Car Wreck Humor, 1904 Style: Is That My Eye On the Dashboard? No, That’s One Of My Ears!

These days, with the nanny-state enforcers of IngSoc and Agenda 21 mandating 3,000 pounds of safety gear on each new motor vehicle, it's refreshing to hear that folks in the very early days of motoring got some good yuks out of the idea of impalement on the tiller of a curved-dash Olds. We've dug up this 1904 Cal Stewart recording of "Uncle Josh In An Automobile" to demonstrate. Yes, those "benzene buggies" and "kerosene wagons" seemed like intergalactic starships back 109 years ago, and a scratchy 78 was the state-of-the-art medium for pop-culture commentary on the subject. Thanks to Archive.org for the music! from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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