1970s USA - Forgotten Home Décor of the 70s

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  • Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
  • Join me for a trip back in time to remember how we lived back in the 1970s!
    By the 1970s, suburban expansion had subdivisions moved further out onto former farmland and natural areas, far from the downtown cores. These neighborhoods were no longer bound by the street grid of the city, and new subdivisions were drawn up with curving streets, large lots, as well as bigger and more unique home designs.
    The expansion into larger and more natural spaces, coincided perfectly with the overall trends in American society.
    The 1970s saw a shift towards more organic, comfortable, and personalized interior spaces. This reflected the changing cultural landscape from the forward-looking attitude of the 1960s to a more reflective and individualistic approach in the 1970s.
    Homes in the 1970s were designed to be sanctuaries of comfort, offering a retreat from the outside world. This desire for comfort was manifested in plush furnishings, warm colors, and personalized decor.
    Join me as we explore some of the 1970s trends when it came to homes and decorating!
    #1970s #nostalgia #lifeinamerica
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  • @jetg2059
    @jetg2059 2 місяці тому +447

    I remember everyone having a giant wooden spoon and folk in the kitchen

  • @SMtWalkerS
    @SMtWalkerS 2 місяці тому +130

    My first apartment (I was SO proud!) had bright orange shag carpeting, space age white plastic table and chairs, and a pink and neon green couch. I had macramé plant hangers and a macramé owl hanging on the wall. I was really WITH it! Had my parents over for dinner - first apartment, first real job, independent. I felt like I was flying! Good memories.

    • @Therealtruthsocial
      @Therealtruthsocial Місяць тому +5

      I remember it so well. You probably had your bell bottoms on and either platform shoes or earth shoes!🤣🤣

    • @SMtWalkerS
      @SMtWalkerS Місяць тому +9

      @@Therealtruthsocial Yes, I did! Bell bottoms and platforms! And so slender and in-shape. Yes, those were the days.

    • @sharoncrawford7192
      @sharoncrawford7192 Місяць тому

      Whoa!

    • @sharoncrawford7192
      @sharoncrawford7192 Місяць тому +5

      I weighed a 100 pounds at 5 ft 2 in. Now at 67 I'm 180 pounds. What happened!?😢

    • @gidget8717
      @gidget8717 Місяць тому +4

      ​@@sharoncrawford7192life sharon, life. It happened to us all. 🤣👵🏻

  • @Therealtruthsocial
    @Therealtruthsocial Місяць тому +178

    I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s funny to hear this young guy describing things I grew up with in the same way my teachers talked about pioneer settlers.🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @judydenver5362
      @judydenver5362 Місяць тому +3

      🤣

    • @FGN666
      @FGN666 Місяць тому +2

      🍌

    • @k.g.1259
      @k.g.1259 Місяць тому +2

      Ditto !! 🤣👍

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +4

      Right? How about them calling stuff from the 80’s vintage?

    • @bobblowhard8823
      @bobblowhard8823 Місяць тому +9

      @@samanthab1923 Actually, they're calling stuff from the 90's and 2000's vintage. Go figure.

  • @Gamesso1slO0l
    @Gamesso1slO0l 2 місяці тому +140

    conversation pits are still cool as hell

    • @BwInNewJersey
      @BwInNewJersey Місяць тому +5

      Right? Its on my list

    • @traceysimmons4913
      @traceysimmons4913 Місяць тому +2

      Oh they are but I am clumsy I would fall or trip lol

    • @anthonybelyea1964
      @anthonybelyea1964 Місяць тому +6

      ​@@traceysimmons4913that's called natural selection as my son says👍🏼😎🇨🇦

    • @leslielutz6140
      @leslielutz6140 Місяць тому +5

      They are the ultimate cool. If you could drunk navigate one you became famous.

    • @judydenver5362
      @judydenver5362 Місяць тому +4

      I LOVE those!!!!!

  • @mwbillups
    @mwbillups 2 місяці тому +249

    Those console furniture Hi-Fi stereo systems were really a product of the 50s and 60s. The 1970s ushered in the component systems. I remember it well.

    • @heru-deshet359
      @heru-deshet359 2 місяці тому +23

      Yes, but since they had cost so much initially and still worked well, many people hung onto them, including my parents, lol.

    • @mwbillups
      @mwbillups 2 місяці тому +9

      @@heru-deshet359 No question about them still being around in the 70s but your commentary said the component systems did not come along until the 80s.😉

    • @steves9905
      @steves9905 2 місяці тому +6

      yes, i had my first Pioneer receiver in the mid 70's, as I vividly recall listening to Pink Floyd album Wish You Were Here on headphones plugged into that receiver after it came out in 75. components were so much cooler than grandpa's lowfi console i had inherited.

