High flush tank toilets. We had them in our Victorian home. And I miss the 6 foot cast iron claw foot bath tub. It held the heat in so I could soak forever in the tub before the water turned cold.
Why have you chosen to speak so oddly now? When you first started doing your own voiceover work starting with "saddle up at Roy Rogers" on April 4, 2021 you speak absolutely differently than you do now. You sound robotic, to the point it sounds AI now, and I cannot understand why you'd have chosen this inflection you are utilizing now. I like your content, but it's to the point I cannot listen to you speak, because it doesn't sound human, as in a normal conversation you'd be having with me, or anyone else, standing in front of you. Please go have a listen to your older work, and you might notice what's changed.
@@dbeaumontresident847 You're right, I hadn't noticed, but if you listen to, for instance, the Chef Boy-ar-dee video, the phrasing was a lot more natural sounding. Great information nonetheless!
@@gulfgypsy No, how he speaks today, is not in any way shape or form the same as he spoke in the video I have mentioned in my prior comment. If you watch the video I stated, and still come back saying it's consistent, I cannot help you hear what you cannot hear. But no, his voice inflection and diction are not the same at all. And seeing as I have another person agreeing with me, again, I cannot help you hear what you can't hear.
Well, scoot over in the old fashioned club because I'm going to have to join you. Those glass blocks are wonderful. I can't imagine why they'd go out of style. Only thing I can think of that might be a drawback is the weight.
I remember in St. Elmo's Fire, Leslie and Alec (Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson) had a loft with those glass blocks separating spaces and making rooms. I was 15 when the movie came out and I said, "someday I will have a place like that, with glass blocks!"
These are still available! The problem is that they are expensive to build with. The blocks are heavy, so the floor has to be able to hold the weight and it takes a skilled artisan to put them in correctly, which also costs quite a bit as the work is somewhat of a dying art in the DIY age. Sad, they are exquisite to look at!
Who could forget the pink, green, and blue colored toilet paper that used to be sold to match the decor of the bathrooms of the same color? While I don't exactly miss it per se, it was definitely a fun novelty to add.
Some are nightmares. Some are sublime perfection. I tend to treasure the old things, too. Living with a sister who DOES NOT treasure the old things. Soon to escape to my own 4 walls full of old and not so old and fairly new but all comfortable and inviting.
I envy the sheer design and character of older homes.. I often get the thoughts of restoring a old delapidated home to it's mint, original condition, retrofitting modern things such as wifi, tech, HVAC, etc into it, but keeping that original 1900's asthetic to it with the seamless intergration of modern technologies.
My grandparent's house had pink tile that went up half the wall with black tile trim, and the floor had small square of both pink and black. I loved that bathroom, with matching toilet!
my old 50's house had 2 knobs for the tub. one hot, one cold, pink tile with a black trim. Soap and Toothbrush holder mounted in the wall above a pink sink.
I remember those things. Cupie (sp?) doll faces. Total opposite of elegance. I was gifted an orange TP cover (no face) that went with my orange bathroom. That bright orange bathroom surprised a lot of people. I LOVED it! Gotta do something in a neutral rental to give it some personality. Subdued colors? Not in my house! Well, maybe my bedroom but the child's room was primary colors and denim. The heavy-weight denim bedspread I made him as a toddler lasted well into adulthood. His friends thought it was the coolest thing ever. I just wanted something that could take a lot of punishment and washings and still hold up. I finally made a skirt out of it.
I'm 48, and our childhood house had rubber sink stoppers. Many houses today still have them. They should be attached by a chain, but somehow, they never stayed that way.🙄
Funny our house is from the 1950’s and we have restored most of it. We have 4 bathrooms with all original tile, sinks, fixtures, and tubs. My kitchen had purple carpet in it but it had to go. I only WISH we had a claw foot tub! I found some really old vintage wallpaper under three layers of wallpaper, I wish I could’ve kept it, it was like comics. I love your channel!❤
I think, at great expense, you can have modern wallpaper designed with those vintage patterns. I know you can have wallpaper custom printed but trying to find the exact design of the old paper might be going down a very deep rabbit hole. But, who knows, it could be a fun rabbit hole.
I remember as a kid the dentist we used had glass blocks as his storefront. I thought it was cool to watch cars go by and change shapes as they moved past the glass blocks. Kinda like the trick mirrors at the circus midway.
The house I grew up in was brand new in 1964. Mom refused to have any carpet things in any bathroom, except bathroom rugs. The neighbors had carpeted bathrooms and the carpet was often…crunchy. You missed wall mounted toothbrush holders that held 6 toothbrushes and you hoped you grabbed the right one.
@@minxella12The bath carpeting was also washable. It was rubber-backed, same as bathroom rugs except you cut it to fit the whole floor. It maybe didn't get washed as often, though, because unless your bathroom was very small, the carpet would need a trip to the laundromat for the jumbo washing machine.
I really enjoy RR videos. Some of it is nostalgic, and for me, some of it's a cool look back in time! Thanks for taking the time to make these great videos!
I miss the Sears catalog that you could browse through, while doing your business in the wooden outhouse. Scrolling on the phone just isn't the same thing.
