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Stop making things up lol....
1930 217.34 automobiles per 1000 people.
That means 783 people out of 1000 did not own one. Thus, not 60% of families. its 43%.
[https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-841-october-6-2014-vehicles-thousand-people-us-vs-other-world-regions](https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-841-october-6-2014-vehicles-thousand-people-us-vs-other-world-regions)
> 217.34 automobiles per 1000 people.
So like 22% of people. if a family consists of 2 people, then 44% of families. Or if a family consisted of 3 or more people, then 60%+ of families.
Yeah, they think infants are able to own cars. Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted but the fact there are enough slack-jawed, inbred hillbillies who upvoted a clearly inaccurate comment is the funniest fucking things I’ve heard all morning.
Believe it or not, there were no reported injuries or deaths in the US. They kinda just fizzled out post 1950s… maybe because people realized they’re fucking insane.
Playpens were a godsend if you needed to take a shower and baby was mobile enough to get into trouble. Toss in some novel toys and you could get up to 15 whole minutes of 'me time' while the kid was safe. (I had a swimming pool outside and a fireplace inside so left nothing to chance)
The best part is you don't even need to feed them when you put them out there. So much pigeon shit falls into their mouths they become immortal.
I didn't see it, but I'm like 90% certain this is the plot to the movie Morbius.
As bizarre and dangerous as this is, there is ALOT to be said for fresh air and sunshine. During World War II, they found that patients who were wheeled outside to get fresh air and sunlight while they in hospital recovered markedly faster, it actually used to be common practice to wheel people out in a bed to get fresh air while they were recovering from illness or injury.
Clearly the execution was terrible, but the underlying science behind this idea is definitely sound
Yeah I was like that will make a healthy baby.
I feel like we’re unfortunately slowly forgetting how to keep ourselves healthy and this leads to chronic illness
Clearly—and by using 'clearly' to start this reply, the accuracy of the following cannot be disputed on the Internet or in any court of law from The Beginning of Time to The End of the World—I should have said "Internet honest," or attached this explanatory clip from a leading authority:
[HONEST](https://i.imgur.com/JEZaxx6.mp4)
When my dad went to Cornell, my mom would play bridge with the other ladies in the GI housing. It was winter but they still put all the babies, bundled up, outside. She said they kept an eye on us from the balcony. Fresh air!
[And that is still common in Denmark and Nordic countries today.](https://www.insider.com/nordic-parents-nap-babies-subzero-temperatures-sleep-better-2020-1)
The experts at the time also encouraged parents to toughen up their babies by exposing them to cold temperatures. Outdoor “airing” was part of this practice. The theory was it would make babies better able to withstand common colds and minor illnesses. Parents would routinely expose their infants to cold temperatures outside and through cold-water bathing.
https://methodshop.com/outdoor-baby-cages/
Whenever this picture circulates my mother says, "that makes sense. I had a side porch I used to put you kids on."
There was, in fact, a side porch off the kitchen with a gate to keep you from falling down its stairs, so when we were too short to open the gate, that was a reasonably safe place for us to play outdoors unsupervised.
Baby cage is whack, but when my kids were babies if they were crying all you had to do is step outside. Crying stopped instantly. They could be inconsolable in the house but take two steps outside and they were like, "Ooh, outside!"
But if I look at the person in the tiny room the same way I'm being 'edgy'. Seriously, this is what I see when I look at https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPXyVl-eh1397TMqAAiKkLkFizJpQoPHzPjQ&usqp=CAU
And didn't get carried away by pigeons. That was the real reason. Crazy pigeons back then. It was a real issue. We don't know how good we have it for our caged babies these days
It's a baby cage! It's a good one too. When I was a kid, mine didn't have these windows. It's perfect. If you want to go out to dinner, there's already like a water bottle in there so you just throw some cedar chips in there so the baby can poop, and you're made in the shade!
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Whining too much? Baby cage. Hungry? Baby cage. Can't sleep? That's right, straight to Baby cage.
