Nostalgic Items That Could Have Killed You in the 70s

[@angelicareal7381]

I still have the glasses at 4:49. I don’t use them obviously, they’re for display purposes only. Still remember when they announced the recall and decided that I wasn’t going to send them back lol.

[@-Thauma-]

Amazing that some of us are still alive after being exposed to all that danger when we were kids 😂

[@jons.6216]

Not that long ago I got a Jarts T-shirt with the classic box logo on it! Closest thing to my ever having or playing with those things! Haha! One time as a teenager my parents dragged me on a road trip early and I had stayed up late the night before. I took a blanket and slept in the back of our Buick Sport Wagon with the back seat folded down! Lucky my dad was a safe driver!

[@jimmyburke2611]

The only very dangerous things I saw on this list were the secondhand smoke and kids without seat belts. The rest seem more like a personal choice (ex. Wearing a bike helmet or not using jarts in an unsafe way) of whether they want to avoid danger or not. Really don't know why we make safety laws like this to limit personal choice, if someone wants to ride a bike without a helmet it effects no one. I really hate public safety laws.

[@reb1050]

It was referred to as "survival of the fittest". Nowadays, many adults have tattoos while adults that grew up in the 50's, 60's and 70's have scars from numerous "incidents" of their childhood. Scars are more interesting because they all have a story behind them.

[@terryhart4090]

We all lived!! I grew up standing in the front seat anytime we went anywhere.

[@jamesmiller4184]

And, for our good, we are now a society unnaturally 'risk-averse.' Improvement? Or not? (Hint: FEAR underpins it all. Further, WHAT has grown from it and so-promises to become even MORE extreme?)

[@jamesmiller4184]

This outfit is PC-Central. I'm out!

[@terryhart4090]

Me too.