Can the adults please smoke?- Page 69

[TorontoBoy]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 9:55pm

Ours was orange and brown velvet, we thought it was stunning. I guess during that time it was. Ugly furniture.

[mominator]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:09pm

My aunt still has a sunburst clock in her livingroom!
We had Quisp in our area last year for a bit, it was so neat.

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:11pm

Our clock hung over the cabinet style 'Hi-fi' with the lift up lid. The 50's and 60's version of the Victrola.

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:14pm

And then there were the big console tv sets that took up half the livingroom room. The best were RCA and Motorola.

Did anyone have those strange lamps with the bullet shaped orange plastic shades with the bumps on them? We had a couple of them on teh end tables below the paintings of the waife children with the big eyes.

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:18pm

Nina - much too modern for our little 'colonial' neck of the woods. And my mother refused to look at a blank TV screen when it was off, so we had built-ins that housed 'the monster.'

Are the 'waifs' you refer to Holly Hobby?

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:25pm

No, not Holly Hobby. These were pretty popular paintings of kids that were ofenten dressed in halequin costumes or Oliveresque outfits and had big sad eyes. They were quite popular in the 60's and 70's.

The orange covered lamps were quite modern. Mom was the mini skirt wearing type with the cool Marlo Thomas That Girl hair and she liked to have very modern, groovy 60's furnishings. I can't actaully remember it as I was an infant in the late 60's but I see it in photos. This was before the 70's crushed velvet phase.

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:27pm

Having married a conservative Catholic, my mother was more the June Cleaver type - if June had a black eye. Ooops, too negative - nevermind.

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:31pm

We were absolutely not the Clevers and mom didn't do housekeeping in pearls. She was more the type to go into the city with boyfreinds for shows and night clubs. She was a pretty swinging chick. I guess that's where I got it.

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:31pm

Nina - I know the ones you mean - done in kind of somber sepia tones - we didn't have them, but I think all my friend's folks did

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:39pm

These are the paintings I mean. I searched Google and found an Ebay listing for some

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20149&item=3738947801&rd=1

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:43pm

Yes, thems the ones! It AMAZES me what you can find on E-bay. I've never gotten involved, for fear I would spend our life's savings!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:46pm

oh my GOSH - I had paintings so similar to those in my bedroom! I haven't thought about them in years.


Our living room had plastic over everything. Mom didn't want the fabric ruined, so all the furniture had plastic slip covers. It was brutal in the summer!

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:46pm

I should search for ugly lumpy orange plastic lamps. They would be so cool in a retro way.

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:48pm

Oh, NYadgal - I have always been supremely grateful that we didn't make that final leap into plastic hell.

I had friends who did, though - and they had plastic runners through the carpeted rooms.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:48pm

We moved when I was in 6th grade (same town, different house), so mom went from traditional 50s to groovy 70s in the 'den' - with the wall unit that wasn't a piece of furniture, but wooden shelves hanging at different heights...and lots of groovy accessories!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:50pm

DGrant - we STILL tease mom about the plastic...

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:52pm

Did you have any of those chairs that were shaped like a hand and cupped your butt when you sat in them?

The proudest day of my life was when mom bought me a red bean bag chair for my bedroom.

[TorontoBoy]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:54pm

I loved those bean bag chairs. Mom bought my brother and I one each in different colors. Forgot about those Nina, they were great

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:55pm

Bean bags were great...

DGrant even admitted to a fake fur one a few pages ago!

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Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:56pm

Wow - you all sound like you got to live in the 'groovy' places. We were SO stuck in traditionalist hell. We were near Williamsburg, and everyone around us was upper level Navy - hence, VERY conservative.

Funny thing is, I ended up with someone else with a fairly conservative background, and so that's how we live - I guess it's our comfort zone.

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:57pm

Speaking of fur, I just remembered the fake fur rugs that were shaped like a foot. Mom gave me one of those for my room too. I had forgotten about it. It was bright orange.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:59pm

DGrant - the groovy was relative!

I had a very traditional childhood - (which, I admit, I'm grateful for. Roots are good.)

I grew up in preppy-ville...but will give my parents credit for not going totally "Stepford" on us...

Posted: 8/2/04 at 10:59pm

Nina - I think one of the 'girls' here had the same rug. In orange, even. And MY bean-bag chair (I actually got one for my bedroom) was fake fur - tiger-striped, to be exact

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:00pm

LOL - one of the 'girls'...

as I've mentioned, I got shag carpet...with a rake. Was very excited about that!

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 11:01pm

All this talk about the furnishings of my childhood has me longing to search Ebay and find some of this stuff for my apartment.