It is Terrible Now but Fine Then

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coconut

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My how things have changed. Especially involving safety. What do you remember from your childhood? Examples please.

Here's a baby in an overhead cradle on an airplane in the early 1950s. I wonder if it was water tight?


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In my neighborhood we were big on mud ball fights and BB gun battles.
 
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Delivering papers at age 12 without parental supervision.

I tried to set my boys up with a route back in 2005 when they were around 14 and the city required an adult to go along. So there I was driving the boys around at 5:30am in my SUV. :rolleyes:

Kind of takes away from the experience.
 
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Raptorman said:
Seatbelts only in the front seats of our 63 Pontiac.
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They used to be an option that you had to pay for.

To this day school buses don't have seat belts and I just don't understand that.

Dodgersrf said:
Walking to school without adult supervision.....in the 1st grade.
It just wasnt a big deal back then
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My (almost entire) elementary school walked to school, then walked home for lunch, then back to school, then home. If someone had nobody at home to make lunch they went to a friends house. If someone had nowhere to go they could bring lunch and eat it in the gym at lunchtime. That's what the kids in kindergarten did, they didn't walk home. Although some did if they had an older sibling they could go with.

And we had recess in the afternoon. Everyone would go outside to play.

This was a tiny school that served the neighborhood. Each grade had one or two classrooms, there were 5 grades and kindergarten.

Things like this don't exist anymore I'm guessing.

dieterbrock said:
Meanwhile, about 4 rows ahead was likely the "smoking section"
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LOL yup.
 
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Dodgersrf said:
Our high school had a smoking section. Even though most people there weren't old enough to smoke.
Nobody cared.
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My HS also had a smoking area, called Hippie Hall. It was closed off by doors and had an outdoor area where kids smoked also. That's where most of the weed purchases were made haha. And where people would meet up to go out in someones car to drive around and get high.

It used to be one of the finest high schools in the nation but I don't know if that's still the case.

The smoking hall was turned into a daycare. I don't know if it still is, but at one time it was.

Oddly only one girl in Jr. High and High School gave birth in the six years I was there.
 
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Farr Be It said:
Delivering papers at age 12 without parental supervision.

I tried to set my boys up with a route back in 2005 when they were around 14 and the city required an adult to go along. So there I was driving the boys around at 5:30am in my SUV. :rolleyes:

Kind of takes away from the experience.
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It takes all the meaningful work ethic experience out of it. At least it was some time with dad.(y)
 
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