@@glennso47 I searched for it. I found it. I listened to it. And I enjoyed it! I heard a live solo version... but I prefer the toe-tapping original with the cool backing choir. It even mentions the Sears catalog. Thanks for the recommendation.
We had one in a $100 a month rental in the 70s. Too young to realize the treasure we were scrubbin' our carcasses in. Rent was so low because the land could be sold and house torn down with very little notice. Ok with three just out of h s girls.
In the late 60's when I was born, my dad's parents house had a half bath on the ground floor that was blue (everything was blue) The family bath on the second floor was green, (everything was green). Everyone it seemed, had fully carpeted bathrooms, in the different shades of the times.
My parents built our first house in 1955. It was a small 2 bedroom, 1 bath. The bathroom had pink/black tiles around the tub. No shower. Our next house had white bath/kitchen fixtures and appliances. Our next door neighbors had pink appliances in their kitchen and fixtures in the bathroom. A friend of mine had teal blue appliances in their kitchen. I had never seen kitchen appliances those colors before. We had carpeting in our kitchen/dinette and hallways in the 70’s.
About ten years ago, I replaced the plain white electric stove/oven in my kitchen with a 1955 GE “Liberator” electric range, resplendent in turquoise green. I’ve never regretted it.
I had a little house built in 1940 that had black and white tile with black and white penny tiles on the floor. There were two art deco sconces on each side of the mirror.
Your title says Never Seen Again... come to my bathroom lol. I live in a bldng about 100y's old. I have the pink tiles in my bathroom and tub/all. And a checkered grey mini tile floor! Yes that old but amazingly still in okay condition. I used to have no sink vanity, so glad when I got one. It works for me, a great window, it's all good. I had the toilet paper knitted doll as decoration. I remember those tank top decorations. But what I miss is the colored toilet paper! Pink, Yellow, Light Blue, Mint Green! Colored TP was stylin! 😄
I wouldn't either! I grew up in a beautiful old home from that same era. Uncle Nathan built it. I wish so hard I could clone that kitchen I remember so well. One of my big sisters snagged the cabinet door with our heights marked on it.
My wife and I bought our first and only house in 1996, the house was built in 1963, it was in great shape, however, it hadn’t been updated much. The hall bathroom had a pink toilet, pink double sinks in a Formica countertop, pink tub and tile around the tub. This bathroom got updated to an all natural color, however we still have the pink tub, the plan was to refinish it, now we are at the point of a total remodel of this bathroom. The master bathroom was blue, it was gutted and redone in white when we first moved in. Great video, love seeing the old forgotten items I grew up with.
I lived in an apartment for a while when I was in college and we had to wear shoes to the bathroom for a few weeks because of the leaky toilet in the carpeted bathroom.
i have penny tile in my 1920s bathroom, white with a random black tile. Sometimes, when I stare at it for a few minutes, and there's a piece of dust or something on the tile, it will appear to be moving. More than once I've thought it was a bug. I've had plenty of claw foot tubs during my life and they are the nicest to bathe in. Alas, now that I'm too old and creaky to climb in and out, I must resort to showers.
I don't know _why_ we don't have colored toilet paper any more. That seemed like such a natural way to blend with your bathroom decor. In the '70, my parents and grandparents _always_ had colored toilet paper.
I remember one Halloween when the kids TP'd the trees with colored TP. Later, my mom was called to the small house we rented out to remove a large paper wasp nest (easily 12" long). It was mostly grey with colorful strips of blue, green, and pink swirled in.
I had an apartment that had carpet in the bathroom. There were some strange looking things growing out of it due to the moisture in there over the years, so I pulled it out even though I was just a renter. There was nice tile underneath. The management didn't mind that I did that.
I live in an old building that has plumbing from around the 1960s, so I'm familiar with a couple of things mentioned. The sink is a wall mount with two individual faucets! The fixtures in the tub shower are old Price Pfister kinds with hot, cold and the lever above them to switch from shower to running tub water!
2:43 My parents house had one of those "garden tubs," and I though it was a NUTS waste of space. Mom raised puppies, and the puppies loved that tub, so many places to climb and play. (still, not me though)
I remember the pink sink, toilet, and tub at Gma Petersons. But what I remember most were the crocheted doll TP roll covers & the crocheted tissue box covers. You DID miss the colored TP from back then. Gma Peterson had pink TP, but Gma Brain had blue. I remember there was also green TP, but it didn't match anyone's bathroom.
There was yellow, also. So it came in four different pastel colors. And it was sold only in four-roll packs, not the mammoth packs we see today. 1960's people would have found those hilarious and outrageous!
I had an original Florentine glass window in the bathroom of my old apartment that had been converted from a school building in 1929. You needed it to keep neighbors from seeing you on the toilet.
That is so cool. Wish I had that. I tiled my bathroom in tiles that LOOK vintage….but i just love the real vintage. Enjoy that beautiful bathroom!!!!!!
@@jchow5966 That’s so fun on what you did with your bathroom. My bathroom too needs to be remodeled, and I think when we do remodel it, the tub will be laid to rest 🪦, even though I told my husband that I wanted to keep the tub forever 😂.
