There’s NO WAY you didn’t have this in your 1970s house - Life in America
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I'm pretty sure it was the 70's, but does anybody remember the Pole Lamps? It was a pole wedged between the floor and the ceiling that had like 3 adjustable lights on them that you could point anywhere. You clicked once for the 1st lamp, twice for 2 and 3 times for all 3. We had 1 beside my dads recliner in the living room.
Yep I remember those. We had several.Thanks for reminding me of those.
Look at any ikea or wayfair ad. Surprise!
There was a black one in the movie Wayne's World that looked *exactly* like the one my parents had! And until now I didn't even know there was a name for them but learn something new everyday 😃
Yes! Lol
I remember those as well. Do you remember hassock fans? They were a fan in a stool like container that pulled air in and circulated it down off the floor. My folks got those to help cool the house without running the AC so much.
Don’t forget the smaller TV on top of the console set once the big one died!
LOL!!! absolutely right!!!
So true😂
Yea i was thinking about that - we never had enough money for the big wooden encased set 😂
@@whobeyou5342 We didn’t, either. I remember going into friend’s houses that had the portable sitting on top of the console and thought it was so funny looking!
My sweet, beautiful Mother very recently died. 🥺 I've been remembering how she always told me the seventies were her favorite decade in her lifetime. I've been watching videos such as this in order to feel connected to her somehow and the things and times that she loved dearly.
♥️
My mom just passed away too. Big hugs for you 🥰❤️
It was the best decade I lived in
Meaningful posts like yours make visiting the TH-cam comments section worthwhile 👌🤗
❤
I was born in 1979, but so much of this 70s stuff lingered into the homes of the 80s that I feel like it should count.
Yep, same. I was also born in '79 and remember a lot of this stuff was still in my house growing up, likely because my parents never really changed it out from the time when they were dating and moving around the country while my dad was in the Army.
Nope, don’t count
@@Nightweaver1
I was born in 1979 but being from the UK it's a bit different, we call it shag pile carpet for example. We didn't do the massive furniture TVs but the furniture music centres were popular, I know because I bought one from a jumble sale in the early 80s and struggled getting it home balanced on a wheelbarrow. I can confirm that a lot of the 70s stuff, especially furniture, was in use well after the 70s, it started to seem kitch in the 90s to have 70s bits and bobs in your house just not electronics which by today's standards were cluckin' awful. Some of the 70s minimalist clean lines furniture and simplified design furniture is still sought after today and can fetch high prices. I still have a few throwbacks to the 70s but mostly small things, some tribal stuff, quirky pottery and the like.
It sure does count!
Definitely. Early 80s is very 70s, just like early 70s was very 60s. It's not like on January 1 1980 everybody said "It's the 80s, everyone! Time to change styles!" :-)
I remember all of that decor back in the 70s, especially the shag carpeting, and appliances painted in Harvest Gold, Avocado, and Coppertone. I still have a couple of crocheted Afghans from that era, and they still adorn my recliner and sofa to this day. They're a memory of my mom.
Treasure them, Michael. I have only a very few mementos of my own mom's. Somehow, they just became dispersed over the years.😟
My grandmother made a lot of these in different colors and patterns and usually would give them as gifts, so a few I know in the family get them out when it gets cold.
I have crocheted Afghans from the 70's - my mom crocheted them.
@@cynthiamurphy3669 my grandmother preferred a zigzag pattern, and my brother and I both have them in our college colors.
@@kenbrown2808 I agree and do have a green-gold zig-zag one.
As far as the TV's, it's so odd that we spent so many years looking down at the tv, now many people are looking Up at them. I personally need mine at eye level when sitting on the couch. I do remember as a child sitting on the floor to watch tv. That seemed to be the best position.
wall mounted is the best,love it that way
There were 5 of us, plus my parents so someone was always on the floor. My mom had these oversized pillows for them to lay on
So did I quite often. Not always, but a lot of the time. Had a small TV of my own in my room later, so could watch from the bed ☺️
Me too- much more easy on the eyes
Absolutely, eye height, always eye height!
I was waiting for those bead doorway curtains to come on the screen. Walking through hanging strings of beads to get from your kitchen to your living room was quite an experience that someone dreamt up.
They could be beautiful. I'd been in residences that had those. Very nice privacy screens.
That was a much more artsy, craftsy era. People were really creative, and they appreciated handmade items of good quality. Ceramics were big back then, too.
I remember my parents calling a TV repairman or my dad pulling out vacuum tubes out of the big Zenith console TV and taking them to the hardware store or Radio Shack to test them in the tester. We had a wooden console "hi fi" stereo from Hudson's in Detroit. Much better times back then.
I agree!
It must not have been a new TV. My family bought a Zenith 25" TV in 1972 and it was 100% solid state. No tubes, just transistors.
I would like to go back to the 70s for a year to experience it as an adult. The concerts would be breat!!!
I also remember the glass grapes that everyone's grandparents had on the coffee table. Kind of a hold-over from the late 60's but they hung around for a while.
I forgot all about those. I dusted those as a kid. They sat on the bottom of our antique wash stand. Thank you for the memory.
I remember too! Mom still has them on her table with frilly placemats or lace doilys. Ha!
I remember department stores had entire sections dedicated to ashtrays including the large stands!
It was also the most commonly made thing in arts glass. Ugly deformed gaudy painted monstrosities that ever mom had to present they loved.
I was born in '71, so this was nostalgic. So many things I forgot about, and brought back nice memories. Thank you.
