I'm so old I Remember when:

[NanaK]

I remember when I was a child there were no car seats for kids.

I used to ride standing up in the front seat. There were no worries about being thrown in a collision. Parents and grandparents had an auto brake that swung out as they touched the brake pedal. Their arm would fly out and pin you so tightly to the back of the seat your could hardly take a breath.

We also rode many times to the store in the bed of a truck. No one even thought twice about it!

Then when my newborn grandson came home from the hospital I was told to let him sleep on his back. We never did that! You put them on their tummy in my day!

I suppose we are just lucky to have survived childhood!

 

[Brooks_]

Parents and grandparents had an auto brake that swung out as they touched the brake pedal

It may not have broken my ribs, but at least cracked them.

 

[NanaK]

View attachment 3670012

This has The Old Rugged Cross. That was my Grandmother's favorite hymn. She used to sing it often. I wish I could hear her again. What a great memory.

 

[Ponypoor]

You mean you actually had air conditioning at school? I never had AC in school. We opened the windows and had some big shop fans.

More in High School, than grade school

 

[Ponypoor]

This has The Old Rugged Cross. That was my Grandmother's favorite hymn. She used to sing it often. I wish I could hear her again. What a great memory.

My mums too

 

[Brooks_]

More in High School, than grade school

I didn't have AC in K-5, did in 6+. But those were the newer schools.

 

[Brooks_]

That smell.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I remember when I was a child there were no car seats for kids.

I used to ride standing up in the front seat. There were no worries about being thrown in a collision. Parents and grandparents had an auto brake that swung out as they touched the brake pedal. Their arm would fly out and pin you so tightly to the back of the seat your could hardly take a breath.

We also rode many times to the store in the bed of a truck. No one even thought twice about it!

Then when my newborn grandson came home from the hospital I was told to let him sleep on his back. We never did that! You put them on their tummy in my day!

I suppose we are just lucky to have survived childhood!

Once my mom was driving with me in the middle and my brother was sitting on the arm rest on the door panel so he was high enough to see out the windshield.
We went around a corner and the door popped open and out he went. I watched him cartwheel into the ditch. Mom stopped retrieved him. Gave him the once over while dusting him off. Back in the car he went and off we went.
I don't remember him sitting on or against the door ever again.

 

[Nomadicus]

7-12 my school had asbestos ceilings that were falling down.... 4 years after I finished they tore it down before all the hupla over asbestos....

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Them was very uncomfortable pants!

Not if they fit good!

I got brave and wore my white ones the last day of school. Knew I wouldn't get kicked out. Who wore short shorts?

I had a pair of white ones too. Didn't wear them to school though, it was a Catholic school. Uniforms! I weighed 93 lbs when I graduated, had just turned 17. Sigh.