Saw this on line. Thinking "Oh, hell no!"

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“My Mother And Grandmother Demonstrating Safety Standards In The 1960s”



23 Vintage Photos Of Old-School Parenting That Would Never Fly Today

[Cartoonist]

1. Nice pic

They're probably only a few feet off the ground. Still, it'll hurt if they fall as there's no snow.

[brush]

2. Boy, we were clueless then, not even a lap belt in sight.

[rurallib]

3. Reminds me of 'mom's arm across the front seat of the car' safety system

Wonder how we ever survived.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

7. Who remembers "Necker's Knobs" on the steering wheel ?

[rurallib]

9. I never had one, but my brother who fancied himself quite the lover

sure did.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

13. They were supposed to free up the right arm,

so as to place it around the shoulders of your date. They were quite the rage at one time. Like the tops of gear shifts, they came in all sorts of decorations. Right up there with the fuzzy dice on the rear view.

I forget when they were outlawed.

[Wounded Bear]

18. IIRC, we called them Suicide Knobs...

Was a popular item to make in shop.

[irisblue]

17. My mom called that "Michigan Wheezer"

The adults right arm would snap out during a quick stop to hold us against the passenger seat.

[El Mimbreno]

19. My wife still does that, even though she started driving with seat belts.

Says it's an instinctive mom thing.

[Laffy Kat]

25. It is an instinct. I still do it to my adult sons if they are riding next to me.

And we all wear seat belts. They always say, "Mommmm".

[Blue_playwright]

27. So glad I'm not the only one!

Nt

[ProudLib72]

4. Pretty sure these baby cages that were meant to hang off a windowsill take first place

Baby needs fresh air!

[El Mimbreno]

22. I've seen these on RVs...

but for cats. This is definitely a different concept.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. That photo makes me think of my aunt

When we were little and riding with her in the car, when she came to a stop, she'd automatically reach her arm out to hold back the child sitting next to her. Of course, this was before seat belts...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. This made me remember something . . .

Before we knew the danger of toxic chemicals in household products, we had all kinds of poisons as cleansers, cleaning products and the like in our homes in the 50s.

I remember watching my Mum show me how to use the new liquid toilet bowl cleaner and swish the brush under the rim and all that. Some of the liquid splashed on her pantyhose and burned right through them to her skin. She whipped off her pantyhose, as they were still disintegrating and started to run water on her leg to get the cleaner off her skin. She ended up with an acid-like burn on her leg that required medical attention.

Yikes. Now we all know better, but back then . . . . (put skull and cross bones here).

[tblue37]

11. Remember, they used to X-ray kids' feet in shoe stores to fit their shoes! nt

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[Submariner]

30. I'm surprised my feet didn't glow and fall off from a radiation overdose

As a little kid, my Mother would drag me along everywhere shopping, and I could be found in the shoe department watching my piggies wiggle in the green glowing x-ray machine. I'd spend 10 to 15 minutes a week for a few years playing with those machines.

[Collimator]

16. Lysol was advertised

As a feminine hygiene product. Because a woman needed to keep herself "fresh" to ensure her husband's continued interest.

[Locrian]

23. get out the Mercurochrome - nothing like a bit of mercury in an open wound! -/nt

[yonder]

28. We were in the drugstore just this week for something else

and left with a small $5.00 bottle of Iodine. Just because. Old time's sake I guess. I looked for a bottle of Methiolate? too but didn't see one. I remember using Mercurochrome as well - was that the same as Methiolate?

It's funny how memories persist because walking out of the store with the Iodine, I kept thinking this is going to sting like hell even though I had no need to use it. Just holding the bottle made me anticipate the stinging.

[Locrian]

31. yep Methiolate has mercury too

I remember skinned knees and cuts - then suddenly it disappeared from the medicine cabinet to be replaced by iodine!

I think I remember my mom saying "the stinging means it's working"! LOL

[pansypoo53219]

8. i did not have to sneak a drink. i just had to ask. never liked beer.

vodka was ok, but whiskey was better. uncle thought i would choke on amaretto before i was legal. ha. can i have another? no, i am not a big drinker.

[rurallib]

10. When my parents went to the tavern (almost nightly) and brought their kids along

we would drink from their beers. So did the other kids that were there. I was probably @5.

For that matter mother would send down to that same tavern to get her cigarettes and beer with a note and some money. We would pull the wagon down and pick up a case of Falstaff and 2 packs of Pall Mall.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

14. Oh yes. My folks did that all the time.

They'd rubber band the dollar bills and the clerk would put the change in the bag ! I was - maybe - seven !

[rurallib]

15. 7 years old and buying beer and smokes - those were the days

[El Mimbreno]

20. My dad's story & a poem

My dad told me of going to the tavern with a pail to get beer for his dad, a foundry worker in Chicago. This would have been around 1915-1920.

Listen my children and you shall hear,
Of the midnight run of a pail of beer.
Over the wall,
Over the fence,
I've got the pail,
Where's the 15 cents?

[Laffy Kat]

26. We did, too!

My parents would have neighbors over for cocktails on Friday nights and my parents always let me sip their drinks. By the time I was six, I could identify gin, vodka, rum, vermouth and all the whiskies. I could take a beer out of the fridge and drink it at home any time as a teenager, although I didn't really want to very often. I never went out with friends just to "get drunk" I didn't see the point, and by the time I was out of the house, I couldn't stand any of the hard liquor and still don't like it. Today it's just an occasional beer, glass of wine, or Margarita.

[yonder]

29. Like most other things I guess, if it is secret, taboo or hidden you want to see what

all the fuss is about and experiment as you can, sometimes with poor results. But with a healthy, out in the open approach you take it for what it is - or not.

I admire that upbringing, LK. That wasn't the case for us.

[Cold War Spook]

34. My father only drank scotch and my mother didn't drink.

I hated Scotch so I didn't drink, but my collie like a little scotch, just enough that his front legs crossed when he walked. My black lab in San Jose CA only drank wine. He would sneak out and drink with the men on the corner. Then I learned about Jim Beam, beer and hashish all at the same time while stationed in Turkey. I found the army a very pleasant experience.

[Rebl2]

12. Awe the

good old days-not.

[El Mimbreno]

21. I remember the car seat!

And non-locking seat backs. I also remember my tooth mark on the dash of dad's 52 Plymouth from when he had to make a sudden stop and my mom, with me on her lap, pitched forward.

And how about teen employment? Much of the stuff I did is now illegal for teens.
Worked at a bank (mail clerk, etc) afternoons and summers during high school. When statements were to be mailed, I'd sometimes work until 8 or 9 pm, pull my car around to the side door, load up the mail bags and take them to the post office. School night? so what? Picked up registered mail, with a police escort. Hauled bags of rolled coin from the vault to the tellers (4 bags at a time; probably weighed more than I did!)

But I survived, and I'm perfectly normal. I think.

[Initech]

24. Don't look down, don't look down, don't look down, don't look down...

[mgardener]

32. My sister and I went all the way to Florida

From NY in the way back of a station wagon. We had comforters and pillows. The luggage was in between the front seats and back.
I remember our first car with seat belts.

[caraher]

33. Different view of the current version

It's not quite as far to the ground as you might think



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