    • @mwbillups
      @mwbillups 2 місяці тому +9

      @@steves9905 Right on right on! My freshman year in college was 1970 and I remember so well how everybody's dream for their dorm room was to get a box (that's what we called the receiver), some bad speakers (bad as in good), and a mean (you know) turntable! 1970!😆🎶

    • @thomasschreiber9559
      @thomasschreiber9559 2 місяці тому +8

      The console stereo was usually the only FM radio in the house, all other radios were AM only.

  • @lynndupree1205
    @lynndupree1205 2 місяці тому +104

    My fav was the hanging bead curtains in the doorways! The noise it made! Also, for teens, black lights and day-glo posters of Jimi Hendrix. Bookcases made from cinder blocks and boards. My room was so coool!

    • @GothGuy885
      @GothGuy885 2 місяці тому +5

      my older sister had door beads that were these large red transparent beads.
      she gave then to me after she moved out. I grew up watching Dark Shadows,
      and developed a kind of vampire thing, and the beads reminded me of blood.
      wish I had kept them 🙁

    • @Therealtruthsocial
      @Therealtruthsocial Місяць тому +4

      @@GothGuy885 Loved Dark Shadows it scared the crap out of me.

    • @brendasnow8255
      @brendasnow8255 Місяць тому +1

      I made a bead curtain, of course. I had green appliances; the choices were that, brown, or gold. “Eat in” kitchen. I had a big shag area rug in the living room area, over oak floors. The LR/DR was 32 feet long. No tv in the living room. My husband and his dad made a huge stereo cabinet, walnut, but we didn’t have components in it until the 80s. The house was built in 1961; we bought it in 1971. It was bigger than most tract houses, and cost $32,000. I think a lot of the things in this video are from the 50s. Oops. I made macrame plant hangers in the 70s too.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +3

      The last video store we belonged to had those beads on the doorway leading into the adult section 😮

    • @judydenver5362
      @judydenver5362 Місяць тому +3

      ..I have a hanging bead curtain on my bedroom doorway! It has the Grateful Dead dancing bear on it! I bought it at Claires!!

  • @videointercepter
    @videointercepter Місяць тому +44

    When I was a kid in the early 70's, I was my father's TV remote control.

    • @Queenmebonnie
      @Queenmebonnie 22 дні тому

      😂😂😂😂

    • @lynnschnekenburger7270
      @lynnschnekenburger7270 22 дні тому +2

      Same here, so was my sister. And tin foil on the rabbit ears!!!! 🤣🤣

    • @xenuburger7924
      @xenuburger7924 17 днів тому

      I had to climb through 12 feet of shag carpet to change the channel! At least we had Lidsville and H.R.Pufnstuff to warp our young minds.

    • @Glitches59.
      @Glitches59. 9 днів тому

      Me too 😂

    • @dougfisher1813
      @dougfisher1813 7 днів тому

      He probably planned you for that reason alone, but only after price shopping for remote equipped televisions versus the long term costs of having a child.

  • @kirbywaite1586
    @kirbywaite1586 Місяць тому +213

    That kitchen with the green appliances is gorgeous. I'd take it on a heartbeat. Who wants to live in a world of gray?

    • @Paul_Wetor
      @Paul_Wetor Місяць тому +26

      I disagree about the green, but I recently ranted on Facebook about gray cars, gray buildings, and gray interiors. So dull.

    • @kirbywaite1586
      @kirbywaite1586 Місяць тому +8

      @Paul_Wetor You seem to have left out gray kitchens.

    • @smorgasbroad1132
      @smorgasbroad1132 Місяць тому +16

      Really, the gray should be passé by now. Mind numbingly boring.

    • @peskylisa
      @peskylisa Місяць тому +20

      @@Paul_Wetor I thought I was the only one who was sick of gray!

    • @akrenwinkle
      @akrenwinkle Місяць тому +17

      Everything is cookie-cutter white and grey now, right down to the countertops. Bland is the new exciting.

  • @rosezingleman5007
    @rosezingleman5007 Місяць тому +102

    Those granny square crocheted things weren’t called blankets but afghans. I have no idea why, but I have one in a trunk that my sister crocheted for my 15th birthday in 1974.

    • @sandrareynolds6619
      @sandrareynolds6619 Місяць тому +7

      Granny squares are popular again in 2024.

    • @mdaze9753
      @mdaze9753 Місяць тому +2

      Thanks to Harry Styles crochet is back in fashion 😊

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +4

      My best friend in 7th grade had a vest her gran made for her of the black background granny squares. I was very jealous 😂

    • @Lightsngear
      @Lightsngear Місяць тому +1

      My God you're the same age as me!!