Hell yeah, December '71 here.
Same here. Born December of '67.
I miss the 70's!!!! If we could only go back to the simplicity. As a child I had not one care in the world. If only, right? A girl can dream I guess. Miss and loved this era
Hey, plenty of us guys too. Such a great time to be alive...
@@starmnsixty1209 your totally right. If girls can dream than it is only fair to say a boy can dream. Sorry, didn't mean it to be offensive or racist🤗💙💜
@@mariewoodward9713 Racist?
I was in my 20's and 30's back then. I remember so much of this. It was filled with macrame hanging planters, shag carpeting and alot of brass. It was really half the 60's and half the 70's. Much better time !
Exactly, all that was actually the late 60's and early 70's. Boy, brought back memories I haven't thought about in decades.
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Also all that burlap kind of art projects stuff that we did in school influenced a lot of this. I remember using burlap, beans, rope, tape and shoe polish in art projects some teacher got from an idea book. Tons of finger painting and then all the moon shaped knick knack shelves the older kids made in wood shop. I think it was a make something from nothing kind of décor.
The spider plants! Macrame hangers with trailing spider plants.... Everywhere!
Ditto! The only item we didn't have that you showed was the standing ashtray! Great researching there! 😀
As a teen in the 70's, I am SO thankful there were no cell phones..recording everything!
I'm glad there were no cell phones to steal our childhood. Kids today are missing out
Damn straight! These kids today don't realize how stupid they are to be shooting video of everything. I will admit I would like to have some video of a number of things from back then - just not all over the internet!
No dang way would I go out & carry a locating device!!! (or, something my folks could call me on at any time)
Amen, and double Amen!
What a time to grow up. It was honestly the best!
It was the absolute best time to be a kid...I loved those times and so glad I was a kid back then, and I Loved H.R Puffinstuff too, Witchy Poo! LOL
Some acquaintances of mine back in Georgia were robbed in a home invasion back in the 70s. No kidding, she was able to wriggle the rings off her fingers into the shag rug and they weren't noticed! Scary event but she actually managed not to lose some of her jewelry.
There's a mystery novel in here. Lost in the carpet.
@@sage9836 I was going to ask, was she able to find them, again?
I’m 60 and had all these things in my family home. Thanks for the memories!
How I miss the 70’s up to 78 anyway (Military)
I think we had all of these except the brass.if you lived anywhere in Ontario, Canada during this period, you had Blue Mountain pottery instead. We must have had a dozen pieces at least.
No shag rugs, No wood utensils , No beer signs, live plants, no ash trays, no fireplace, no bean bag chair, no brass, no macrame owl, oh yeah no lava lamp.
Only stereo furniture radio, wooden tv, we crocheted but no throw blanket on couch,
Guess we were poor. 🤔
Man this brings back so many memories of sitting in front of the TV watching Saturday morning Cartoons
I am so glad I grew up in the 70’s. Everything you showed here I had in my house. Good times~Good times.I would go back to the 70’s in a heartbeat! Thank you,
I feel the same way...I was a 70's kid too...happy days then and I too would go back in a heartbeat...
Born in 1950, I was a young adult in the seventies. And I enjoyed all of that. I was even old enough to make some of it. I did ceramics back then, and made some beautiful pieces. Mostly as gifts for family members, but I sold some, too, at arts and crafts fairs.
I recall people asking me to make them pieces as custom orders. I was always advised to get half of my costs up front as a nonrefundable deposit, in case the customer changed their mind or refused to pay for the finished order. That way, I wouldn't be completely out of what I had put into it. I was afraid that folks would get offended if I asked for cash up front, and many did. So, I didn't ask and, sure enough, I got screwed! Was stuck with a huge order of custom made ceramic planters that I couldn't even give away, despite their being lovely works of art. A lot of people were stingy back then, too. I would put them on display at crafts shows, and people would just walk by and not even look at them. Those who did wasted my valuable time asking me questions as though they were sincerely interested, then would just walk away and not buy any of them. I felt justifiably insulted! Why even open their mouths if they really didn't want anything I was selling?
So many memories and so many smiles while watching this 🙂
Same.
The scented, colored toilet paper!
We had a console TV with AM/FM stereo radio, and turntable in ONE UNIT. It weighed as much as a Chrysler New Yorker! (It was a Zenith, I don't remember the exact model).
The bigger the better, was the motto back then !!!!
THAT sounds super-cool! Am sure it's weight was as heavy as you say. Least things were still built to last then.
I couldn’t help but laugh at your comparison. But I know it’s accurate
Yeah my parents had a Zenith console stereo too!! One side opened up, lifted up, to expose a turntable, radio and 8 track tape player!! And yeah ours was as heavy as a Buick Electra and took up nearly 6 feet of wall space!! Even the console TV they had was a Zenith so two walls in our living room was pretty much "entertainment system" against them!! I remember my mother also bought an Electrolux vacuum form a door to door sales man!! It was a long skinny tube, that was blue in color, with a hose attached at one end!! At one point they had on of those "spring loaded" pole lights that had three adjustable lights on either side of it, and you'd wedge it between the floor and the ceiling and that was all that held it there too!! Ours sat in one corner of the living room, and we seldom if ever actually used it!!
Zenith - "The quality goes in before the name goes on."
What a nostalgic video!! I'm a 70s baby and I miss those times dearly. Life was so much simpler back then. People were much kinder. Times have certainly changed.
