Honestly, I know the 50's and 60's were visually 'challenging'....but, I truly believe that
the 70's won the prize! OMG...that shag carpet! Does anyone remember foil wallpaper?
http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress...decades/1970s/
Honestly, I know the 50's and 60's were visually 'challenging'....but, I truly believe that
the 70's won the prize! OMG...that shag carpet! Does anyone remember foil wallpaper?
http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress...decades/1970s/
Did any of you have an attic? In one of the earliest houses we lived in we had a huge attic where my brother and I would go up there to watch TV, play games and even try to ride tricycles around without making noise.
Anyone remember 'bead curtains'? I had some hanging in my first apartment and boy, did I think I was way too cool....NOT!
Foil wallpaper and let's not forget about 'floss' wallpaper, too. Just as delightful!
Who remember these?
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Hey remember those pole album racks,man i loved those things.
Memories of the sixties! Yes I remember those pole album racks with the metal brackets, slot to hold the albums. I wouldn't use them now. I think they would make the records warp after a while.
I remember the aluminum trees. I liked them, but they were not as big as our real trees.
Remember when you'd go to the doctor's and they made you take off your clothes and put a 'patient gown' on? Thankfully, those days are gone....as are those white lab coats for a lot of docs. Mine usually waltzes in in jeans.
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That makes me think about all of these commercials with "doctors" where they all have a stethoscope hanging around their necks. I have never once been to a doctor who walks around with a stethoscope around his or her neck. A lot of time, they actually will have "actor portrayal" at the bottom of the screen and the device and a white jacket are supposed to convince you that they're authentic.
But I remember those darned gowns. I'd swear, they turned the air conditioner down to 65 degrees, knowing that you had to sit there, semi-naked, on a piece of paper pulled onto a cold chair/chaise. Not cool...
Saving money by not washing and sterilizing them. That reminds me that I saw a news report about how many poor families can't afford diapers, which cost as much as $1,000 per year. Anybody remember this:
They could save a thousand bucks per year by buying cloth diapers and a box of Tide.
Worse! I remember when diapers were just a square piece of white cloth material and you mother had to fold it in a shape to fit the baby and then fasten it on both sides with big safety pins.
LOL. We use those around the place as rags. I remember them hanging on the clothes line. My wife says that plastic diapers are more sanitary and nobody has time to wash a dozen poopy diapers a day.
Women in my mother and grandmothers generations were something else! They would wash all of that laundry and hang it out on several clothes lines. Then at the end of the day, go out and take it all down, bring it in the house, fold, iron and put it away! I don't even remember any of them complaining about it!
I know I'm not the only one who had some Chucks back in the day. Bought some a few years ago and they had no arch support at all. They looked cool but my feet were sore.
Remember the corduroy pants with the elastic waste? I use to wear them until at least the first grade. LOL!
Remember shoe polish! Haven't done that in years.
I also remember Kiwi shoe polish.
I still have some [[solid brick) from the 1960s. So, it hasn't evaporated, and is still useable. I don't throw useful things away. But, I never use my black dress shoes, so, maybe I should give it away? I go to maybe 1 wedding/bar mitzvah or other dress up social event per year in USA. And I wear my brown dress shoes. In Europe, I'm known as an "artist", so I can wear sneakers or even go barefoot to a wedding and no one would say a word.
Hey marv, my son brought me a pair of[chucks]back with him when he got out of the service[12yrs ago]...and i still have em!!
Remember when-security guards were called[night watchmen]and had to carry those heavy clocks around and each hour they had to turn a key in those things or the alarms in the building would go off,haaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Sure, I remember Bob Cousy. He was the best guard in The NBA at the beginning of the 1950s, and before Oscar Robertson. He had his own brand of basketball shoes. We didn't know all that much about The NBA in Canada in those days. And, even in my regular visits to Chicago, I didn't get much exposure, as that city's franchise [[The Stags) last season was 1949-50. They didn't get another team [[The Packers/Zephyrs) until after I moved there, in 1961.
Is anyone old enough to remember those pneumatic tubes they had for money transactions in department stores. I barely remember them. I was fascinated by
them as little kid.
Does anybody remember these?
How many of you remember this?
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If you don't, you'll remember soon enough when Spanky the Moron privatizes infrastructure improvement by letting his buddies create toll roads all over the country. But I digress...
It's been so long since I've taken a road trip that I am surprised if those don't still exist!
Haaaaaaa,hey robb,that packers team morphed into the wizards team that plays in d.c. And yes bob cousy was da man.
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