We moved into our home in 1993, second owners, home built in 1958. The original owners had indoor/outdoor carpet in the half-bath, with a pink toilet bowl and black seat. We quickly changed to more contemporary fixtures and got rid of the carpet. Nothing traps moisture and unpleasant smells like carpet in the bathroom.
We bought a 1955 farm house that still has the original bathroom. Blue and white swirled counter top with a sink the shape of a sea shell. Still looks good and everything works. Plus way to tired to try and replace remodel now.
5:45 As a user of single blade razors, I *_*WISH*_* I had a blade slot in the bathroom! So practical! I think I mean "double edge" razor blades. Formerly known as "safety blades."
3:11 my 2013 fleetwood singlewide home has a garden tub in the master bathroom. It came standard, it's fiberglass and has a built in surround but it's a very pleasant, nice design and the house just looks good in general. my gransparents home, a site built 3 bed 2 bath colonial style brick home was built in 1998. That home has a even larger seperate garden tub with under-tub storage AND EVEN JETS!!! the jets are amazing I love them.
I loved the clothes wringer (or mangle) positioned proudly at the end of the bathtub (2:55)! I presume this was the householder's idea of interior decoration. BTW, who on earth thought crochet lavatory roll covers were (a) hygienic and (b) more aesthetically pleasing than a roll of pure white tissue?
I kept waiting for you to show the heaters built into the wall. They were fantastic to turn on when you got into the bath during the cold weather months. We bought a house a few years back that had one. The only way it would pass the inspection was to have it disconnected, which left me a little sad. That's what we used in my house growing up.
Charm, elegance and luxurious are not the words that come to mind when I think back on ours that,had.the exact colors shown here... in fact, I thought I was having a PTSD flashback watching this. 😮
@@josephgaviota Right, that stuff never did anything for me I had better luck with Benadryl capsules with hot shower followed by a cold rinse. Poison Ivy never sleeps.
Someone else may have covered this, but you showed lots of examples of ceramic tile on walls in different colors, as well as built-in soap dishes, towel bar and toilet paper holder mountings, etc. A major portion of the design aesthetic of a bathroom was the ceramic tile walls, often with contrasting colors for borders as well as replacing what would normally have been a wooden baseboard.
Loved the video! Great memories. I remember some friends houses having the carpeted bathroom floor. Bad idea for sure. 😂 I remember my dad having a tall skinny hardback pink book in the bathroom from I think the in the 1960’s called “Jokes For The John”.
My grandmother's house where we lived even when my grandmother migrated to the U.S decades ago had a bedroom with an en suite with pink oval sink pedestal and matching pink toilet while the other en suite bathroom had a large green rectangular sink with matching toilet.
Some years ago I remodeled my Sis-in-law's CARPETED bathroom in a home she'd just bought,. It was BEYOND disgusting! Carpet SOAKED with pee and spilled water over YEARS DESTROYED the subfloor, even rotted the FLOOR BEAMS!
I remember when we bought our house and the previous occupants had a carpet in the bathroom. The floors were so rotted that once the toilet tipped over because of the damage to the floor.
@@jasonrodgers9063 I remember back in the 1990's I lived in South Dakota and rented an apartment. It had carpet in the bathroom. One day I picked something up off the floor and saw some kind of fuzzy worm / caterpillar in the carpet. Yuck.
We had a 1950s house that had a metal laundry hamper built into the wall. (similar to a built-in medicine cabinet) Just drop the dirty clothes in and swing the door open when it was time to empty it & wash clothes. Was actually pretty convenient! Newer homes don't favor medicine cabinets. I miss them for all the tiny bottles. I know you can still buy them to hang, but I have no adequate space on my wall.
When I last shopped for a house, I so wanted to find an unmolested 1960s build with a pink or blue bathroom. No such luck. My last house was built in 1963 but had seen a lot of changes. Prior to selling I tried to get it back to a 60s look. I tore up the cheap linoleum in the bathroom to reveal the original floor tiles. They were not the penny tiles you showed, but really small squares. I also installed a pedestal sink.
I used to work for a plant that made sinks, tubs, toilets, etc. They shut down in CA almost thirty years ago. But in their warehouse they had tons of old product from the fifties. Apparently the plant was around back in the 1930s. How I wish I could lay my hands on those things now.
My employer is trying to sell her parent's house. Built in 1965, the hall bathroom had green and pink tiles as they had two boys and two girls! Today, she's had several people say they won't even make an offer because of those tiles so she's having to put newer colors in and de-tile four walls at great expense! I remember my friend's carpeted bathroom. It was wonderful to have carpet when you were headed to and from the bath but getting the mildew smell out of the bathroom took some work! I miss the beautiful glass windows that you mentioned. They could make a bathroom a very comfortable place to spend time in. Most of all, I miss the wall-to-wall bathroom cabinets of the 1960s and 70s that had a space for all your towels, as well as the rest of your things, right at your fingertips, as well as a port for a vanity chair so you could sit and dry your hair or do your makeup. It also made a great hiding spot for playing hide-and-seek when you were a kid!