Anybody else remember Z-Brick? Our living room had black and white Z-Brick on the wall that clashed with green & blue shag carpet. Of course there was a crochet blanket draped on the couch that Mom made. I remember mirrors randomly placed on the walls of almost every house too. Good times.
Well mirrors were a way of making your interior look bigger, a useful trick when your house is filled up with all the 70s clutter. I do miss a good wood and coal fire in my living room though, nought better on a cold day especially if you're skint and like me live where free firewood is abundant if you don't mind a 10 minute walk each way.
Yeah, those smoky glass mirrors with little gold flecks on them. Thank God my parents were too poor to afford them but many of my friends had those in their houses.
Owls were a big thing in the 70's. Not just in macrame. They were on everything and ceramic owls were popular too. Mushrooms were also very popular as well as painted velvet pictures .It was good to look back and see some of the things that we had in our house.
Speaking g off owls... Anyone recall Woodsy Owl? I miss that bird! Had his comic book briefly if memory serves 🦉🦉🦉
@@starmnsixty1209 Give a Hoot ! Don't Pollute !
OMG, the mushrooms! You made me recall that I went to a ceramics class for a few years with friends and neighbor ladies once a weeknight when I was in high school in the early 70s. Almost everybody would be working on the same stuff, lol. I sure do remember the mushroom cannister sets. And the holiday ceramic stuff - I made a ton of that since everybody seemed to want a ceramic Christmas tree. My own mom was not into a lot of the 70s things that I can remember, didn't care for macrame or the velvet pictures. I think Mom kind of bypassed the 70s stuff - we had Early American maple furniture including the console stereo until she changed things to French Provencial - maybe that was going from the 60s to the 80s (?), but I'm not sure.
So we're mushrooms lol
EDIT: I should have read all the comments lol mushrooms and owls everywhere...and orange, brown and gold stripes. Platform shoes, big hoop earrings, "angel wing" bangs, lava lamps, over sized combs in the back pocket of our jeans usually with rainbows on the handles (back when rainbows were just rainbows and not a politicized flag). Remember earth shoes? I liked mine but after I wore them out, I didn't get another pair. And disco...where would I have been without it? And who remembers rainbow tape on the inside of your car? Heaven will be like the 70s, I hope...
@@FrankiesFancy How could I forget those earth shoes? Yep, just one pair for me. They weren't pretty, and I wasn't actually ever into "saving the earth." I loved the disco phase (had all of Donna Summer's albums and was more into Motown in general than rock way back then).
I was a teenager and remember all of this. I graduated in 1973, it was a great time, and I have wonderful memories 😌
My Dad was USAF engineer so our stereo was along one huge wall, completely designed and made by him. Our TV was of not so much importance as music so for a long time it was a little black and white that stood on a rolling cart.
My mother had little plants in every room. She did macrame and the hanging plants were wrapped in beautiful macrame.
We had a tv on a rolling cart too. 😂
We had a TV on the rolling cart too. Plus it had an extra shelf below the TV for moms plants and the TV guide.
Who remembers crewel embroidery?
@@jrnfw4060 I've heard of it but can't picture it in my head for the life of me.
@@faegrrrl It's embroidery done with yarn instead of spool thread, and instead of just embroidering the outlines of the subjects that were stenciled, crewel filled them in. There were special techniques for doing this. Crewel was a lot fancier than regular embroidery. I tried it once, and found the instructions difficult to understand. The diagrams they showed weren't helpful. Maybe that's why this method of embroidery fell out of favor -- too complicated and meant for those more skilled. It was also very time-consuming.
Wow, these look like the living rooms of everyone in my neighborhood when I was growing up. I wasted a lot of time sitting in rec rooms discussing the lyrics to Stairway to Heaven in rooms that looked like this.
When I was a kid I used to dream that our black and white TV had a fine tuning knob that would turn our TV into a color TV. My mom bought our first color TV console in the 70's from Sears. My dad hit the ceiling saying we can't afford that. My mom told him it was a display model and that it was reduced in price but after watching Gunsmoke, Hogan's Heroes, and He Haw in color my dad was OK with it. You really appreciate things that you didn't have when you were growing up.
We got our first color tv in 1974. I remember that Steve McGarrett’s face seemed to always be purple…. No, now it is green…. Almost got it right. Nope, now it is purple again……
We never had a color tv while I lived at home. I used to watch Miami Vice in black and white. Heavy TV on a spindly metal stand. The remote was whatever kid was sitting in the living room.
We did finally get a VCR, it had a WIRED remote.
I still remember watching my first show in color: I Dream of Jeannie. I was mesmerized by Barbara Eden’s beauty!
Back when color television sets were luxury items, there was a cheap and easy alternative to get our favorite programs in color. Does anyone remember their families putting plastic screens on their TV?
The screens were thin, transparent pieces of plastic that stuck to the TV screen. The top portion of the screen was blue for the sky, the middle had a reddish tint, and the bottom was green for grass.
Of course, the screens looked nothing like real color TV, but they did add a little bit of excitement to the gray scale that was dominant during the early years of television. Because the screens sold for only a couple dollars, they were much more affordable than buying new color sets, which went for hundreds of dollars.
So before color TV became affordable in the late '60s, who remembers their family using this device in the hopes of magically transforming black-and-white shows into color? With all the recent advancements of TV, it's hard to imagine a time we used to do this.
I had a friend their family had a dedicated T.V. room in the mid1960s; it was dark and had a color T.V.. I stayed over and watched Star-Trek in color; I was amazed.