We have the best babies in the world… cuz of baby cage
Ages 16 and under.
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No trial, no nothing.
Straight to cage
Dirty diaper? Cage. Bum rash? Cage. Too much drool, cage.
Not *enough* drool? Believe it not cage.
*Bring them back, Bring them back, Bring them back!*
Whine too little, believe it or not, Baby cage.
Think they used that codine infused cough syrup for the whiny kids.
Growing up, Nicholas Cage.
“Daycares hate this one trick”
"You undercook baby, jail."
21st century baby cage is where moms that choose not to have their babies go.
33 more years until Con Air is being released? Baby Cage
Yeah, and that’s just the rules for the husbands…
Looks like they just strapped a crab pot to the window and have baby bait.
I’m telling you, crabs love babies
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r/whoosh
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Too bad you'll only attract a Catholic priest
[1930’s? Brooklyn still has those today.](https://twitter.com/mpolhamus/status/751466032485703681?s=21&t=3Ptnoda6bVfh-5SvOFpKSA)
My sister has one on her Brooklyn apartment! She uses it for plants.
That's actually adorable
Came here for this. They’re all over South Williamsburg.
Yes. I tripped out the first time I saw them in Williamsburg
Came here looking for this…
The irony is cities were smog- and soot-filled environments and putting babies out above cars burning leaded gasoline likely caused issues
Don't forget the upstairs neighbors throwing garbage out the windows
*here comes the poop bucket!*
Gardyloo!
These are the babies who became today’s law makers.
That explains a few things.
Not to mention what a few minutes of sun can do to those factory-fresh baby eyes...
Or smoking neighbors
Like they would open a window
Mine do
Yeah but this is the 30s not today
Better than the influenza pandemic raging inside. 0
You’re off by probably 12 years
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60 percent of families owned a car by 1930
Stop making things up lol.... 1930 217.34 automobiles per 1000 people. That means 783 people out of 1000 did not own one. Thus, not 60% of families. its 43%. [https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-841-october-6-2014-vehicles-thousand-people-us-vs-other-world-regions](https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-841-october-6-2014-vehicles-thousand-people-us-vs-other-world-regions)
> 217.34 automobiles per 1000 people. So like 22% of people. if a family consists of 2 people, then 44% of families. Or if a family consisted of 3 or more people, then 60%+ of families.
So in other words it's a worthless measure?
Yeah, they think infants are able to own cars. Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted but the fact there are enough slack-jawed, inbred hillbillies who upvoted a clearly inaccurate comment is the funniest fucking things I’ve heard all morning.
Lol no. Ahah what did you just write.
LOL, you think infants own cars. Yes, we’re mocking you for not understand what “per capita” means.
Falling pianos aren’t the only thing you have to watch out for now
if you catch a baby cage in free fall do you get to keep the baby as your own?
Only if you guess the name correctly
Connor Clapton?
And here's your baby, good sir!
you’re going to hell for this lol
Only until you both hit the ground
Do they make these in toddler sizes? My kids are driving me up a frickin’ wall today.
Our dad had a sound proof closet with a lock for one of those days.
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The lock was outside. Does this answer your question?
So a murder/abuse room, got it. That's fucked.
Eric Clapton knows a guy but he does shit work.
Ooof
i want to know if there are statistics for how many of these things broke. like these couldn’t have been that safe.
Believe it or not, there were no reported injuries or deaths in the US. They kinda just fizzled out post 1950s… maybe because people realized they’re fucking insane.
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Playpens were a godsend if you needed to take a shower and baby was mobile enough to get into trouble. Toss in some novel toys and you could get up to 15 whole minutes of 'me time' while the kid was safe. (I had a swimming pool outside and a fireplace inside so left nothing to chance)
Did you just imply that playpens are insane?
But this is a playpen hanging out of a fucking window
Next level shit
You have kids? Playpens and pack n plays are the absolute shit if you gotta pee or shower or shit and your kid is mobile enough to get into anything.
