Cities seemed to compete over which could stage the most lugubrious anti-car demonstrations. Memphis planted black flags at accident sites. Baltimore erected an obelisk inscribed with the names of dead children, while St. Louis built a cherub-festooned monument titled “In Memory of Child Life Sacrificed upon the Altar of Haste and Recklessness.” In Pittsburgh, a “safety parade” included a float depicting a girl crushed between cars. A demonstration in Milwaukee incorporated a trashed automobile on a trailer: behind the wheel sat Satan himself.
maybe we should bring these back?