The standing ashtrays are actually from the 1910s and 1920s. My great-grandparents had them. You overlooked the Buri fans, I had those and so did just about everyone else. The pictures of big-eyed children and animals were also a 70s thing. String "paintings" arrived in the late 1960s and many 70s home still had them.
My sister had what was called a drip painting. It was of a sailing ship in dark brown, with the thick black oil paint dripped as outline. All against an orange background. It was really beautiful.
Yes, there is a movie about the artist Margaret Keane who painted the big eyes. The movie is called "Big Eyes" it's really good! My Aunt's had her paintings/prints.
Ashtrays of the 20's and 30's were often metal and bakelite with an art deco look. The heavy wooden ones with chunky glass were the 60's and 70's.
Don't forget Hobo Clown paintings.
I still have one of those mushroom footstools in black, and the clear colored resin grapes. In orange/rust.
I love this, and so miss that era. Hubby and I were both in our twenties, and we married in 1978. Our first home as a married couple was a 70s style mobile home that had all of the colors and typical decor of that decade. We had a Harvest Gold fridge, stove and sink. Even the small countertop appliances like the electric can opener were avocado green, harvest gold and orange. This was delightful. So sorry it's gone, today.
All the 70s home decor really makes me feel homesick. One of my favorite shows is Eight is Enough. I'm exactly the same age as Nicholas (Adam Rich) and see the world just as he did during that time. Pure nostalgia, but also from a time when life was awesome for a kid with no responsibilities or real world concerns. Just me and my brother racing our Evel Knievel stunt cycles and eating lunch from my Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox.
One of my weekly chores was to rake the shag carpet - would totally do it again 😆
My sister & I had our own rooms. Were allowed to pick out our color of shag. She choose hot pink & I pale yellow
We had a rake attachment to the electric broom for the shag
ha ha .. could take a break and use the rake as a back scratcher
Shag carpeting was very popular then.
Leisure suits were still in vogue then as well. I had a power blue and peach colored leisure suits. They didn't stay in style very long.
I loved my new 1973 Ford Pinto Hatchback with 4 speed stick shift.
70's were a great time to live.
I had a Ford Pinto as well. Weren't you just waiting for a rear end explosion?!
@@karynroeseler2652 I was not aware of the danger at the time. I used to put full gasoline containers in the rear on Sundays when gas was illegal to be sold that day so I could go out of town for the day to bowling tournaments. Love that car.
We had two Pintos when we were first married, and both of them were crap. They had automatic transmissions, but by 1980 I had learned to drive a stick shift and bought a sporty little high geared Chevy Monza. Had a lot of fun driving that, until a drunken driver creamed it while I was at work!
@@jrnfw4060 My best friend bought a 1973 Chevy Vega with 3 speed manual transmission. I liked my Pinto better with a 4 speed transmission. I would grind out 2nd gear to 60 mph before going to 3rd.
I remember when we got our new console tv. I thought we were rich lol. Saturday morning cartoons were watched while laying in front of it. Ahhh the memories. Oh and let’s not forget the rabbit ear antennas. I can’t say I loved those. Antennas on every roof too.
As a child who grew up in the 70s this is wonderful I miss it the best decade ever! Better than today!
I was a kid…I remember macrame, fork and spoon wall decor, oil lamps, wood panels and my mothers 3’s company-Jannett hair and high stack boots.
I'm hip!! I remember all that groovy stuff, man! It was outta sight!!
Cool man!!
I remember my dad installing the paneling in our house. They actually sold nails that matched the color of your paneling so that they would blend in. The only things we didn’t have were the ash trays (no one smoked) and the big wooden TV. We couldn’t afford the fancy TV, so we had that small B&W on the rolling cart for quite a long time. We could only get 4 stations on it consistently, plus a couple more if the weather was right. Messing with those rabbit ears!
With tin foil flags at the top of the antenna to ‘improve’ reception.
I was in high school in the early 1970s. This video reminded me so much of growing up!
Thank you for bringing back all the good memories. 😊
I made a macrame pot holder when I was in cub scouts. My mom still has it.
When I was a kid I remember having these big wooden floor model TV's, and when something went wrong with it, you didn't throw them away and buy a new one like people do today - you took it to a repair man. I remember helping my dad load ours in the car and taking it to the TV repair guy in town and wondering around his TV repair shop seeing all of the electronics and parts all over the place. Simple things like that were such a treat when I was a kid.
This is so correct! We had all that.
Or, the TV repairman who would come to your house and fix it there. The ones who actually showed up when they said they would! And did the job right the FIRST TIME! Boy, is THAT a rarity, now!
I personally loved the large console TVs. nice looking furniture with space on top for decor items.
I really liked growing up in the 1970s. The memories are so comforting as I get up in age. We had the maggotbox entertainment console. That's what my dad called it because it was always breaking down and needing the TV repairman. The remote was huge, had like 8 buttons and the TV made a mechanical noise when the channels changed. Miss my folks so much, that life is gone now.
At least you had a remote control for the TV!
In our house, I was the remote control for my dad.
I also was the "antenna rotator"!
Our antenna was outside on a tall pipe/tower.
Whenever you changed TV channels, you would then have to go outside and manually rotate the antenna pole until the picture signal came in the best.
And living on the farm, we got 3 channels.😁
We had a huge TV console and what a pain in the ass to move it when it had to go to the TV repair shop. Remember TV tube testers at the grocery store?
Other than the carpet, the way houses looked in the 70’s is EVERYTHING to me. I was born in 1980, so not exactly nostalgia but also not admiring an old trend as a young person. I just love the earthy tones, the greens and oranges, all the dark wood and plants.
