We didn't even have seatbelts....had never heard of them. I rode bikes barefoot without a helmet. I walked by myself to a little grocery store with a nickle for candy. I also played with the mercury in thermometers. Went barefoot everyplace....even to the stores. Ate stuff out of my grandma's garden without washing it.
When I got older I used to take the car out on country roads and drag race. We swam in strip pits. We went into vacant houses at night to scare each other. We played tag with our cars in hayfields. And 60 years later I am still here.