I think I read about this in Popular Mechanics in 1959. It also doubled as a Baby Sling Shot while picnicking.
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I love how it’s from California, the state that, today, deems everything manufactured unsafe.
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Hey Fur, Psst, Gavin’s running for Pres. Along with everyone else.
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It’s prolly safer as a restraint than my Mom’s outstretched arm.
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Brazil 30 Years after beaten-down office drones dealing with cumbersome technology somewhere between a tablet and a Commodore 64
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How did we survive.
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Things are fine until he gets big enough to somersault into the dashboard and cut his lip. ….Lady in Red
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Anybody else remember riding in Dad’s lap pretending to drive? In the early ’80’s I bought a 1971 AMC Ambassador Brougham and on the way back home I hit a small deer at about 60 MPH. Caught it with the driver front corner of the vehicle. The fender was SLIGHTLY bent and the headlight mount was broken but the headlight still worked! The point is that with earlier vehicles like the one in the ad, you could get away with a baby in a slingshot without too much worry. 10 miles per gallon but safe as hell!
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Sleeping in the back window.
Rolling down the hwy, feet dangling off the tailgate.
Sitting on the fender of the tractor.
Ride inside an inner tube or tire down a hill.
Downhill racer made out of a board and 4 old lawnmower wheels, steering with your feet.
Now slides, teeter totters, and merry-go-rounds, are just to dangerous.
Take your pick…………
We were way smarter or way fewer lawyers.
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*”Made in Vietnam with high tensile lead and asbestos.”
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“Baby constantly visible, rear view vision not impaired.”
Hmmmmm, that made me LOL!
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*If Teddy Kennedy had one, he would have been president…
My grandfather would take me with him during rice harvest time when I was a kid. He’d drive a combine and I’d ride standing on a step above one of the huge tires holding onto a metal bar. He told me to hold on tight or I’d fall and be crushed to death. I held on tight. It was fun.
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“Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood debuted later that year…”
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As a little kid I would stand on the floor behind the front seat (passenger side) in the big 56 Olds as Mom drove. No seat belts, no headrests, but hey it was the back seat… or at least the back. Then one day she hit the ultra-sensitive power brakes that Oldsmobile was famous for. The front end submarined and launched me over the seat and straight into the painted steel dashboard. Blood everywhere and a messed up mouth. That dashboard had the imprint of my teeth in it down to bare metal until we got rid of it in 64.
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REAL outlaw M-80’S in ’64 in South Carolina.
When I was 10. 1 gross was $7.50 at barefoot
Mac’s fruit,veggie & firecracker stand.A wonder
I got all 10 digits… Blow holes in the yard.
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That hammock is precious. It reminds me of directions for making a car seat out of rolled up corrugated cardboard, saw that in a Whole Earth Catalog eons ago.
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How did we survive back then? We did and it was a lot of fun before all the ninnies took away all our fun because of liability laws that regulated our every conduct. A friend and I once smacked into a large tree sledding at Manito Park on Spokane’s S. hill when we tried to avoid a kid who crossed right in front of us as we were sledding down the hill. After an ambulance ride to the hospital since my friend was knocked out when we hit the tree and a little patching up we were OK and neither one of our parents sued for any damages, it was all part of growing up back then and taking responsibility for our actions. The city took out all the good kid killers from the park about 20 years or so ago due to liability issues including the merry go round, swings that could launch you into space if you swung high enough and a really cool wooden pirate ship that my kids loved. It was a lot better time to be a kid back then, nowadays they practically wrap them in bubble wrap in order to protect them getting any booboo’s which is too bad. It’s no wonder that the millennials are such a bunch of pussies and snowflakes.
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Shrimpngrits, ah yes, the liberal last Whole Earth Catalog from back in the 70’s where you could buy all sorts of very interesting things and read the serialized version of Divine Right’s Trip. It was the hippie bible of all things related to being a hippie including selling the Anarchist’s Cook Book etc. I got rid of all my Whole Earth Catalogs and copies of the Coevolution Quarterly 40 years or so ago in the late 70’s after I grew up and I don’t miss them.
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That Lull a baby car hammock was made by the Acme Co. (or Ajax or The Little Giant Novelty Co. of Walla Walla, Wa.) and endorsed by Wile E Coyote.
I grew up in one in the back of my model T. No brain damage then….
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This device was perfectly acceptable in its day — not because it was “safe”, but because people were safe. Our modern concept of “safety” is not about teaching people how to behave responsibly, but more about trying to shield people from the consequences of their own recklessness.
I don’t recall there being a concussion epidemic in football back in the day when helmets were made of leather.
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Jethro, that hammock is far better than your car seat.
What could go wrong?
I think I read about this in Popular Mechanics in 1959. It also doubled as a Baby Sling Shot while picnicking.