The house I grew up in was built in the 50s - pretty sure the main bathroom had pink tile, sink, toilet and bathtub. My parents had that bathroom remodeled in the 80s to replace everything - the new tile, sink, toilet and tub were all a light shade of brown.
We had a regular bath tub and it was green tile around the bath tub and those rugs around at the tub and around the comode and on the bowl and top. And a half bath in Daddy and Momma's bathroom and it was pink and no tile just painted pink. Two medicine cabinets and no hole for the razors.and a light above them both. I miss our bathrooms! And a counter in the green bathroom with green sink and in the pink bathroom just the sink with the pipes showing and pink rug set in there too. I miss the good old days and want to go back!
My first place was a house divided into 4 apartments. I got the original kitchen, dining (was my living room), bedroom and bathroom. It had a clawfoot tub that I could lay down in without bending my knees. I am 6'5" tall so the tub was a dream to sit in and soak.
What other bathroom features do you miss seeing?
High flush tank toilets. We had them in our Victorian home. And I miss the 6 foot cast iron claw foot bath tub. It held the heat in so I could soak forever in the tub before the water turned cold.
Why have you chosen to speak so oddly now? When you first started doing your own voiceover work starting with "saddle up at Roy Rogers" on April 4, 2021 you speak absolutely differently than you do now. You sound robotic, to the point it sounds AI now, and I cannot understand why you'd have chosen this inflection you are utilizing now. I like your content, but it's to the point I cannot listen to you speak, because it doesn't sound human, as in a normal conversation you'd be having with me, or anyone else, standing in front of you. Please go have a listen to your older work, and you might notice what's changed.
@@dbeaumontresident847 I disagree.
Just went back and listened to a few older videos and his voice, inflection and diction are all consistent.
@@dbeaumontresident847 You're right, I hadn't noticed, but if you listen to, for instance, the Chef Boy-ar-dee video, the phrasing was a lot more natural sounding. Great information nonetheless!
@@gulfgypsy No, how he speaks today, is not in any way shape or form the same as he spoke in the video I have mentioned in my prior comment. If you watch the video I stated, and still come back saying it's consistent, I cannot help you hear what you cannot hear. But no, his voice inflection and diction are not the same at all. And seeing as I have another person agreeing with me, again, I cannot help you hear what you can't hear.
1:23 Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I _LOVE_ the glass blocks ! Lets light in but still "obscures" vision. What's not to like?
Well, scoot over in the old fashioned club because I'm going to have to join you. Those glass blocks are wonderful. I can't imagine why they'd go out of style. Only thing I can think of that might be a drawback is the weight.
Blocks totally awesome I remember and the flouritine glass
I remember in St. Elmo's Fire, Leslie and Alec (Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson) had a loft with those glass blocks separating spaces and making rooms. I was 15 when the movie came out and I said, "someday I will have a place like that, with glass blocks!"
These are still available! The problem is that they are expensive to build with. The blocks are heavy, so the floor has to be able to hold the weight and it takes a skilled artisan to put them in correctly, which also costs quite a bit as the work is somewhat of a dying art in the DIY age. Sad, they are exquisite to look at!
I love the glass blocks, too. I recall there was a short revival of their use in the 80s.
Who could forget the pink, green, and blue colored toilet paper that used to be sold to match the decor of the bathrooms of the same color? While I don't exactly miss it per se, it was definitely a fun novelty to add.
I remember a brand that was white with pink flowers with green leaves or stems for awhile.
I think Northern bathroom tissue was colored and / or had white with colored flowers. So pretty!
We had a sink., toilet, and tub, that were grey. The walls were pink. I loved it. Now everything is grey/ white. It's so dull!
And fun to make flowers with.
Oh wow, I'd forgotten about those. 😊
I love these retro videos, because I'm old enough to remember. Reminiscence is bitter-sweet. We want to go back, but we can't.
Love my midcentury modern gray and pink bathroom! Never updating it!
Ditto! ❤
Scored!
Some are nightmares. Some are sublime perfection. I tend to treasure the old things, too. Living with a sister who DOES NOT treasure the old things. Soon to escape to my own 4 walls full of old and not so old and fairly new but all comfortable and inviting.
I envy the sheer design and character of older homes.. I often get the thoughts of restoring a old delapidated home to it's mint, original condition, retrofitting modern things such as wifi, tech, HVAC, etc into it, but keeping that original 1900's asthetic to it with the seamless intergration of modern technologies.
My parents' old house, circa late 1940's to early 1950's was gray and pink
The downstairs bathroom at the old family home was pink and black and the upstairs bathroom was green and yellow. Oh, those were the days! 😊
I bet they were pretty!
They were. And the old family home. I miss it!
My grandparent's house had pink tile that went up half the wall with black tile trim, and the floor had small square of both pink and black. I loved that bathroom, with matching toilet!
@lisalynnmarie2448 that sounds exactly like my bathroom. Pink tile, black trim tile and the little pink and black square floor tiles!☺️
Are you a Hart?
Personally, I like a classic-looking bathroom like the ones shown. I'd be tempted to redo an entire bathroom like this.
