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LimePink

Senior Community Member
Hey, I'm impressed she was even IN a car seat!

Baby launcher definitely describes that seat well..along with a lot of other not so wonderful words!
 

tjham

New member
This is my son in 1978. He was 6 months old, FF. :eek: This is pretty embarrassing.
BUT, no one else I knew even used seats at all. :rolleyes:
Guess I shouldn't be so hard on Britney.
 
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JessicaS

New member
This is my son in 1978. He was 6 months old, FF. :eek: This is pretty embarrassing.
BUT, no one else I knew even used seats at all. :rolleyes:
Guess I shouldn't be so hard on Britney.

Wow, cool pic! How can that be embarrassing? You were way ahead of the game! :)
 

southpawboston

New member
everybody seems to take a somewhat righteous delight in scorning those old carseats, but based on the state-of-the-art at the time (especially when you consider that cars didn't even come with seat belts back then), they were probably a lot safer than any alternative (which was NOTHING). and kudos to parents who actually invested money into those things with the thought on making their kiddos safer when the norm back then was to just let their kiddos plop down unrestrained.
 

ThreeBeans

New member
This is my son in 1978. He was 6 months old, FF. :eek: This is pretty embarrassing.
BUT, no one else I knew even used seats at all. :rolleyes:
Guess I shouldn't be so hard on Britney.

Hey, don't be embarassed. That looks like probably the best available for the time, right?
 

SusanMae

Senior Community Member
I rode in something similar to that...only mine was black and I don't think there was as much padding around the bar.

Susan
 

southpawboston

New member
damn, i had *nothing* as a small child in the 70s... not even a seatbelt. i was "free to roam the cabin" as they say in airline parlance. :eek: not to mention, any vehicle back then was a death trap, straight out of the showroom floor. :(
 

ThreeBeans

New member
I was born in 1980, and I had a carseat. I remember it was leather, forward facing. Brown, with an overhead shieldy thing. My mother used it for all of us right through my brother who was born in 1987 :rolleyes:

I've seen a picture on here that looked very like mine....I wonder what it was.
 

mcomommy

New member
I was born in 1980, and I had a carseat. I remember it was leather, forward facing. Brown, with an overhead shieldy thing. My mother used it for all of us right through my brother who was born in 1987 :rolleyes:

I've seen a picture on here that looked very like mine....I wonder what it was.

I was born in 83 and I think I had the same seat lol
 

An Aurora

Senior Community Member
My sister was born in 1980 and her "car seat" was a Johnny Jumper bolted to the roof of my mom's van.

I was born in 1985 and I had an OHS car seat for awhile, but there are an awful lot of pictures of me totally unrestrained. And when I was older (4-8) my sister and I used to ride totally unrestrained in the back of the truck (w/ a canopy).
 

Lea_Ontario

Well-known member
Car seats had to start somewhere, right ? Something is better than nothing, and they've just continued to improve the safety of them.
 

joolsplus3

Admin - CPS Technician
damn, i had *nothing* as a small child in the 70s... not even a seatbelt. i was "free to roam the cabin" as they say in airline parlance. :eek: not to mention, any vehicle back then was a death trap, straight out of the showroom floor. :(

Most of the time I was free, too...but my mom had a Karmann Ghia with no backseat, just a 'shelf' and she bolted a seat to it for me! I'd kill for a picture of that :rolleyes:
 

joolsplus3

Admin - CPS Technician
This is my son in 1978. He was 6 months old, FF. :eek: This is pretty embarrassing.
BUT, no one else I knew even used seats at all. :rolleyes:
Guess I shouldn't be so hard on Britney.
Aw, he's cute! They didn't even have crash testing till 1981, so don't be even a bit embarrassed :rolleyes:
 

all together ooky

New member
I never had a carseat. My mom brags about how she would put my on the floor of the front passenger seat when I was an infant. She thought that was safe. When I got older my favorite place to sit was the fold-down arm rest so I could see out the front window (I did wear a lap belt). As a kid I didn't know anyone who had a carseat. And I'm not THAT old. :p
 

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