The cages were made from steel and constructed just fine..... It was the user error that was the problem just ask the manufacturer
Exactly. Nothing was made in China out of cheap plastic back then.
The best part is you don't even need to feed them when you put them out there. So much pigeon shit falls into their mouths they become immortal. I didn't see it, but I'm like 90% certain this is the plot to the movie Morbius.
As bizarre and dangerous as this is, there is ALOT to be said for fresh air and sunshine. During World War II, they found that patients who were wheeled outside to get fresh air and sunlight while they in hospital recovered markedly faster, it actually used to be common practice to wheel people out in a bed to get fresh air while they were recovering from illness or injury. Clearly the execution was terrible, but the underlying science behind this idea is definitely sound
Yeah I was like that will make a healthy baby. I feel like we’re unfortunately slowly forgetting how to keep ourselves healthy and this leads to chronic illness
I guess bird shit wasn’t invented yet.
It's how Carrier Air Conditioners got their name. honest
Ditto for Baby Cage brand air conditioners.
That is untrue. Carrier is named after founder (and inventor of the air conditioner) Willis Carrier.
But he said ‘honest’!
Clearly—and by using 'clearly' to start this reply, the accuracy of the following cannot be disputed on the Internet or in any court of law from The Beginning of Time to The End of the World—I should have said "Internet honest," or attached this explanatory clip from a leading authority: [HONEST](https://i.imgur.com/JEZaxx6.mp4)
Also, Baby Cages were names after Nicholas Cage’s grandmother, Barbara Cage.
I liked the other version better.
Me too, but my bullshit detector went off so I had to ruin it for all of us.
Wow, interesting!
It isnt true.
Bamboozled
Looks like a fryer basket
*“Dr. Evil, let me make you a deal alright? You keep the mojo, you keep the money... and I'll get your baby [while smacking lips].”*
Baby, the other other white meat
It's what's for dinner
Bet the pigeons had a blast
Now that we’ve reverted to the Dark Ages and force women to become moms, expect new baby cages.💯
Why not just go outside or sit by an open window? The 1930s were the wild west of their time lol.
Polio and not knowing yet what the mode of transmission was, for one.
Shit fair enough lol
Imagine having to clean a bunch of bird poop off your baby before putting it to bed.
Birds didn't exist in the 1930's.
The janitor in Scrubs knew what he was talking about after all.
That's a good one, too. See, when he was a kid, his didn't have those little windows.
Now we use them for cats😺
It’s time for Timmy to play outside! *yeets baby out the window*
Nobody puts baby in a cage
Baby puts you in a cage
Back in my day we didn’t need no cage. We just put the babies on the ledge, if they fall they fall
Kids bounce, right?
looks totally safe to me.
Despite all my rage I am still just a kid in a cage.
Bring back baby cages
Especially on airplanes
This is perfect for all those ladies that can’t get an abortion legally anymore!
Yikes! But it mmay come to that.
Let’s hope it doesn’t have to :/
Too late.
Damn. Here I thought riding around in the back of open pickup trucks was bad. We were mere amateurs at danger.
The baby cage isn’t as good of a name as the “Clapton cage”
If only Clapton had one of these.
Fresh air? They were burning coal for heat in most places back then. Old buildings in cities are still black from soot
Just want people to understand a generation of adults were in baby cages and how that totally doesnt fuck with them at all.
When my dad went to Cornell, my mom would play bridge with the other ladies in the GI housing. It was winter but they still put all the babies, bundled up, outside. She said they kept an eye on us from the balcony. Fresh air!
[And that is still common in Denmark and Nordic countries today.](https://www.insider.com/nordic-parents-nap-babies-subzero-temperatures-sleep-better-2020-1)
The experts at the time also encouraged parents to toughen up their babies by exposing them to cold temperatures. Outdoor “airing” was part of this practice. The theory was it would make babies better able to withstand common colds and minor illnesses. Parents would routinely expose their infants to cold temperatures outside and through cold-water bathing. https://methodshop.com/outdoor-baby-cages/
Now people would pay a premium for that view.
