Vintage mis(un)use!

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NatesMamma

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #1

The pic is from Reminisce Magazine. Here's the caption:

The vehicle my niece Susan Morton and I are riding is a Sears Allstate motor scooter, purchased when I was 17, in 1952. To save postage, I would ride the scooter eight or nine miles to make the payment on it. It was a good excuse to go for a ride.

The scooter didn’t have many safety features. I came close to wiping out once when the throttle cable broke. The only way to stop was to pull the line to the spark plug to kill the engine.

I kept the scooter about 18 months, selling it when I decided I was more interested in a car.
—Joe Malhoit, Allen Park, Michigan

 

Kac

Ambassador - CPS Technician

• Aug 15, 2011

• #2

Oh my.

 

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NatesMamma

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #3

Well, ya know, it looks kinda bad, but since they didn't die it must be OK, right?

 

Kat_Momof3

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #4

no words... just shock someone would let him ride it with a baby behind him.

 

Brianna

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #5

I'm trying to figure out if it was the baby's responsibility to hold on or if she was strapped to him somehow...

 

BabyKaykes

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #6

briheartzu said:

I'm trying to figure out if it was the baby's responsibility to hold on or if she was strapped to him somehow...

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Survival of the fittest... HOLD ON BABY!!!

 

krasota

Well-known member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #7

Or it's just a photo op with her uncle.

My son has sat on motorcycles more than once, but he's never gone for a ride.

 

luckyclov

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #8

Hey, at least my parents had the common sense to stuff me in between the two of them when they took me on a motorcycle as a youngin. I even got a helmet!

 

aeormsby

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #9

I'm guessing the baby was just on there for a photo too. Even in the 50's I can't imagine someone putting a baby behind them.

 

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bnsnyde

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #10

This is how tons of people ride in China and the baby MUST hold on.
I saw this when I was there.
And the traffic was not exactly tame.

 

xursusmaritimusx

New member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #11

anyone been to europe? like italy or spain? people ride scooters all the time with babies/kids just holding on or strapped to them

 

ketchupqueen

CPST and ketchup snob

Staff member

• Aug 15, 2011

• #12

My grandma was telling us yesterday how she would watch her little sisters- she's 14 and 17 years older than them- and when she was 16 she would take her little 2 year old sister to town, and her dad attached a board over the front of her bicycle. She would sit her sister on the handlebars, her sis would rest her feet on the board, and my grandma would pedal the 5 miles into town steering with one hand while she held her little sister with the other so she wouldn't fall! And of course, they didn't have helmets back then... (My grandma turned 90 this past Friday.)

 

Defrost

Moderator - CPSTI Emeritus

• Aug 15, 2011

• #13

Yeah - I used to work with a woman who rode her motorcycle on the highway with her 3yo riding behind her. They both wore helmets, at least. Last time I spoke with her about it, she said she was re-thinking it because the last time they went for a ride her dd kept falling asleep and she nearly had a heart attack reaching back to hold her on and wake her up.

 

alake

New member

• Aug 16, 2011

• #14

I am split with my girls dad. They are three and five, and he has been exposing them to experiences I wasn't quiet ready for them to be exposed to. Riding the four wheeler, and other not necessarily dangerous things, but things I wasn't quiet ready for them to do yet. I don't know if I made the right decision, I am still up in the air about if I did it correctly, but I took the girls out to my mom and dads cabin, and exposed them to things in the way that I wanted them to be exposed to. I gave them boating safety, they have road in boats many times, but taught them properly how I wanted them to learn. I taught them survival, of if they fell in the water what they were supposed to do. I took them out on our ATV, with helmets. I showed them how I expected them to ride with others, where to hold on, and what not. To end the week we went out on our Seadoo, and went for a spin. I taught them about SOS and other items I wanted them to know. I wish I could have held off on this, but I figured I would try to teach them how my parents taught me.

 

Lenae

Active member

• Aug 16, 2011

• #15

Obviously, he's partially sitting on the baby. That will hold her in for sudden stops, duh.

But really, it looks like a photo op.