The pink tub and wall tile looks like you took the photo in my late parent's bathroom!
Love your videos. You are keeping alive memories of our past.
I always enjoy your videos, going back to memory lane 💕 so nostalgic!!! Thank you!!😊
Loved this sweet look back, thank you!!
Whenever I see a pink or green bathroom, I think of my grandparent's house. 😊❤️
My grandparents had this awesome black and green bathroom. I can still see the tiles.
my old 50's house had 2 knobs for the tub. one hot, one cold, pink tile with a black trim. Soap and Toothbrush holder mounted in the wall above a pink sink.
In addition to the crochet doll toilet paper cover, we had crocheted hand towel rings, complete with a babies face looking at you.
I remember those things. Cupie (sp?) doll faces. Total opposite of elegance. I was gifted an orange TP cover (no face) that went with my orange bathroom. That bright orange bathroom surprised a lot of people. I LOVED it! Gotta do something in a neutral rental to give it some personality. Subdued colors? Not in my house! Well, maybe my bedroom but the child's room was primary colors and denim. The heavy-weight denim bedspread I made him as a toddler lasted well into adulthood. His friends thought it was the coolest thing ever. I just wanted something that could take a lot of punishment and washings and still hold up. I finally made a skirt out of it.
Yes. My grandmother made those for all her family and friends. Every Christmas 😊
0:24 I remember those rubber stoppers. My grandma had those in her house, I believe built in the early 1900s.
I'm 48, and our childhood house had rubber sink stoppers. Many houses today still have them. They should be attached by a chain, but somehow, they never stayed that way.🙄
I have one now. Built in 71
8:48 Sconces adjacent to the bathroom mirror ... seems like a GREAT idea. I want them!
As an electrician, I can tell you that design never really left and we're putting in more and more of them. Looks cool too.
@@RonSch123 👍
A chuck of my childhood right here
Funny our house is from the 1950’s and we have restored most of it. We have 4 bathrooms with all original tile, sinks, fixtures, and tubs. My kitchen had purple carpet in it but it had to go. I only WISH we had a claw foot tub! I found some really old vintage wallpaper under three layers of wallpaper, I wish I could’ve kept it, it was like comics. I love your channel!❤
I think, at great expense, you can have modern wallpaper designed with those vintage patterns. I know you can have wallpaper custom printed but trying to find the exact design of the old paper might be going down a very deep rabbit hole. But, who knows, it could be a fun rabbit hole.
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Back then, my family only used pink toilet paper because I found it quite fun and preferred it over the white ones we have now.
I remember as a kid the dentist we used had glass blocks as his storefront. I thought it was cool to watch cars go by and change shapes as they moved past the glass blocks. Kinda like the trick mirrors at the circus midway.
The house I grew up in was brand new in 1964. Mom refused to have any carpet things in any bathroom, except bathroom rugs. The neighbors had carpeted bathrooms and the carpet was often…crunchy.
You missed wall mounted toothbrush holders that held 6 toothbrushes and you hoped you grabbed the right one.
Or the wall Mount soap dish.
I don't blame your mom, carpeting in the bathroom and kitchen is nasty. Rugs you can throw in the wash.
@@minxella12The bath carpeting was also washable. It was rubber-backed, same as bathroom rugs except you cut it to fit the whole floor. It maybe didn't get washed as often, though, because unless your bathroom was very small, the carpet would need a trip to the laundromat for the jumbo washing machine.
@@Lunafalls It wasn't that way in an apartment that I rented years ago, that stuff was installed and it was gross.
I remember the wall-mounted Dixie cup dispensers, too!
I really enjoy RR videos. Some of it is nostalgic, and for me, some of it's a cool look back in time! Thanks for taking the time to make these great videos!
I miss the Sears catalog that you could browse through, while doing your business in the wooden outhouse.
Scrolling on the phone just isn't the same thing.
Ode to The Little Brown Shack Outback by Billy Edd Wheeler. A funny song that you should hear elsewhere on UA-cam. 😂
@@glennso47
I searched for it.
I found it.
I listened to it.
And I enjoyed it!
I heard a live solo version...
but I prefer the toe-tapping original with the cool backing choir.
It even mentions the Sears catalog.
Thanks for the recommendation.
i kind of miss the old claw foot tub we had as a kid lol.
They were bigger and held more water than modern tubs.
They were comfy, but kind of homely.
We had one in a $100 a month rental in the 70s. Too young to realize the treasure we were scrubbin' our carcasses in. Rent was so low because the land could be sold and house torn down with very little notice. Ok with three just out of h s girls.
Our Bathroom tiles, sink and Tub were pink. And our house was built in 1949 and we moved in when I was a small kid in 1960.
In the late 60's when I was born, my dad's parents house had a half bath on the ground floor that was blue (everything was blue)
The family bath on the second floor was green, (everything was green). Everyone it seemed, had fully carpeted bathrooms, in the different shades of the times.
Blue ours was blue tile to the ceiling. I miss the separate hot & cold taps in the bathrooms.
