4 thoughts on “Lady in the hospital in the 1970’s”
in the 1970s it was not uncommon at all to see people driving with a can of beer (or worse) in their hand; lots of cars still had no seatbelts or safety glass, we fueled our cars with leaded gasoline under a hazy brownish yellow sky.
When I was very little (4-5 yr old), our family GP weighed about 350 lbs and was a chain smoker. When you were called into the exam rooms, they were hazy with cigarette smoke and ashtray stink, and I still remember how he reeked when he was smoking during an exam. That would be mid/late 1950s.
I think the walls of the hospital I spent time in during the ’70s and early ’80s were a little better.
I was too young to smoke and didn’t want to, but I seem to remember cigarette smoke being common. But then, my Mom smoked, so maybe that is what I am remembering.
When my brother was born, mom delayed going into the hospital because the first thing they did was take her glasses and cigarettes. She couldn’t read or smoke.
in the 1970s it was not uncommon at all to see people driving with a can of beer (or worse) in their hand; lots of cars still had no seatbelts or safety glass, we fueled our cars with leaded gasoline under a hazy brownish yellow sky.
When I was very little (4-5 yr old), our family GP weighed about 350 lbs and was a chain smoker. When you were called into the exam rooms, they were hazy with cigarette smoke and ashtray stink, and I still remember how he reeked when he was smoking during an exam. That would be mid/late 1950s.
I think the walls of the hospital I spent time in during the ’70s and early ’80s were a little better.
I was too young to smoke and didn’t want to, but I seem to remember cigarette smoke being common. But then, my Mom smoked, so maybe that is what I am remembering.
When my brother was born, mom delayed going into the hospital because the first thing they did was take her glasses and cigarettes. She couldn’t read or smoke.