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[Industrial Toys]

Back to the chain. I would STILL have to see it to believe it.

LOOK, sparks are harmless

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[KubotainNH]

Back to the chain. I would STILL have to see it to believe it.

LOOK, sparks are harmless

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That's funny. The kid with the handsaw is looking at her like wth.... Ha.

 

[dragoneggs]

All the farmer kids used to ride in the back of the pickup everywhere. It was often their only car.

Bruce

What used to be called fun. My dad had a 1970 Ford Country Sedan Station Wagon. He could put 4ftx8ft sheets of plywood in the back and close the tailgate! It had side facing seats in the rear that folded down flat for cargo. We as kids would sit in the far back seats but we always begged him to flip the rear bench seat down and stow the side rear seats so we could slide around in the back going around curves. No carpeting, just a slick painted rear! Great memories!!! Go faster dad!

 

[Doofy]

It is truly amazing and by the grace of God that any of us lived long enough to grow up. The things we did (however stupid) were fun!

 

[dragoneggs]

It is truly amazing and by the grace of God that any of us lived long enough to grow up. The things we did (however stupid) were fun!

:drink:

 

[ultrarunner]

Some of the best childhood memories were all the kids piling into the back of the truck or wagon... it was required to have a pickup to be a coach...

One of the Mom's in grade school had a 67 Fleetwood... this huge car had 4 seatbelts... 1967 model.

Routinely had 9 kids in the car without issue... and the kids all wanted to ride together.

In Scouts for paper drives... the scout master drove an old pickup up and down the block and the scouts would fan out collecting paper... then pile in and ride to the next neighborhood.

Loved those old wagons where 4x8 sheet goods would fit with ease... a lot of wagons around here had commercial plates because they were used by salesmen... for their samples.

Favorite wagon was the Olds Vista Cruiser... with visors for the rear seat!

Good times... and Good memories.

Working at a car dealer... sometimes I would be allowed to take a 9 passenger wagon for school events... we only had one very old bus... so kids made up the rest of the transportation to events/games.

Now not even legal for a 16 year old to drive other kids around in my State... at 16 a buddy and me drove from San Francisco to Purdy WA over the Christmas Break and then to Vancouver Canada to his Uncle... it was an awesome trip... and before cell phones, gps, etc... stayed overnight in motels... and drove into Canada... again, all at 16.

I will have to look for pictures... I know there are some with the whole team in the back of the coaches pickup heading home from the ballgame...

Back in the day... you were just as likely to see a station wagon or big sedan towing horse trailers to the dressage events... plenty of Cadillac Eldorados with 500 ci towing horse trailers... can't remember when I have seen a car towing a horse trailer...

 

[BigBlue1]

It is truly amazing and by the grace of God that any of us lived long enough to grow up. The things we did (however stupid) were fun!

Sort of amazing... Things were certainly done in a more risky manner. Yet people survived. But what is really amazing is how as a society today we are so risk-averse and how we have grown to belittle and harass anyone who does choose to take some risk these days. Don't buckle a kid up?? People are going to rail on you. Buckle them but not in the perfect government-mandated sized car booster seat?? People are going to rail on you. Back in those days people just took care of themselves and if something bad happened everybody else realized it was sad, possibly learned from it, but did not spend nearly as much time blaming or abusing the risk taker. I'd prefer the risks and independence of the past to the public shaming/abuse of the present. I think it made people better (more capable) and it certainly led to a less confrontational society. Ironically the collective want to protect everyone else is making society less friendly.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sort of amazing... Things were certainly done in a more risky manner. Yet people survived. But what is really amazing is how as a society today we are so risk-averse and how we have grown to belittle and harass anyone who does choose to take some risk these days. Don't buckle a kid up?? People are going to rail on you. Buckle them but not in the perfect government-mandated sized car booster seat?? People are going to rail on you. Back in those days people just took care of themselves and if something bad happened everybody else realized it was sad, possibly learned from it, but did not spend nearly as much time blaming or abusing the risk taker. I'd prefer the risks and independence of the past to the public shaming/abuse of the present. I think it made people better (more capable) and it certainly led to a less confrontational society. Ironically the collective want to protect everyone else is making society less friendly.

Agree

 

[cqaigy2]

Back in the day... you were just as likely to see a station wagon or big sedan towing horse trailers to the dressage events... plenty of Cadillac Eldorados with 500 ci towing horse trailers... can't remember when I have seen a car towing a horse trailer...

I'd kinda forgotten about that. I remember as a kid, the S.E Washington Fair in Walla Walla my Dad doing veterinary work checking papers and such seeing just as you say, all kinds of rigs driving in with horse and stock trailers.

 

[cqaigy2]

Sort of amazing... Things were certainly done in a more risky manner. Yet people survived. But what is really amazing is how as a society today we are so risk-averse and how we have grown to belittle and harass anyone who does choose to take some risk these days. Don't buckle a kid up?? People are going to rail on you. Buckle them but not in the perfect government-mandated sized car booster seat?? People are going to rail on you. Back in those days people just took care of themselves and if something bad happened everybody else realized it was sad, possibly learned from it, but did not spend nearly as much time blaming or abusing the risk taker. I'd prefer the risks and independence of the past to the public shaming/abuse of the present. I think it made people better (more capable) and it certainly led to a less confrontational society. Ironically the collective want to protect everyone else is making society less friendly.

That's certainly one way to look at it. Or people feel more empowered to speak up instead of slinking away hoping that child survives, using the excuse, it's none of my business. I did conscientiously coach the previous sentence in a inflammatory way to kind of make a point.

I do agree, it seems to me, that we had access to more real world experiences that gave us confidence and experience to take care of things as we came to them. I remember using power equipment, at an age that would now be illegal, tractors, wheat trucks, combines to name a few.