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gee doesn't everyone's house have those?

funny how this looks today but hey, we were STYLING back then!

http://homes.yahoo.com/photos/memory-lane-15-household-items-slides...

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Permalink Reply by T2Friends on February 22, 2014 at 6:34pm

mid century modern is very in vogue again. The lamp, the clock, you would still be styling today!

Permalink Reply by Wayne Goodwin on February 22, 2014 at 7:14pm

.Have had one many yeas ago. My cousin bought his wife one for her birthday a year or so ago ...

Permalink Reply by carrie cavanaugh on February 22, 2014 at 8:29pm

When my oldest daughter kept losing the cordless phone in her very messy room, I went and found a rotary phone at a goodwill store. I swear the thing weighed 20 lbs. Plugged it into her room, thinking she is not going to go for this. I was wrong she absolutely loved it, thought it was the coolest thing.

Permalink Reply by frenchy on February 23, 2014 at 5:13am

the pole lamps were cool cause you had a light wherever you wanted or needed it .. livin in the projects all you got was a single lightbulb in the ceiling .. so my mom had one of them pole lights .. the shades eventually crumbled away .. i guess they weren't thinkin about the long haul when they made them and the heat that a bulb gives off .. but then plastic back then was kinda crude .. there are a lot of old guitars that the pickguards and binding around the necks and bodies was made of bakalite and now 50 and 60 years later they've shrunk .. and some of em leave nasty marks in the case itself from bein left in there .. its called gassing out ..

i don't see the phone table in the pic but we had one of them too .. but the bar .. hell no .. my mom pretty much kicked my dad out for drinkin too much , he didn't need a bar for encouragement .. and the one thing that i remember that my mom and both of her sisters had was a mantle piece .. all of em growin up in the orphanage and then goin straight to apartments in new york when they got out it really meant somethin to em .. they all had one .. and different styles too .. i think all of em are gone now except for my moms .. she was gonna toss hers and i said no mom give it to me please so she actually had it boxed up and sent it to me .. and i'll keep it till i die .. its pretty cool too . it has the wood logs and a bulb behind that makes it look like its on fire .. when i was a kid for christmas she would hang up stockins for me and my sister .. light it up on a cold nite and even tho it really did nothin to make the room warmer it made you think it did .. i'm not sure if you could buy one of them things now if you wanted to unless you got it at a garage sale or somethin . but somehow that mantle made a place seem like home .. funny how somethin dumb like that can grow on you ain't it ??

Permalink Reply by Lifesighs on February 23, 2014 at 10:12am

I'm feeling deprived, never had any of those.

Permalink Reply by blithe spirit on February 23, 2014 at 10:41am

I've found a satellite type lamp shade I'm going to buy for the overhead light in my foyer and then put a mirror framed similar to the clock on the wall...a little goes a long way but I like the look.

My Mom has all the film stuff..super 8 movies to slide projector.

I remember when I was growing up my folks did the black and white look..formica topped surfboard style tables and tweedy free form couch and chairs...ooooo...and the butterfly chairs. And the stereo..OMG..such a big deal in our family...not so much for the TV though..we didn't get a TV till I was in jr high.

Permalink Reply by Wayne Goodwin on February 24, 2014 at 3:18pm

So they had leg lamps. Did they ever have breast lamps ?

Permalink Reply by crestofwaves on February 23, 2014 at 9:34pm

Back in the 70s my friend had a tomato red shag rug, a bar like this one with mirrored tiles that had gold veins in them stuck up on the wall behind it-- and all this was stuffed into a teeny tiny garden apartment. I was already married and settled and loved to go to her place because it looked like sin city to me.

One of the only times I had a non paranoid high was in the little apartment when she had a lot of people over and they were all smoking pot. None touched my lips that night because I ALWAYS got paranoid from it, but that night, I did not get paranoid.

gee doesn't everyone's house have those?

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