I am dating myself, but I remember the car seats which hooked over the back of the front seat (flimsy metal frame) and accessorized with steering wheel with a little red horn.
Amazing isn’t it - both of my children survived that era with no problems. In addition to children also raised two grandchildren and never put anything up, including my grandmother’s crystal. Nothing ever was broken or pulled over and all of them were climbers. There were some things they knew were off limits to touch.
Yep, in the days of big cars with bench seats in the front so that the car seat could be right next to mom driving.
I am dating myself, ..etc...
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Batting helmet 1950 or so 2 pieces of plastic fit over ears with elastic type straps on top connecting them.
Think Little League made you wear it, optional in HS.
Football helmet 1953 was hard plastic but had single (optional) face bar.
Basketball gym with brick (cinder block) wall about 3’ from basket, with matts attached, bleachers that left just enough room to put players bench in front of.
Floor burn or draw blood, coach would get the 1st aid kit, clean with iodine slap a bandage on it and VOLLA - play ball. In basketball, take a knee and the teams would surround you while you were being ‘treated’ and more often then not, the ‘victim’ would shake with the doer - just get up and keep on playing - All these treatments without MRI, AIDs testing, certified EMT’s on site etc etc
Kids riding in back of pickups,
With both mother and father RN’s, we didn’t get to see a whole lot of Dr’s unless it was school related...
Think the old ‘cough and turn your head’ type treatment.
Naturally, you would cough in his face and turn your head.
Our ‘drug of choice’ was Lucky Strike (they were ‘cool’ with bullseye rolled up in TShirt sleeve - though I was a Camel smoker as 9 of 10 Drs can’t be wrong) and an occasional beer (legal age 18 in NYS)
Remember what LSMFT meant and where the camel rider was.
Course with 1 coach doing all 3 sports and summer ball, with the whole town ‘babysitting’, you didn’t get away with a whole lot of shenanigans.
Oh yes, the coaches ‘assistant’ was usually the shop teacher who would do the Basketball JV (only Varsity Football and Baseball) and a couple of student ‘managers’.
Coach usually had the required “gym” class that all kids went to on a daily basis.
Oh yes the 2 or 3 State Troopers that patrolled our part of the county knew most everyone by name, knew what you drove and who should be driving it and more than likely would just deliver you to your parent(s) on the rare occasion one might ‘step across the line’.