I love how it’s from California, the state that, today, deems everything manufactured unsafe.
Hey Fur, Psst, Gavin’s running for Pres. Along with everyone else.
It’s prolly safer as a restraint than my Mom’s outstretched arm.
Brazil 30 Years after beaten-down office drones dealing with cumbersome technology somewhere between a tablet and a Commodore 64
How did we survive.
Things are fine until he gets big enough to somersault into the dashboard and cut his lip. ….Lady in Red
Anybody else remember riding in Dad’s lap pretending to drive? In the early ’80’s I bought a 1971 AMC Ambassador Brougham and on the way back home I hit a small deer at about 60 MPH. Caught it with the driver front corner of the vehicle. The fender was SLIGHTLY bent and the headlight mount was broken but the headlight still worked! The point is that with earlier vehicles like the one in the ad, you could get away with a baby in a slingshot without too much worry. 10 miles per gallon but safe as hell!
Sleeping in the back window.
Rolling down the hwy, feet dangling off the tailgate.
Sitting on the fender of the tractor.
Ride inside an inner tube or tire down a hill.
Downhill racer made out of a board and 4 old lawnmower wheels, steering with your feet.
Now slides, teeter totters, and merry-go-rounds, are just to dangerous.
Take your pick…………
We were way smarter or way fewer lawyers.
*”Made in Vietnam with high tensile lead and asbestos.”
“Baby constantly visible, rear view vision not impaired.”
Hmmmmm, that made me LOL!
*If Teddy Kennedy had one, he would have been president…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvvGgqV6SGo
My grandfather would take me with him during rice harvest time when I was a kid. He’d drive a combine and I’d ride standing on a step above one of the huge tires holding onto a metal bar. He told me to hold on tight or I’d fall and be crushed to death. I held on tight. It was fun.
“Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood debuted later that year…”
As a little kid I would stand on the floor behind the front seat (passenger side) in the big 56 Olds as Mom drove. No seat belts, no headrests, but hey it was the back seat… or at least the back. Then one day she hit the ultra-sensitive power brakes that Oldsmobile was famous for. The front end submarined and launched me over the seat and straight into the painted steel dashboard. Blood everywhere and a messed up mouth. That dashboard had the imprint of my teeth in it down to bare metal until we got rid of it in 64.
REAL outlaw M-80’S in ’64 in South Carolina.
When I was 10. 1 gross was $7.50 at barefoot
Mac’s fruit,veggie & firecracker stand.A wonder
I got all 10 digits… Blow holes in the yard.
That hammock is precious. It reminds me of directions for making a car seat out of rolled up corrugated cardboard, saw that in a Whole Earth Catalog eons ago.
How did we survive back then? We did and it was a lot of fun before all the ninnies took away all our fun because of liability laws that regulated our every conduct. A friend and I once smacked into a large tree sledding at Manito Park on Spokane’s S. hill when we tried to avoid a kid who crossed right in front of us as we were sledding down the hill. After an ambulance ride to the hospital since my friend was knocked out when we hit the tree and a little patching up we were OK and neither one of our parents sued for any damages, it was all part of growing up back then and taking responsibility for our actions. The city took out all the good kid killers from the park about 20 years or so ago due to liability issues including the merry go round, swings that could launch you into space if you swung high enough and a really cool wooden pirate ship that my kids loved. It was a lot better time to be a kid back then, nowadays they practically wrap them in bubble wrap in order to protect them getting any booboo’s which is too bad. It’s no wonder that the millennials are such a bunch of pussies and snowflakes.
Shrimpngrits, ah yes, the liberal last Whole Earth Catalog from back in the 70’s where you could buy all sorts of very interesting things and read the serialized version of Divine Right’s Trip. It was the hippie bible of all things related to being a hippie including selling the Anarchist’s Cook Book etc. I got rid of all my Whole Earth Catalogs and copies of the Coevolution Quarterly 40 years or so ago in the late 70’s after I grew up and I don’t miss them.
That Lull a baby car hammock was made by the Acme Co. (or Ajax or The Little Giant Novelty Co. of Walla Walla, Wa.) and endorsed by Wile E Coyote.
Did they also have adult sized hammocks?
I remember sitting in one of these between my parents in their ’64 Mercury. The wheel had a squeeker horn in the middle.
http://lovesphotoalbum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1960s-Child-Car-Seat-1024×840.jpg
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I grew up in one in the back of my model T. No brain damage then….
This device was perfectly acceptable in its day — not because it was “safe”, but because people were safe. Our modern concept of “safety” is not about teaching people how to behave responsibly, but more about trying to shield people from the consequences of their own recklessness.
I don’t recall there being a concussion epidemic in football back in the day when helmets were made of leather.
Jethro, that hammock is far better than your car seat.