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https://youtu.be/0g4zXepHASM I remember nearly all of these things.  Big Al
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Oh wow!!! Yep, I remember all that stuff too!
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That video was great! Thanks for posting it, Big Al. I especially loved the teak chair near the beginning... Whenever I watch the current crop of HGTV shows and see this:  I'm thinking, "Just wait. Down the road a few years, your decor will elicit the same reaction this one does now": 
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
I agree WTG, those kinds of bold patterns are much more likely to not age well. There's a couple who flips houses around here and some how I ended up on their FB feed, so I always look at the photos they share, and they use those black and white patterns in bathrooms a lot. I'm not a fan.
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I remember them too. The 70’s style is one best forgotten. But as far as the houses and the rooms, I don’t remember anyone having a house that looked like those. Model homes did, but regular houses might have had low shag carpet and chrome/glass but those wild patterns never really caught on with our crowd. Bakers racks and macrame, sure - but not the wild geometrics. We were more of a herculon flame stitch mindset, surrounded by what were considered “Earth tones”. But Angels Flight pants and Members Only? Yeah, we rocked that look.
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
There’s a whole book about that. [URL=Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s]Interior Desecrations[/URL]
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How did they find all those pictures of my mom’s house?
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Partway through that video, they are talking about wood paneling and brick walls and there is a photo that made me rewind (ok, that’s a 70’s term) because it’s not from the 70’s. It’s got all the right furniture, except for the flat screen TV in the corner.
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Should have been a console TV with a built in stereo. The kind with the huge built in bass speakers that would dance the Hummers right out of the fruitwood china cabinet. 
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
Oopsies!
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
OK, true confessions time. I realize that there are a lot of fans (here and in the real world LOL) of "mid-century modern" architecture. Not my cup of tea at all. Basically, to me mid-century modern are these houses with new carpet and interior wall paint. That said, I recognized a lot of those things. I don't recall having a big console TV, but my grandmother definitely did. We had one of the linoleum designs in our kitchen. We had no shag until I went to college, where it was absolutely required (of course in burnt orange) in apparently every single student apartment off-campus on the entire west coast. The other thing it brought to mind was the situation where your biggest effort in terms of weight, size, space was moving your stereo system. Huge heavy records that had to be stored upright, delicate multiple components to the stereo, massive speakers. For me, my "sound system" and records took up more room than almost all of my other stuff until I was an adult and owned actual furniture. I suspect that was true for a lot of us of a 'certain age.' It's still true for kluurs!  Amazing to think that my kids music is now in the cloud, they stream it to their TV/sound bar or something like a Sonos type bluetooth speaker, all of which could be carried easily in a pocket and one hand. That was a fun watch! | |||
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Whatever happened to all of the bakers racks? They were everywhere and indestructible but I haven’t seen one in years.
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity |
The stainless steel ones? I confess we just got one for storage.  I also inherited my brother-in-law’s fancy audio components, so now I need component shelving. I don’t understand the whole streaming thing yet. Yes, I’m a dinosaur.
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Bakers racks were always black painted steel, IIRC. Get a Bluetooth dongle and install it on the vintage components Put the YouTube app, along with the Amazon music and iTunes app on your phone. It really is a game changer. Thousands of pieces of music a couple of clicks away. I always smile when I hear people talking about going back to tube type amplifiers and vinyl because of the nice warm sound. The nice warm sound is actually distortion and the new digital and streaming stuff sounds so much more natural. You will have to decide which one you prefer.
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