I grew up poor, so my family still had all these things in their homes in the 80s! This brings back great memories for me. I loved the earth tones mixed with brights, and the brown, gold, and green glass ashtrays and lamps. My mom’s side were old hippies anyway. They didn’t do the 80s. Ioved all the new 80s colors when I was a kid, but now I’m into the 70s again! The only thing I don’t miss is the dark, depressing paneling on walls, and I have those right now in an old house that hasn’t been remodeled. 😂. But at least I’m doing what I love ❤️. That’s more important than money. Those 70s colors look better on me than the fuchsia, teal, neons, and big graphics of the 80s. There was a time in the early 80s that gets forgotten, with pastels and feminine styles. I love that! 💗
I just saw that you like the dark paneling. No offense ! I love all the rest!
I remember back in the 70s, it was popular to have these greenish-gold plastic inserts in kitchen doors and room dividers. They always had the same circular pattern. If you watch an old episode of I Dream Of Jeannie, the Nelson's kitchen door leading to the living room had that inserted.
Yes! We had those! Our were a deep, avocado green with the circles.
@@faeriesmak Exactly! I remember in the apartment my family rented, we had them in a room divider between the kitchen and the living room. It was a big plastic panel with all of these circular inserts. They must have been mass produced because I saw them everywhere.
I know what you’re talking about. About 30 years ago my parents bought a place that hadn’t been updated from the 70’s. Pine kitchen cabinets & the corner one had that gold circle pattern insert.
My hat off for digging up a version of the brass flower petals ashtray! When my mom redecorated the living room in the late 70s she had two different brass lamps and one of them was a total match to this accent when I saw it in the Spiegel Catalog and ordered it for her as a gift! Haha!
The Spiegel Catalog! Omg, I remember that!
@@bracita15 I loved that catalog. I still use my drapes ordered from there in the early 90s.
@@cathyt502 Wow! That’s how good the quality was 🙂 I also miss that big, fat Sears Catalog!
So spot on. You totally nailed it! 👍🏻 Yes those oversized wood fork and spoon wall decorations! Another awesome vid from RR. Thank you!
Was just watching Everybody Loves Raymond & his parents have a set in the kitchen.
My grandma and grandpa had the ceramic ones. Same size scale though. lol
I just saw one of those at the Goodwill last week.
@@samanthab1923 That was my first thought LOL especially the episode where Marie takes them down and you can see the outline of them on the wall 🤣🤣🤣
My uncle had one of those cabinet stereos. It even had a bar!
A lot of the things you are talking about were actually more prevalent in the late 50s and all through the 60s, than in the 70s. I remember a lot of this stuff from all through my childhood, and I turned 20 in 1974. Some of it stuck around through parts of the 70s, which might be why you didn't know that they were even more common earlier.
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
The bean bag chair! Popped one of those open, small styrofoam beads EVERYWHERE! 🫣
You had to take a running leap onto them. My grandma would yell at us when we did the run and flop. Good times!
I could use a few of those today. Too many grandchildren and not enough seats. They probably still sell them.
@@mountainman4859 they do
I busted my sisters by jumping on it. Boy, did I get yelled at. Lol
Really bad if you had shag carpet.
As a teenager during the 70s, I can testify that it was indeed the Wood Age :) Our front room was refurnished in the mid-70s and had (thankfully) flat carpet replacing the wrecked Armstrong linoleum that my dad laid down when we moved in the house back in 1965, and a heavy color TV replacing the 19" black and white TV (you had to use your imagination when the NBC Peacock came up back then). We also got ugly wood paneling in the front room, and a massive stereo; even though it was stereo and had a record player and AM/FM radio, my mom exclusively used the 8-track player, clunks and all....when she was laying down and I swept the front room, I'd listen to an 8-track she got me (KISS: Destroyer) and crank it up while cleaning...good times :)
But there's one other item you often saw back then in the front room...a terrarium. Often a ball-shaped thing on a pedestal, you'd fill up the bottom half with dirt and plant greenery inside, and then place the see-through top part on it. Just looked like something Austin Powers would make a comment on. Really enjoying these little trips back!
Terrariums were popular. My mom had a terrarium made from a rectangular fish tank. Thanks for remembering those.
And once the terrarium was watered, you never had to water it again!
I was helping my granddad build a house once and the owners picked out this nice wood paneling with a big knothole on it. After hanging this room full of paneling we looked back and immediately knew, "this is wrong!" Every 4ft there was that knothole about eye level all around the room. IT WAS UGLY!
I hope he just went over the old stuff. That asbestos was used in linoleum til halfway through the 1980s. I got Armstrong to admit to it via email.
Even tho we're known exactly what it did since the late 1800s, early 1900s.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 They probably did. When my dad put the Armstrong down in 1965, it was just over shabby-looking wood flooring that eventually wore through the linoleum. I have a picture that was taken probably 1967 that showed the wear was already occurring just 2 years after it was installed. By the time we had the house redone my dad had died the previous year, and some "friends" of my mom's from church "helped" her out with the refurbishing. I didn't see them take the old stuff off the floor (I would have been 13 by then).