Why would you miss those? They meant you had to wash your hands in either hot or cold water, never warm! 😑
My house I grew up in had that Florentine glass in the bathroom window. Still had it when I sold the house 10 years ago.
I grew up in a house with a bathroom like the yellow colors at the end, and all tile walls and floors. Those were the days of character in decorating.
My parents built our first house in 1955. It was a small 2 bedroom, 1 bath. The bathroom had pink/black tiles around the tub. No shower. Our next house had white bath/kitchen fixtures and appliances. Our next door neighbors had pink appliances in their kitchen and fixtures in the bathroom. A friend of mine had teal blue appliances in their kitchen. I had never seen kitchen appliances those colors before. We had carpeting in our kitchen/dinette and hallways in the 70’s.
About ten years ago, I replaced the plain white electric stove/oven in my kitchen with a 1955 GE “Liberator” electric range, resplendent in turquoise green. I’ve never regretted it.
I had a little house built in 1940 that had black and white tile with black and white penny tiles on the floor. There were two art deco sconces on each side of the mirror.
I love those black and white penny tiles.
You’re still alive?
@@tedlahm5740 The house was built in 1940, not me.
@@incog99skd11 A little house “that was built”: Hahaha
Your title says Never Seen Again... come to my bathroom lol. I live in a bldng about 100y's old. I have the pink tiles in my bathroom and tub/all. And a checkered grey mini tile floor! Yes that old but amazingly still in okay condition. I used to have no sink vanity, so glad when I got one. It works for me, a great window, it's all good.
I had the toilet paper knitted doll as decoration. I remember those tank top decorations. But what I miss is the colored toilet paper! Pink, Yellow, Light Blue, Mint Green! Colored TP was stylin! 😄
A great collection of vintage bathrooms, thanks!
my house was built in 1890...my kitchen sink is lg, dbl and pink! I wouldn't change it for anything
I wouldn't either! I grew up in a beautiful old home from that same era. Uncle Nathan built it. I wish so hard I could clone that kitchen I remember so well. One of my big sisters snagged the cabinet door with our heights marked on it.
My wife and I bought our first and only house in 1996, the house was built in 1963, it was in great shape, however, it hadn’t been updated much. The hall bathroom had a pink toilet, pink double sinks in a Formica countertop, pink tub and tile around the tub. This bathroom got updated to an all natural color, however we still have the pink tub, the plan was to refinish it, now we are at the point of a total remodel of this bathroom. The master bathroom was blue, it was gutted and redone in white when we first moved in. Great video, love seeing the old forgotten items I grew up with.
God forbid that you might offend anybody with pretty colors.
Bland neutral safe dull white is now required everywhere.
We’ve built our own home now and we have a huge walk in shower and used a half wall of those glass blocks. It’s gorgeous !
Love the carpet. Specially when wet around the toilet 😅
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Aim to please no mess 👍
I lived in an apartment for a while when I was in college and we had to wear shoes to the bathroom for a few weeks because of the leaky toilet in the carpeted bathroom.
I bought a 1952 house that was mid century modern. It had black and green tile in the bathroom.
I love a claw foot tub and penny tiles.My Grandma had a decorative skirt around her pedestal sink.
Go to south St. Louis.. you’ll see plenty of blue, pink, green, and peach bathrooms…
What neighborhood, specifically, please (?) It would have to be after 1945, I guess . . .
i have penny tile in my 1920s bathroom, white with a random black tile. Sometimes, when I stare at it for a few minutes, and there's a piece of dust or something on the tile, it will appear to be moving. More than once I've thought it was a bug. I've had plenty of claw foot tubs during my life and they are the nicest to bathe in. Alas, now that I'm too old and creaky to climb in and out, I must resort to showers.
Penny tiles is better for not slipping
One thing you forgot to mention is the noisy exhaust fans that were in MCM bathrooms, especially the brand Emerson/Pryne.
I want my pastel colored and
scented toilet paper back!! 😭🧻❤ Lol!
Me too!✌️
I had totally forgotten that existed until recently
I don't know _why_ we don't have colored toilet paper any more. That seemed like such a natural way to blend with your bathroom decor.
In the '70, my parents and grandparents _always_ had colored toilet paper.
@@josephgaviota it’s not around anymore because the dyes used in them were found to be irritating for us females down there.
I remember one Halloween when the kids TP'd the trees with colored TP. Later, my mom was called to the small house we rented out to remove a large paper wasp nest (easily 12" long). It was mostly grey with colorful strips of blue, green, and pink swirled in.
I had an apartment that had carpet in the bathroom. There were some strange looking things growing out of it due to the moisture in there over the years, so I pulled it out even though I was just a renter. There was nice tile underneath. The management didn't mind that I did that.
I live in an old building that has plumbing from around the 1960s, so I'm familiar with a couple of things mentioned. The sink is a wall mount with two individual faucets! The fixtures in the tub shower are old Price Pfister kinds with hot, cold and the lever above them to switch from shower to running tub water!
2:43 My parents house had one of those "garden tubs," and I though it was a NUTS waste of space.
Mom raised puppies, and the puppies loved that tub, so many places to climb and play.
