From the "how times have changed" department

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Sat Jan 26, 2019 5:46 pm

‘Prevents spills from sudden stops.’

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Sat Jan 26, 2019 6:11 pm

BoSoxGal wrote:‘Prevents spills from sudden stops.’

"Walking harness"... please curb your child.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:15 am

Marketing something like this? The horrors!!
Now we know why Sears went belly-up.
(seriously, though, I'm kinda curious as to what year(s) this product was offered in the 'wish book'. I'm guessing the late '50s.)

-"BB"-

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:20 am

I think it said 1961.

Long Run · Post by **Long Run** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 3:27 am

"Hey, we didn't have seat belts when I was a kid and we did just fine!"

(Where does that rank on the list of stupid rejoinders regularly made?"

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 3:39 am

I remember being strapped into something like this at about three years old and going shopping with my mother. At that time when ever my mother left the house, I went with her. It was not used in a car--I was just left to bounce around in the back seat when my father drove. My mother always used public transportation. I know I hated the thing.

snailgate

dales · Post by **dales** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:04 am

No seat belts, hard metal dash and I survived.

Kids in the 1950's were tough!

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:54 pm

No seat belt = Darwin Award recipient (posthumous)

dales · Post by **dales** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:11 am

I always wear a seat belt now that the 1950's are long past.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 4:47 am

As a county attorney I saw so many accidents resulting in death and permanent disability that seatbelts would have prevented - it broke my heart. And then it was a dear friend who was killed in a totally survivable rollover because she didn’t click it - if she had, she would have walked away with scratches at most.

Seatbelts save lives.

MGMcAnick · Post by **MGMcAnick** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:06 pm

dales wrote:Kids in the 1950's were tough!

Or dead, or maimed, or crippled for life.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:33 pm

MGMcAnick wrote:
dales wrote:Kids in the 1950's were tough!
Or dead, or maimed, or crippled for life.

Yeah, right. All these dead, maimed, or crippled people posting on this board, for example.

Hey ... people are gonna die. As soon as someone is born they're on a one-way trip to the cemetery. There's no escaping it. All seat belts, air bags, and other automobile safety equipment has done is made it so people can die of other causes — like lung cancer from smoking, or drug overdoses from looking for that elusive 'high', or 'superbugs' like MRSA and others that we have created by the willy-nilly overuse of antibiotics and other germicides — later in life.

-"BB"-

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:07 pm

I’m thinking most of the 50s folks who lived to have the opportunity to die now of cancer or what have you are probably grateful they had that opportunity.

Although to be honest, the longer I live the more I think it’s not such a tragedy to die in childhood, before you realize how totally screwed up life is.

MGMcAnick · Post by **MGMcAnick** » Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:23 am

Bicycle Bill wrote: Yeah, right. All these dead, maimed, or crippled people posting on this board, for example.

Huh? What are you saying? Seat belts don't save lives?

Many '50s kids grew up just because we were lucky. Some grew up without a parent or two.

There were two girl's in school with me who each lost an arm in car wrecks. One of them lost her father in her wreck. Seat belts would have prevented all of their life altering problems. A couple of kids I knew died in other wrecks, also preventable. Three HS boys were killed in another wreck.

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