Posted on 05/19/2024 9:00:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I remember driving mom and dad crazy with my clackers
The kitchen and bathroom got linoleum floors which were a pain to fit around the toilet and pipes, etc. My father was a weekend "do-it-yourselfer" way before there was such a thing as Home Depot or Lowes. Back then, we'd trek back and forth to the local hardware stores where grouchy old men held sway. Half the time they wouldn't have what was needed and we'd have to go to several different places.
Another thing I remember is the cheap dark paneling my father threw up in the hallway and den. Now that went up fairly easily but it made the den and hallway so dark that we had to keep the lights on even in the daytime.
I have my Mom’s .
Yes - but ours all had arms. Very heavy to move, and bordering on indestructible. I'm not sure where they ended up, but somebody could have built a fairly effective tornado shelter out of the raw materials after dismantling them. :)
Amana...leader in kitchen appliances since 1881.
“From the Spiegel Catalog. Chicago 60609!”
Me, too! 😊
If we’re home, we us it every New Years eve with friends and family.
Oh, and the same with the Raclette.
Bun warmer.
“And I helped!”
With a southern accent, too. Who can forget that?
I still have that pitcher, but in beige.
My parents had a weird thing going. They divorced in the late 80’s. Couldn’t be married but they could hang wallpaper together like professionals.
Some black homes had really bold colors back then, along with the JFK and Jesus picture on the wall of all black homes some would have all black and red bathrooms with black toilets or other intense choices, having a bar in the house was common for many people during the 70s.
Still available:
https://www.radarange.com/newRR.html
How about that!
That is great!
“I still have a fondue set.”
i think i might too ... somewhere in the very back of some cabinet of stuff not used a lot ...
but more importantly, i kept my old rival crock pot too, and use it all the time to cook brown rice perfectly!
a truck driver’s dream of valhalla ...
“I remember a place that the color scheme was avocado and tangerine, with a shag rug.”
when i bought my current house decades ago, the kitchen floor was covered with puke-inducing chartreuse linoleum ... it was only about the 3rd or 4th layer, with thin plywood between each layer ... used a circular saw with carbide blade to cut a one foot grid down to the subfloor and pried out 1.25” thick chunks of the layers and replaced with solid tongue and groove Australian Cyprus ...
also removed disgusting carpet that was covering solid oak floors in the bedrooms ...
and don’t even get me started on removing all of the disgusting wallpaper from the bedrooms and bathrooms ...
"helped" has a minimum of 3 syllables
Oh I love Shake N’ Bake for Pork....use it all the time. But I use Mayonaise to coat the pork before ragging thru the shake mixture....Yumm!
“That reminds me, moving furniture around in 1970 was no fun, it was heavy.”
now you just kick apart your disintegrating Ikea Krap, toss it in the bin, and buy another set ...
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