Safety standards in 1965

[Pluvious]

( I can still remember my mom bracing me in the car’s front seat when she hit the breaks )

It’s a miracle so many of us survived our childhoods lol

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[EYESORE 9001]

1. That picture...

makes wee willie winkie wince with pain and dread.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. My aunt did that. Whenever she hit the brakes, her arm would automatically come out

To keep us kids in the front from hitting the dashboard...

[drmeow]

8. I still put my arm out

even when there are adults in the passenger seat!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. I also do that with my dog - even though he has a doggy seatbelt!

[Pobeka]

3. The little numeric reader sign says 936. Is that deaths to date on the chairlift?

[Baggies]

4. On long trips, I used to sleep in the back window.

Also it was fun to lay down in the back seat and watch the electrical/telephone wires as they went up and down. Then when they suddenly crossed over the road, it’d about rip your eyeballs out of their sockets. Good times!

[sdfernando]

5. As kid I remember us traveling across the U.S. many times in a 1957 Plymouth station wagon

No padded dash, no seatbelts, at least one of us babies/kids in the front seat sitting on Mom's lap. Who needs all that safety gear...we all survived.

[Fla Dem]

6. I'm freaking out just looking at that 57 year old picture!

[area51]

10. +1 n/t

[electric_blue68]

11. Lol I can't quite remember whether the ski lifts we used on a summer

vacation had a front bar at least! 😄
And the early mid '60s is when we were on them. 😄😛


Scary but oh the scenery! 🧡

[Earth-shine]

12. I remember my parents smoking in the front seats while my brother and I were choking in the back

seats of the family car.