We had almost all of these. 😅 The owl, the giant wooden stereo to play record with storage to put them in - you know The Beatles, Olivia Newton John, Peter Paul and Mary, The Monkeys, the Carpenters; the wooden tv with flowers painted on it, wooden fork and spoon, brass stuff, everything was brown, paneling. My dad wanted red shag carpet downstairs. It was kind of our playroom with a tennis table, the stereo, wood burning stove, small workout trampoline, toys, and our bedrooms. Everyone had a playroom basement where the kids could do WHATEVER we wanted - back when parents never watched their kids. ❤️🤟🏻
We had one of those wooden stereos. Ours came with a record player, radio and a 8 track in it. It a deep storage bin in it to keep our record and 8 tracks in. My grandparents brought it back to Tennessee when they moved from Michigan. I have all of the records from them. I loved listening to the music.
Back when kids had some REAL freedom!
@@shannonbales9148 That was before they started digitally remastering everything and ruining a lot of those older songs. The digitally remastered versions of a lot of them just don't sound the same.
I'm still a freshman in high school so I obviously never got to experience any of these decades, but I really want to decorate my home or apartment like this once I graduate! I already have plants all over my room lol
Facebook marketplace is full of this stuff. I'm decorating mine like the 30's since I live in a really old house
..Surprisingly, the narrator of this video failed to mention 'Pit Groups' & Waterbeds. That's a major omission! 😎👍☕
@@lilblackduc7312 waterbeds we’re popular in my area in 80s- 90s
Do yourself a favor and take a pass on the shag carpeting. It's a super pain to try to clean. You can't vacuum it with a regular carpet roller vac or it'll pull the pile out.
@@LauraS1 I’ve got a large shag rug which I love. I vacuum it with a stick vac and it comes up great. I do lose things in it sometimes like an earring though!
You nailed it! It was like I was back there again.
Ah, yes, I can still smell the lemon pledge my Mom used to shine up the console. She was proud and fussy about it and the decor on top of it. lol We had shag carpet and the carpet rake, the gold swivel chairs, the ashtray with the horse head, and a lot of weird ornate cigarette lighters and matching ash trays. My parents had card parties. I do miss the cool 70's lighting fixtures.
the cigarette lighter made to look as if it were a muzzle-loading pistol. heavy as hell, wood and shiny shiny brass.
Yes, the lemon pledge!! I remember this! I can still smell it! Lol! 😂😂😂
What we lacked in decor and aesthetics in the 70's we more than made up for with MUSIC.
The 70s are my favorite decor style. My aunt had this life size collie dog porcelain statue. It seemed so odd even for back then lol but it matched her mocha and burnt orange livingroom.
The obligatory coffee table that had no purpose other than bruise your shins as you pumped into the sharp corners.
We had spider plants and African violets. I made several macrame planter holders which were admired.
Our stereo had converted to 8 track in the early 1970s.
Agree shag shag everywhere. And I had the job of vacuuming.
Those bruises are why I told my husband years ago no coffee tables!
Yep we had the big spoon and fork on the wall above the kitchen table. I'd hit my head on them whenever I leaned back at mealtimes. From my place at said table I had the perfect view of our big Sears console color television which sat in our pine paneled den. When I would get up on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons I'd wrap up in the crocheted afghan that my grandmother had made for my mom one Christmas. She made my sister and I one as a bedspread.
Console TV was a spendy thing and I would wager far more people had TV's on stands ( remember those). Also, still a lot of B&W TV's around still. To really capture the early 70's is to go to the store to get a tube to fix it. Remember the Tube tester machines in Dept Stores.
We never had the huge console TV. My mom wasn’t a TV watcher. She preferred reading and didn’t like the TV in the living room. We had a 19” on a stand in the den. I remember only “rich” people having the huge furniture TVs.
Or the actual TV repairman!
One only has to walk bare foot on a shag carpet once, to realize it's one of the greatest inventions ever known.
Especially after swimming. Probably horribly unsanitary, but we didn't care then.
Until somebody dropped something sharp into the shag that you couldn't see -- whatever the color of the carpet was, it soon turned to blood red!
Shag carpet was very difficult to vacuum, especially the deeper stuff. I worked as a motel maid for an establishment that had it in every room I had to clean. We maids were saddled with those heavy old Kirby uprights that didn't work very well to begin with -- and were useless on deep shag.
In one of those rooms, some kid had crumbled up uncooked spaghetti into pieces of all sizes, including powder. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up the larger pieces because the vac wouldn't suck them up. The powdery and smaller pieces got ingrained deep into the threads and were a real pita to try to vacuum up. It took so much time that I was late getting my other rooms done, thanks to the thoughtless parents who allowed their kid to leave that mess when they checked out! I like to believe that somewhere along the line, karma had its say about that.
Unless you had a little brother that lost a Jack in the carpeting!🤬✖️
One of the things I remember from the 70s is the lamps. They may have got their start earlier, but tension pole lamps and hanging lamps seem to be in their heyday back then. Many living rooms had pole lamps that were wedged between the shag carpeting and the ceiling. They usually had four cone-shaped lights that could be adjust to shine light on any part of the room. Many of the lights had wooden handles that could be turned to turn the individual light on and off. Hanging lamps were usually found over the kitchen table. Those lamps hung from the ceiling from a brass colored chain that went from the lamp, to a hook in the ceiling, to another hook closer to the wall, and then the chain dropping to the floor. The power cord that went from the light to the outlet was woven between the chain links. There was nothing minimalistic about the 70s. Every appliance and fixture was designed to compete for your attention.
I thought of the tention poll lamps too.
Your comment is accurate and well written. These things were exactly as you say and it is surprising the '70's lighting wasn't showcased.
