The picture is a little blurry, but there’s like a 95% chance he’s holding a beer and lit cigarette too
Also, that beer is NOT his first beer that day.
I would also say that cameras were probably not that common to be held by kids back then either. I would say there is a good chance whoever took the photo was an adult as well.
“Did you guys reinforce the ramp?”
”No, we didn’t have time.”
… “Cool…”
And that’s how you learned to reinforce the ramp.
Adult? Well… that’s Uncle Charlie. He smokes a lot of some funny smelling tobacco, but he’s cool! He knows a lot of things like how to fix cars, how to collect baseball cards, how the government is spying on everyone, how to get lucky with the ladies, and he helps us with our math homework. He also says our neighbors are “commies” but I’m pretty sure their name is “Connor”. Right now he works at the meat packing plant, but he plans on going into management (whatever that is) once the right opportunity comes along. He says the secret to his success is growing a real thick mustache. Really, more of a big brother, yanno?
Me and my friends did this all the time, I can’t believe my little brother is still alive (I never landed on him).
This picture predates safety. Back then you just had to not think about getting hurt and you were probably gonna be OK.
That dude has 9 kids; he figures it’s okay to lose one or two.
Idk, it looks pretty fake tbh. If it really is old, then they probably just overlayed the boy on the bike during the darkroom process.
Maybe fake, but I have no doubt this happened many times. We did this exact thing in the 80s with BMXs, there were injuries, we did it again.
