was in 1973. We are a different breed lol.
I feel bad for fire and paramedic crews back then. They had to peel thousands of infants off the windshield/dashboard of vehicles involved in accidents every year. I think sometimes we forget why so many changes were made from how things were done back then.
> “car seat”
It’s a seat And it’s in a car. Checks out.
Xennial here. My mom and her station wagon drove the nursery school carpool.
Rear seats flattened to make a little playroom.
Some 3’long by 1’ tall trapezoid cushions along each wall.
Bunch’a blankets ant soft toys, and 6-8 kids aged 3-6.
Fun times!
Also, if you got bored grocery shopping you were welcome to wait in the car with the windows down instead; you could sleep or play. Lock the car if you come in to find Mummy!
Mr parents: you’re alive aren’t you??!
My grandma likes to tell me how she just put my mom in a laundry basket in the back on the way home from the hospital.
When I was little my dad would sometimes tell my sister and me that he needed us to help the car go up hills by pushing on the back of his seat with our feet. He would speed up and slow down depending on how hard we pushed.