Posted on 05/19/2024 9:00:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Well, you can’t have that, but if you’re an American citizen you are entitled to:
a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven—don’t watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym—I’ll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
a kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree,
a year’s supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
and Bob Dylan’s new unlisted phone number,
a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick,
Rosemary’s baby,
a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,
a new Matador,
a new mastadon,
a Maverick,
a Mustang,
a Montego,
a Merc Montclair,
a Mark IV,
a meteor,
a Mercedes,
an MG,
or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty,
a Maserati,
a Mac truck,
a Mazda,
a new Monza,
or a moped,
a Winnebago—Hell, a herd of Winnebago’s we’re giving ‘em away,
or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby’s arm holding an apple?
Last summer we drove 700 miles to my mother in law’s house with the intention of removing 40 year old brown and orange shag carpet from the basement. It covered the entire basement. We returned at Christmas to recover the floor with laminated vinyl. It looks far better.
You can’t imagine the decades of dust and decayed carpet/padding.
I still have:
4 crockpots—from 1 1/2 quart to 14 quart—1 LIVES on counter
Jugs-—3 of different sizes
OAK TABLE & 6 chairs-—WOULD NOT GET RID OF..Center of activities
Cookbooks-—best ones come from church ladies raising funds.
ELECTRIC knife-—PLUS many others
Electric can opener—a Christmas gift about 1970
MR COFFEE
ALSO CAST IRON PANS
Hand mixer
Meat grinder
TURKEY roasters
ETC
Pyrex bowls—2 series of 3 plus bread baking Pyrex
You could get your oil checked, windshields cleaned and tires aired up @ the service stations too....
Lava lamp
Blacklight posters
Far out man
“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 nailed up pallet loads of that crap when i was a young carpenter ... horrible stuff ... but at the time, folks thought it was “elegant” ....
however, it does look quite nice if painted after the fact, esp. with a light color ...
I’ll swap the Montego with the Cordoba.
Taco Bell started as Bell’s Hamburgers, which was the first el cheapo hamburger stand in our city ... i think they were 10¢ in the early 70’s ... as kids, we could hardly believe there was such a thing as 10¢ hamburgers ... we use to ride out one-speed bikes (up hill both ways) to buy sacks of ‘em ...
My kitchen is filled with Corelle bowls of every size ... the stuff is nearly indestructible ...
“My brother and I used to buy potassium nitrate and sulphur at the local TG&Y. Dad had charcoal at home. Boy those were good times”
indeed ... the trick to making good homemade black powder was to grind the mix as fine as possible ... i even built a homemade grinder with two steel rollers powered by an electric motor ... good times indeed!
One thing you’d find in a 1970’s kitchen is an entire family sitting at the table eating dinner at 5:30pm.
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