Yeah I remember those lamps, I think every family member in my family had one of those tension pole lights with three or four lights on it, and you could position them around and turn each light on individually from each other!! My Grandparents on my mom's side, had a "Super 8" movie camera and movie projector too!! The movies would play in a loop, and the projector came with a copy of Yogi Bear!! The projector, nor the camera had sound, so the Yogi Bear movie had "placard subtitles" that you had to read as they flashed on the screen! I also forgot to say my mother took up knitting and crochet and she made like 30 hand made Afghans!! I know we had like six of them in the house!! My one aunt had also made a bunch of those toilet paper holders that sat on the back of the toilet, which had a doll head and body and her "dress" had a roll of toilet paper under it!!
My other aunt took up "Poofs" which was these Styrofoam shapes that you wrapped these oddly shaped pipe cleaners around to create panda bears, or spiders or any number of animals too!!
Speaking of lamps. We had a classic 70's rain lamp.
@@mikentx57 I had completely forgotten about those. I think they used mineral oil, or something similar. They were cool.
I still have the afghan my grandmother made for me for my 10th birthday in 1978. One thing you didn't mention though was the stereo cabinet usually had a place to hold a few of your favorite LPs. If you were wealthy, your stereo may have come with an 8-track player as well. Another good job here.
We were "gifted" (more like my Aunt wanted to be rid of it) an enormous console in faux Louis de Something style with "antique gold" finish that had a TV, Stereo, 8-Track and Cassette and practically took up an entire wall in the family room. My grandmother actually made special lace doilies for it - mostly to hide the hideous color - which I still have along with this groovy multicolored zig/zag afghan she whipped off while glued to the TV set watching Password, Match Game, Price is Right and, of course, Dark Shadows. God, do I miss her...
We have about a dozen afghans that my grandmother crocheted.
@@mikentx57 Not just decorative, afghans kept you warm on a winters night while watching television.
Born in 73 and had the green shag carpet, wooden Tv and bright yellow linoleum kitchen floor. Also every room had unique wallpaper designs. Including the bathrooms!
3:57. We had that very couch. Mom was so proud of it bc it was a Broyhill brand. Had the matching chair. Mom called it “The Paradise Chair.”
I love this channel, especially anything from the 70’s, I just watch and smile and think about a simpler time in life, thank you
I remember the Curtis Mathis television cabinet that had a record player in it to
ferns were popular, as well as large fans on the wall. mom took an old milk can, painted it black, put some bi-centennial decals on it, and in the inside went tall willow reeds (i guess that what you'd call them) that came in various colors. sometimes you find one of those oil-string things, where a sculpture would be surrounded by nylon strings that dripped oil beads down them.
I remenber that hanging plants in macrame holders were in almost every house, either crotchet or natural jute string braided with big rustic beads in them...spider plants were popular...Also many folks had Terrariums in big glass bottles.
In many homes where catholic families lived, there was always two living rooms (the casual family room and the never used formal living room. In the formal living room, the couch and chairs where sealed in plastic. Also, there was usually a doll with a crotchet dress that covered the extra toilet paper in the bathroom lol
I think you just described Marie's home in "Everybody Loves Raymond."
I remember the doll holding the spare TP. It was always a Spanish flamenco dancer!
What does catholic have to do with it...I remember many homes like that but NOT catholic
And the vinyl runners covering the most used portions of the carpet. You described my folks' house exactly except they thought the toilet paper doll was tacky.
The "formal" living room where you weren't aloud to play. Parents would yell at you if you even walked through there. Such a big, wasted, useless space that was roped off to everyone except the rare guest your mom felt the need to impress. Our furniture wasn't covered but NO ONE was permitted to sit on anything in there. This was not a thing in just big, expensive homes mind you. Even very modest houses (if you had parents of a certain age) insisted on limiting everyone from 25% of the house for no reasonable purpose. Does this still go on?
I remember all of this
And don’t forget the velvet framed paintings by “Juan”, my mother was driving thru western Ny and all of us were on board she saw one of these roadside vendors with 50 paintings stacked everywhere and couldn’t stop fast enough, well one went home on that trip, desert south west scene, with an abandoned covered wagon on red velvet, hand carved wood frame dark finish, four feet long and I think it’s in the Smithsonian somewhere!
Remember the common framed wall art/craft that consisted of brass wires stretched tight between pins giving the shape say, of a sailboat?
Born in '79 and really missed out. I'm an old soul fascinated with the 70's and wish I could go back in time to experience it. Just simpler, more pleasant times. And the music coming out then was the best!!
No you did not, shag was gross even then, only the hold over 60s cars were cool. Smog was awful in ANY big city. The bicentennial was cool.
@@faeriesmak Yeah, so a select amount of men were drafted in the early 70's, therefore the whole decade sucked. Brilliant logic there buddy.
@@bindingcurve Do you remember the Bicentennial minutes? They ran in prime time every night.. A historical vignette bit of revolutionary history, hosted by someone that starred in a TV series. I thought those were cool.
@@faeriesmak Wrong, skippy. In June 1969 Nixon announced the withdrawal of 25,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam.. In September he announced further troop withdrawals, and by March 1970 he was announcing the phased withdrawal of 150,000 troops over the next year. A hitch in the service would probably do your attitude some good, though...🤡 🤪 😜 🤪 😁 😂 🤣
If your parents bought a house the year you were born the interest rate on the mortgage was probably over 17%. We remember the good stuff.
i remember alot of these.. the cool thing with the shag rug is could rub socked feet on it and touch someone and no joke you and they get a powerful shock that made a snap sound... actually could hurt lol
Im only 37, but I recollect many of these items. It brings back so many memories that I can actually remember smells from some of these shots. Lol
Between my parents and grandparents, we had every one of these. Well done!