(still, not me though)
0:44 Yep, my Aunt and Uncle's bathroom was pink tile with matching fixtures, ours was green. A childhood friend's was blue...
I remember the pink sink, toilet, and tub at Gma Petersons. But what I remember most were the crocheted doll TP roll covers & the crocheted tissue box covers. You DID miss the colored TP from back then. Gma Peterson had pink TP, but Gma Brain had blue. I remember there was also green TP, but it didn't match anyone's bathroom.
And there was patterned paper too especially at Christmas. Dad used to complain it looked like wrapping paper! LOL
There was yellow, also. So it came in four different pastel colors. And it was sold only in four-roll packs, not the mammoth packs we see today. 1960's people would have found those hilarious and outrageous!
Many of the bathroom features shown here were in my childhood home…then I realized I’M MID-CENTURY! 😂
I Remember
I had an original Florentine glass window in the bathroom of my old apartment that had been converted from a school building in 1929. You needed it to keep neighbors from seeing you on the toilet.
I live in a 1950’s home, and it still has the blue bathtub and wall tile that was installed when the house was first built😊.
That is so cool. Wish I had that. I tiled my bathroom in tiles that LOOK vintage….but i just love the real vintage. Enjoy that beautiful bathroom!!!!!!
@@jchow5966 That’s so fun on what you did with your bathroom. My bathroom too needs to be remodeled, and I think when we do remodel it, the tub will be laid to rest 🪦, even though I told my husband that I wanted to keep the tub forever 😂.
First time I have seen the penny tile. I've seen the square mini tile floors.
There are also hexagonal tiles
We had a pink bath tub, toilet and sink in our 50’s Orange County California home lol
Fullerton?
We moved into our home in 1993, second owners, home built in 1958. The original owners had indoor/outdoor carpet in the half-bath, with a pink toilet bowl and black seat. We quickly changed to more contemporary fixtures and got rid of the carpet. Nothing traps moisture and unpleasant smells like carpet in the bathroom.
We lived in an apartment where the bathroom had a tank near the ceiling with a pull chain to flush the toilet. 😂
Thank you so much for this video ,,, ❤❤👍👍❤❤👌👌❤❤
My brothers house had vintage vertical fluorescent sconces with some kind of odd spring loaded tubes. I had never seen them before.
Tooth brush tray holder tiled into the wall.
One thing I would add to the list is the built-in toothbrush holders. I live in a 1955 house and it has one. Modern toothbrushes are too thick to fit.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I LOVE BATHROOMS SO MUCH!!!!
We bought a 1955 farm house that still has the original bathroom. Blue and white swirled counter top with a sink the shape of a sea shell.
Still looks good and everything works.
Plus way to tired to try and replace remodel now.
5:45 As a user of single blade razors, I *_*WISH*_* I had a blade slot in the bathroom! So practical!
I think I mean "double edge" razor blades. Formerly known as "safety blades."
Consider making a correctly sized slot..lol.
I still have avocado green sinks and a ceiling heater by the shower that turns on by a light switch. 😊
avocado green refrigerator, 1971. still running.
My grandmother had a clawfoot bathtub.
This Blast from the Past made me LAUGH and feel happy!
"an eye for beauty" ??? Lol👍✌️
My bedroom was upstairs and I had a half bath in the hall. The commode and sink were blue with pink walls. I loved it.
You forgot the high mounted toilet tank. with the flush chain
3:11 my 2013 fleetwood singlewide home has a garden tub in the master bathroom. It came standard, it's fiberglass and has a built in surround but it's a very pleasant, nice design and the house just looks good in general.
my gransparents home, a site built 3 bed 2 bath colonial style brick home was built in 1998. That home has a even larger seperate garden tub with under-tub storage AND EVEN JETS!!! the jets are amazing I love them.
The first home Mon and Dad bought had carpet in the bathroom. First reno was ripping out. Mom could smell the mold.
My Grandparents had a Flourentine glass window on the bathroom door. my grandfather built his own house from a Montgomery Wards kit in 1930.
i love this!
Thank you.
6:20 I've had carpeted bathrooms ... they're _not_ a good idea. They can get wet, and they can stink. TILE is the only way to go in a bathroom (IMHO).
You only have to imagine what happens to the carpet around the toilet if there are males in the house. 😬🤢
Tile is cold.
So you (I) put down throw rugs.
@@keithfaulkner6319 The beauty of a throw rug is, if it gets funky, you can wash it.
@@josephgaviota yup.
I loved the clothes wringer (or mangle) positioned proudly at the end of the bathtub (2:55)! I presume this was the householder's idea of interior decoration. BTW, who on earth thought crochet lavatory roll covers were (a) hygienic and (b) more aesthetically pleasing than a roll of pure white tissue?
Awesome video. I remember everything in the video 👍❤
Our 1930 bungalow has a pink tiled bathroom with large tub and a laundry shoot.
This was fun. 😊
I have the crocheted tissue and toilet paper holders.
