Many items are things many of us have as part of what we collect. Interesting. They just don't know what they're missing
15 items from our childhood new household will never see
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That first picture could have been from my parents home. The pole lamp between the recliners. That Seth Thomas Wall clock is in moms house today. All these were in our den that in 1964 mom had paneled in light birch panel was put over horrid wallpaper with twining ivy and flowers. When the house was built in 1950 the wall paper was put in and mom told my aunt and uncle the wallpaper should grow on you. My uncle said it would have to grow on him for a long long time.
That first picture could have been from my parents home. The pole lamp between the recliners. That Seth Thomas Wall clock is in moms house today. All these were in our den that in 1964 mom had paneled in light birch panel was put over horrid wallpaper with twining ivy and flowers. When the house was built in 1950 the wall paper was put in and mom told my aunt and uncle the wallpaper should grow on you. My uncle said it would have to grow on him for a long long time.
whirlcool
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That Jerrold Cable box was the very first one we received from out cable company when cable came to the neighborhood in 1983. It had a long, long cord attached so you could flip through the stations from your seating position. No remote control.
I kind of miss console televisions. Some were more like furniture than electronics.
I kind of miss console televisions. Some were more like furniture than electronics.
TVs in a wooden coffin (they make me shreak)
Thank God and congratulations newer generations never have to experience these horrible tube TV sets in their Frankenstein castle-type wooden furniture chest.
This fashion passed by leaving Europe untouched but the little time I spent in the US (just during this very period: they had these diabolical clunk-clunk channel floater dials back then, along with this fzzzzzt-wweeeept fine-tuning ring)
...that modest time I had to spend there: I mean how COULD anyone want to have a TV set in a carved wooden shrine at all?
Want me to weekly cut the claws of the lion's paws? Want to get the plastic-cut out wild vine trimmed to regrow next spring? Why have this window-blinds roll-down fence to protect that bulbous screen?
Bad enough (or just state of the art) that TV screens had to be bulging out like a fish eye, but why cover them in this horrible wooden trash furniture?
I could never get it. But rethinking it for some retro punk shop: Why not have them back around? The most repelling designs get the best prices today.
Thank God and congratulations newer generations never have to experience these horrible tube TV sets in their Frankenstein castle-type wooden furniture chest.
This fashion passed by leaving Europe untouched but the little time I spent in the US (just during this very period: they had these diabolical clunk-clunk channel floater dials back then, along with this fzzzzzt-wweeeept fine-tuning ring)
...that modest time I had to spend there: I mean how COULD anyone want to have a TV set in a carved wooden shrine at all?
Want me to weekly cut the claws of the lion's paws? Want to get the plastic-cut out wild vine trimmed to regrow next spring? Why have this window-blinds roll-down fence to protect that bulbous screen?
Bad enough (or just state of the art) that TV screens had to be bulging out like a fish eye, but why cover them in this horrible wooden trash furniture?
I could never get it. But rethinking it for some retro punk shop: Why not have them back around? The most repelling designs get the best prices today.
on the other hand: touch buttons and Jetson family's sty
McGuyver is not far away talking about Osterizers and Waring blendors with this cash register type of control board. Highly uncomfortable what comes to cleaning out the grooves of the buttons = useless in practical daily work, yet so handsomely "Jetson style" that I love it.
One thing missing on the list: Metal machines covered with PVC woodgrain plastic fronts (washers, cars, whatever you can think of)
Simply PUNK, that is ;-)
And I love 12 metres spiral cords for telephone receivers on wall units: Wind them around your ankles and around floor vases: Yielding you hours of fun dreaming away about wireless phones. Wall phones ARE COOL.
McGuyver is not far away talking about Osterizers and Waring blendors with this cash register type of control board. Highly uncomfortable what comes to cleaning out the grooves of the buttons = useless in practical daily work, yet so handsomely "Jetson style" that I love it.
One thing missing on the list: Metal machines covered with PVC woodgrain plastic fronts (washers, cars, whatever you can think of)
Simply PUNK, that is ;-)
And I love 12 metres spiral cords for telephone receivers on wall units: Wind them around your ankles and around floor vases: Yielding you hours of fun dreaming away about wireless phones. Wall phones ARE COOL.
norgeway
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I would LOVE
To go back to a round tube color set, unless you have ever experienced one , you have never seen color tv, it is a much softer, more realistic color, like the movies used to look.not the glaring garishly bright color of today.
To go back to a round tube color set, unless you have ever experienced one , you have never seen color tv, it is a much softer, more realistic color, like the movies used to look.not the glaring garishly bright color of today.
The youngsters got a couple of things wrong: First, pole lamps appeared inteh late 40-early 50s and were popular into the 60s. Second, records were not awlays vinyl. T first they were shelac and very brittle. During WWII, radio programs were transcribed onto discs for broadcast to the troops. Because of scarcity of materials sometimes the discs were made of glass covered with metal foil for the groove formation.
Typewriters are still handy for filling out printed forms and applications.