You're right! All this stuff was common in the 1970's home, but I was also expecting to see the ever-present swag lamp.
And the cheapo-looking fake stained glass hanging lamps!
I was a teenager in the 70 and remember all of them thanks for the good memories I love your videos
Omg, yes. I was a teen. Remember it all. The spoons, shiny floral wall paper, old beer accents, Mediterranean furniture and so on.
Remember Kitchen Witches, Merry Mushroom kitchen canister sets and macrame and glass tables that hung from the ceiling? And those glass wind chimes from China that tinkled? And silk lanterns. Black light posters. I had a black and white Op art bedspread and matching poster. And a bead curtain in my doorway. Groovy!
My first crochet lesson involved learning to make the granny squares. I spent the weekend with my aunt who lived to crochet. I was about 10.
The only brass I had was Tijuana Brass records.
My parents favs! The Taste of Honey
@@samanthab1923 What Now My Love
How about Al Hirt's "Java"? Loved that melody!
wow, i had forgotten, my grandparents had those standing ashtrays . i made plant hangers out of macrame, what a wonderful time ,more family oriented than today.
Some of these were definitely the "Haves" décor. I can remember the candy dish/ashtray depending on whether or not my parents were having company. My Mom is short so we never had one of those tall plant stands. The macrame owl we had creeped me out. One day I slammed the door too hard, it fell down and while we were out playing, the cat got at the owl.
Do you think they went on an adventure in a little green pea boat?
@@susancook3353 No, I think I deliberately rubbed catnip all over the owl when my brother wasn't looking, made sure that when the door slammed the owl would fall and kept my brother outside long enough for the cat to destroy the owl.
@@AlbertaRose94 Sneaky! I like it!
@@AlbertaRose94 What happened to that kitty?
@@jrnfw4060 Nothing. It was an accident.
I’d forgotten about the shag rake. It seems silly now but we had to rake at least once a week. In the early 60’s my dad bought a “hi-fi” stereo Silvertone console from Sears. A BEAUTIFUL piano finish solid maple wood. We had several TV’s also in nice genuine solid wood cabinets. The video really captured that time.
LOL!!! we had EVERY one of those items in various houses in the '70s and a bit into the '80s - my mother to this DAY still has her owl !!
Part 2 needs candy dishes with those awful mints, clear plastic carpet runners for halls and stairs, crocheted toilet seat covers, vinyl padded toilet seats that lasted maybe a month or two before cracking and then scraping your bum lol, carnival glass, Tupperware EVERYTHING, Avon for the ladies, After Shaves for the guys, and 8mm home movies 😁
My mother must have crocheted literally thousands of those granny square comforters. How many people today have a mom that can knit socks for the whole family? She could crank out one sock every twenty minutes all day long. If I could time travel, 1976 would be my first stop. I turned 18 that year and left home at warp 10. That's what young people did when they turned 18 back then. Living with mom, after reaching adulthood, was properly seen as a bad thing. It still is.
My mom did too - and I still have one or two of those blankets to this day.
That was my Nan with the throw blankets. After retiring they moved to their beach house full time. I think it hit her hard. Lonely out there in the winter. She had 20 grandchildren & after the first year everyone got one for the end of their beds. My sis & I also got ponchos!
@@samanthab1923 I still wear ponchos. Love them, and don't care what anyone thinks about it.
@@jrnfw4060 I saw a cashmere one recently that I would die for. Very warm & chic.
Man I miss sunken family and living rooms
I still have my grandparents glass ash tray stand. They have been gone for 40 years but I cant give way in throwing it away!!
Who says you have to throw away the bits and pieces of your past that make you smile....I still have 2 pieces my dad made in shop class in the 20s-30s. He never made it past the 8th grade and I am proud of him.
The furniture of the 70s was just plain BEAUTIFUL! All of that ornate wood was very aesthetically pleasing. It was an era where beauty and color was appreciated. Not so much, today, sadly.
My parents had this huge oil lamp hanging from the ceiling on a chain in our front window. Fond memories of this decade as a child. Life and times were great back then.
Wow, that brought back my elementary school days. I remember the shag carpet was easily trampled down in the area with the most use. Also, at school and summer camp in arts and crafts, they always had us make ashtrays because it was so common that our parents would be a smoker. Mine did not smoke, but I made the art piece anyway. I was never good at macrame but I also remember that candles in the shape of animals were popular and I made lots of those at summer camp. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Back then, contact lenses were not disposable and not cheap. One time my sister lost a contact lens in her shag carpet. What a HUGE hassle! I did eventually find it. It was like a needle in a haystack. Needless to say, I never liked shag carpeting.
I found one of my contacts stuck to the tile on the wall next to the sink where I was putting them in my eyes using the mirror. That was late 1970’s. Don’t know how you’d ever find one lost in a shag carpet!
The shag carpet was the mortal enemy of contact lenses. The early contacts were made out of glass.
It was my allergic nightmare, growing up in the 80s. We were poor, so we always had it in our old rentals!
We got our giant console TV in the late 80's. Parents room got the old 19 inch. Was a total game changer
Befor my nana passed away she had how like what you described here. With her house having orange shag and a big stone fireplace in one room and it was just vintage over all. Looked like a log cabin from the outside as well. Not around back then but I kinda got to experience it by going to her house.😅