my grandma returning home from the hospital with my mother in her arms during the car ride. – no car seat (May 1973)
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my grandma returning home from the hospital with my mother in her arms during the car ride. – no car seat (May 1973)
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Well, I feel old. I was born in ‘73 too.
The good news is there was no air bag /s
Car seats were virtually non-existent in 1973.
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I remember being in one of these.
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This Is an old italian ad for an hammock
Seat Belts weren’t in cars in the 1950s. They started coming in the 1960s.
My mom had something like a Pack-N-Play that she set up in the back seat of the car for us in the early ’70s. They were more worried about us wandering into the front seats and disturbing the driver than dying in a crash.
If you have never know the thrill of standing up in the front seat while your drunk mother drives home, or flying through the wind shield of a car after she runs a red light and smashes into somebody else.
Well you just haven’t lived.
/And people wonder why Xer’s just don’t give a shit about their own lives.
I had this one in blue
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Yeah I remember pretty clearly standing in the seat well at age 3 going to pick up my brother at the hospital. We didn’t even use seatbelts until the 80s. Basic dad driving duty as I remember was putting your arm out to hold the kids from flying forward if he had to brake hard. Rode thousands of miles sitting on a wooden box between the front bucket seats of my parent’s Dodge van
I am the same age as your mom and have memories of sitting in the front seat without a seatbelt when I was three.
I remember laying across the back dash on family trips.
Grandma bringing mom home in 73, I feel old.
Yes but the dashboard was padded. Safety first
Common sense wasn’t invented until the late 70’s and wasn’t widely embraced until the 80’s. Seatbelts, infant car seats, no smoking on airplanes, bicycle helmets for children, unleaded gas, CFC ban, ban on kids riding in pickup truck beds, etc.