Turquoise blue
I kept waiting for you to show the heaters built into the wall. They were fantastic to turn on when you got into the bath during the cold weather months. We bought a house a few years back that had one. The only way it would pass the inspection was to have it disconnected, which left me a little sad. That's what we used in my house growing up.
my apartment still has a pedistal sink, (and my grandma had carpet in her bathrooom as a kid)
Charm, elegance and luxurious are not the words that come to mind when I think back on ours that,had.the exact colors shown here... in fact, I thought I was having a PTSD flashback watching this. 😮
Love it!!!!! 💟☮️
Awesome video and great memories as always
Right, that bathroom tub tile looks like calamine lotion pink.
😂
Poison Ivy ... you're gonna need an ocean, of calamine lotion ...
@@josephgaviota Right, that stuff never did anything for me I had better luck with Benadryl capsules with hot shower followed by a cold rinse. Poison Ivy never sleeps.
I remember having to fidget with the different knobs in the bathtub getting the right temperature for the water until I had it down to a science.
Someone else may have covered this, but you showed lots of examples of ceramic tile on walls in different colors, as well as built-in soap dishes, towel bar and toilet paper holder mountings, etc. A major portion of the design aesthetic of a bathroom was the ceramic tile walls, often with contrasting colors for borders as well as replacing what would normally have been a wooden baseboard.
Loved the video! Great memories. I remember some friends houses having the carpeted bathroom floor. Bad idea for sure. 😂
I remember my dad having a tall skinny hardback pink book in the bathroom from I think the in the 1960’s called “Jokes For The John”.
My grandmother's house where we lived even when my grandmother migrated to the U.S decades ago had a bedroom with an en suite with pink oval sink pedestal and matching pink toilet while the other en suite bathroom had a large green rectangular sink with matching toilet.
Yeah the razor slots
Some years ago I remodeled my Sis-in-law's CARPETED bathroom in a home she'd just bought,. It was BEYOND disgusting! Carpet SOAKED with pee and spilled water over YEARS DESTROYED the subfloor, even rotted the FLOOR BEAMS!
I guarantee you there was more than pee and spilled water in that carpet. Feces, puke, blood.
@@atlantic_love I've been TRYING to FORGET, dammit! !!!
I remember when we bought our house and the previous occupants had a carpet in the bathroom. The floors were so rotted that once the toilet tipped over because of the damage to the floor.
@@jasonrodgers9063 I remember back in the 1990's I lived in South Dakota and rented an apartment. It had carpet in the bathroom. One day I picked something up off the floor and saw some kind of fuzzy worm / caterpillar in the carpet. Yuck.
We had a 1950s house that had a metal laundry hamper built into the wall. (similar to a built-in medicine cabinet) Just drop the dirty clothes in and swing the door open when it was time to empty it & wash clothes. Was actually pretty convenient! Newer homes don't favor medicine cabinets. I miss them for all the tiny bottles. I know you can still buy them to hang, but I have no adequate space on my wall.
When I last shopped for a house, I so wanted to find an unmolested 1960s build with a pink or blue bathroom. No such luck.
My last house was built in 1963 but had seen a lot of changes. Prior to selling I tried to get it back to a 60s look. I tore up the cheap linoleum in the bathroom to reveal the original floor tiles. They were not the penny tiles you showed, but really small squares. I also installed a pedestal sink.
I used to work for a plant that made sinks, tubs, toilets, etc. They shut down in CA almost thirty years ago. But in their warehouse they had tons of old product from the fifties. Apparently the plant was around back in the 1930s. How I wish I could lay my hands on those things now.
My employer is trying to sell her parent's house. Built in 1965, the hall bathroom had green and pink tiles as they had two boys and two girls! Today, she's had several people say they won't even make an offer because of those tiles so she's having to put newer colors in and de-tile four walls at great expense! I remember my friend's carpeted bathroom. It was wonderful to have carpet when you were headed to and from the bath but getting the mildew smell out of the bathroom took some work! I miss the beautiful glass windows that you mentioned. They could make a bathroom a very comfortable place to spend time in. Most of all, I miss the wall-to-wall bathroom cabinets of the 1960s and 70s that had a space for all your towels, as well as the rest of your things, right at your fingertips, as well as a port for a vanity chair so you could sit and dry your hair or do your makeup. It also made a great hiding spot for playing hide-and-seek when you were a kid!
The house I grew up in was built in the 50s - pretty sure the main bathroom had pink tile, sink, toilet and bathtub. My parents had that bathroom remodeled in the 80s to replace everything - the new tile, sink, toilet and tub were all a light shade of brown.
We had a regular bath tub and it was green tile around the bath tub and those rugs around at the tub and around the comode and on the bowl and top. And a half bath in Daddy and Momma's bathroom and it was pink and no tile just painted pink. Two medicine cabinets and no hole for the razors.and a light above them both. I miss our bathrooms! And a counter in the green bathroom with green sink and in the pink bathroom just the sink with the pipes showing and pink rug set in there too. I miss the good old days and want to go back!
My first place was a house divided into 4 apartments. I got the original kitchen, dining (was my living room), bedroom and bathroom. It had a clawfoot tub that I could lay down in without bending my knees. I am 6'5" tall so the tub was a dream to sit in and soak.