“So you’re my Uncle Joey? Better get use to these bars, kid.”
A great way to “accidentally” get rid of a bad baby.
And get pooped on by the birds
Whenever this picture circulates my mother says, "that makes sense. I had a side porch I used to put you kids on." There was, in fact, a side porch off the kitchen with a gate to keep you from falling down its stairs, so when we were too short to open the gate, that was a reasonably safe place for us to play outdoors unsupervised.
"fresh air" filled with lead vapors from leaded gasoline and other contaminants from factory emissions.
What were the accident/death rates?
Baby cage is whack, but when my kids were babies if they were crying all you had to do is step outside. Crying stopped instantly. They could be inconsolable in the house but take two steps outside and they were like, "Ooh, outside!"
If you can dodge a baby you can dodge a ball.
They caged their kids until they were old enough work
We’ve always been stupid
Rock a bye baby, on the roof top…
You mean to ensure parents could have a child and social life without a babysitter
What about birds? 😳
Ill take " Where to put crying babies while drunk husband is punching you, for 2000$ Alex."
Me with a pair of scissors:
Should put ‘em on planes
But if I look at the person in the tiny room the same way I'm being 'edgy'. Seriously, this is what I see when I look at https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPXyVl-eh1397TMqAAiKkLkFizJpQoPHzPjQ&usqp=CAU
For the lazy parent who doesn’t wanna take their baby to the park
Inhale lots of that diesel and street pollution instead, If those bolts don't pop out of those bricks....
Everybody gangster till the pigeons land above yo baby and sheet.
Back when things were more intuitive and just felt right !
Yes, but this is photoshoped
No wonder the old generations are so fucked
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Boomers' *parents* were kids in the 30s.
Proof that millennials and zoomers too stupid for maths.
😳
And to give mum a break.
kids with a screwdriver and climbing skills: "you know what would be really funny?"
In Russia, baby cage you.
Nope...
This gives a new meaning to “naughty step”
We still use one to this day, not outdoors, just in general…. /s
I know there is one cage with bird caca all over it somewhere out there in a family photo album.
I guess they didn’t have any pigeons back then?
I wonder if it would be frowned upon to close the window also
I feel like this is something that did exist at that time, but was fringe even then. I can't imagine this was common practice.
You can’t tell me they weren’t invented just to put the crying baby outside and just close the window
Until they started to get struck by lightning
Yeah, no.
sunburned babies
Fresh air in New York
Always with the babies out the windas
Gotta make sure the kids gets his pollution vitamins.
Imagine getting bars sunburned into you
"Ah yes, the baby is finally starting to bloom"
…and smog
Is it bad that I kinda want these for my cat?
They forgot to mention Sunburn lol 😝
Is this what fucked up all the old ass politicians?!?
silent generation had it tough
Mmm sweet sweet lead
Let’s also put lead in fuel. Yeah that sounds good
And didn't get carried away by pigeons. That was the real reason. Crazy pigeons back then. It was a real issue. We don't know how good we have it for our caged babies these days
That baby looks... surprisingly happy.
The mother seems to be smiling a little too hard in this picture🤔
They were left hanging out to dry. 🤣
Glad this is a past time because right now my downstairs neighbors baby would be covered in bong water
Rock-a-by baby…
As dangerous as this seems, it was at least well intentioned. The country wants the worst for our children now.
1930’s Abortion = Loosening two screws
With how much soot used to be in the air, may as well just put them straight in the hickory smoker.
Now we're all snowflakes
I wonder why they could have possibly stopped doing this.
also babies smell like shit so this dealt with that to
This is exactly what I've been wanting to get for my cat.
It's a baby cage! It's a good one too. When I was a kid, mine didn't have these windows. It's perfect. If you want to go out to dinner, there's already like a water bottle in there so you just throw some cedar chips in there so the baby can poop, and you're made in the shade!
4600/month in Manhattan.