Bread warmers are still useful. The well-designed Saltons had the cloth cover so that moisture could escape and the bread did not get soggy.
Typewriters are still handy for filling out printed forms and applications.
Bread warmers are still useful. The well-designed Saltons had the cloth cover so that moisture could escape and the bread did not get soggy.
twintubdexter
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don't give console televisions too bad a bad rap
Of the hundreds of consoles I bought as a TV/Stereo buyer for department store, I don't remember any of them looking like a burial casket. This was at a time when console electronics were falling out of favor but they still were popular. I think people bought cabinet style first and then considered picture quality. Like laundry appliances, there are those connoisseur collectors out there.
and those cabinets can be recylced...here kitty kitty
Of the hundreds of consoles I bought as a TV/Stereo buyer for department store, I don't remember any of them looking like a burial casket. This was at a time when console electronics were falling out of favor but they still were popular. I think people bought cabinet style first and then considered picture quality. Like laundry appliances, there are those connoisseur collectors out there.
and those cabinets can be recylced...here kitty kitty
Fun link, Bob!
Bread warmers. About three years ago, my friend mentioned that she remembered an appliance they had as kids that warmed the rolls. A few weeks later I handed her a NIB Salton from an estate sale, $4. She was elated and took it to work for a pot-luck food day.. She came home with orders for three more, another guy in the office bought one for his wife and one for the office on ebay. I found three different cloth cover designs and even a few replacement covers NIP. Estate sales of the last year or so haven't been coughing up as many fun treasures.
We had a pole-tension lamp in the 70's, ordered from Sears' catalog. Ours was gold with three spun-thread globes in orange, avocado and yellow-gold. It was a sight to behold when lit. We also had a tension pole cabinet & shelf unit that fit over the toilet. Another interior design tragedy from a catalog, no doubt.
Bread warmers. About three years ago, my friend mentioned that she remembered an appliance they had as kids that warmed the rolls. A few weeks later I handed her a NIB Salton from an estate sale, $4. She was elated and took it to work for a pot-luck food day.. She came home with orders for three more, another guy in the office bought one for his wife and one for the office on ebay. I found three different cloth cover designs and even a few replacement covers NIP. Estate sales of the last year or so haven't been coughing up as many fun treasures.
We had a pole-tension lamp in the 70's, ordered from Sears' catalog. Ours was gold with three spun-thread globes in orange, avocado and yellow-gold. It was a sight to behold when lit. We also had a tension pole cabinet & shelf unit that fit over the toilet. Another interior design tragedy from a catalog, no doubt.
Kept from childhood
I have a black rotary desk phone, always works during a power outage. My uncle took the pole lamp and made nice bases into 3 wall lamps I still have. Still have my mothers GE console color tv with click tuner that still works fine. I have some of those very breakable 78's and can play them on our old Magnavox stereo console. Have an Oliveti portable typewriter in the attic. Have my parents Seth Thomas wall clock and thats just what has been spoken about so far.
I have a black rotary desk phone, always works during a power outage. My uncle took the pole lamp and made nice bases into 3 wall lamps I still have. Still have my mothers GE console color tv with click tuner that still works fine. I have some of those very breakable 78's and can play them on our old Magnavox stereo console. Have an Oliveti portable typewriter in the attic. Have my parents Seth Thomas wall clock and thats just what has been spoken about so far.
Used to call those bathroom shelf things Johnny pole cabinets or something like that. Dad had a pretty basic 3 lamp pole light beside his lazyboy.
I haven't seen many of the bread warmers at the thrifts either but I am seeing a lot of the electric hot trays and older crockpots.
I haven't seen many of the bread warmers at the thrifts either but I am seeing a lot of the electric hot trays and older crockpots.
Typewriter?
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Olympia "Monica" electric
Olympia "Monica II" electronic
Hermes 3000 Script Typewriter (manual)
Land line telephone?
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Record player?
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Denon
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Olympia "Monica" electric
Olympia "Monica II" electronic
Hermes 3000 Script Typewriter (manual)
Land line telephone?
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Record player?
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Denon
cornutt
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Unfortunately...
for the old phones, most residential phone lines are on multiplexors nowdays rather than being wired directly to the central office. And as we found out after the 2011 tornado outbreak, the batteries on those multiplexors are only good for about 12 hours.
for the old phones, most residential phone lines are on multiplexors nowdays rather than being wired directly to the central office. And as we found out after the 2011 tornado outbreak, the batteries on those multiplexors are only good for about 12 hours.
cornutt
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And...
was that a Bell & Howell Slide Cube projector?
was that a Bell & Howell Slide Cube projector?
We used a bun warmer all the time. Ours was the same color as the one shown. Had completely forgotten about them!
I sill have several of the console TV sets. Color and b/w. I also have the rotary phones. Quite a few of them.
Here is a picture of my 1959 Magnavox console TV that I have in the living room. It is b/w and plays great.
Here is a picture of my 1959 Magnavox console TV that I have in the living room. It is b/w and plays great.