    • @LoveLunaFam
      @LoveLunaFam 26 днів тому

      Yes and they were draped on the Davenport

  • @ArtsyPhartsy123
    @ArtsyPhartsy123 Місяць тому +157

    The colors were harvest Gold, Burnt Orange, and avocado green.

    • @nocturnaldruid2191
      @nocturnaldruid2191 Місяць тому +10

      Don't forget Almond.

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 Місяць тому +4

      @@nocturnaldruid2191
      Almond came along after the others
      Then for awhile black appliances
      were very popular. Colors aren't new.
      There were colored stoves and
      refrigerators in the 1930's but those
      were very expensive The 1950'/'60's
      had pink and aqua for kitchen
      appliance colors. "Coppertone"
      (burnished brown) was popular
      too by the end of the 1960's

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 Місяць тому +10

      Copper, don't forget copper. That's what we had and I think that 1970 refrigerator is still running in my parents' basement!

    • @bannol1
      @bannol1 Місяць тому +6

      There was also poppy red

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 Місяць тому

      @@chiarac3833
      Are you from Elmira,
      NY?
      I had one of those (GE?)
      Coppertone Ref/Freezer
      that (a year or so before
      I sold the house) I had
      spent a whole lot of money
      on to fix the gas defrost.
      The mechanic told me it
      would last another 30 years.
      The people who bought my
      house moved it to the
      basement.

  • @joachimgoethe7864
    @joachimgoethe7864 Місяць тому +47

    Ah, the 70's. I remember shag carpets. People had, "carpet rakes." Used for raking shag carpet back up were foot traffic flattened it down. And crochet flower pot holders. Hard to believe it's been almost 50 years. Was a great time to be a teenager, that's for sure.

    • @janicepalesch9221
      @janicepalesch9221 Місяць тому +2

      My romance with shag carpeting faded quickly. Raking carpeting.... Not the best use of my time.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +1

      My sister & I got to choose our shag carpet color in our rooms. I chose pale yellow. She went for hot pink! We had an Electric Broom with a rake attachment. No shoes upstairs.

    • @safffff1000
      @safffff1000 Місяць тому +1

      I liked walking bare foot on those carpets. My brother just bought a house that has that old carpet in the basement, and it is still in mint condition.

    • @jrnfw4060
      @jrnfw4060 29 днів тому

      My experience with shag carpet came when I worked as a motel maid in the 70s. I had this room to clean that was a check-out. Some kid had crumbled up uncooked spaghetti into tiny pieces and left it all over that carpet. Of course, it sank down into it and was a real pain to deal with. Our clunky old Kirby upright vacs were a joke in the best of situations -- and useless in this one. I had to get down on my hands and knees and pick up as much of that crumbled uncooked spaghetti as I could, and some of those pieces were so tiny, they were almost powder.
      Very inconsiderate kid and even more inconsiderate parents!

  • @maxben565
    @maxben565 2 місяці тому +143

    My father’s house was built and still stuck in the 70s. Time travel still available.

    • @georgescott4505
      @georgescott4505 Місяць тому +12

      Please tell me how its available. I want to go back to Panama City Beach, FL in 1975 and live out the rest of my life from there. I'll have 3 years to save up for a 1978 Mercury Gran Marquis, and will pass away long before the New World Order closes in.
      Plus my mother will be alive again and I can tell her how sorry I am
      about my dumbass stuff and how she was right. 🙂

    • @rdred8693
      @rdred8693 Місяць тому +7

      @@georgescott4505 I'm ready to join you.
      I'm sick of this time line

    • @georgescott4505
      @georgescott4505 Місяць тому +4

      @@rdred8693 Let's go! 😃

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +6

      That made me laugh. My brothers dropped his sons off at the basketball camp we all went to in the 70’s. I asked him how it was? Without missing a beat he said it was like driving thru a portal to the past. Same dirt road & everything else. Exactly the same 😂

    • @georgescott4505
      @georgescott4505 Місяць тому +4

      @@samanthab1923 I like things that don't change. Architecture aside, when buildings started getting remodeled on the inside back in the mid 90s, everything went from a cozy environment to bright and in your face.

  • @sharonsparks900
    @sharonsparks900 Місяць тому +33

    I remember my mom’s avocado kitchen. She loved it and that’s what counted. Miss you, Mom.💕

  • @something2chewon
    @something2chewon 2 місяці тому +90

    Born 1972. Colors people used most. Brown orange green

    • @sandrap6321
      @sandrap6321 Місяць тому +11

      Forgot Harvest Gold

    • @larryhunter2026
      @larryhunter2026 Місяць тому +2

      same here. I love those colors now, miss those times. My sis born in 66.

    • @wandacarr668
      @wandacarr668 Місяць тому +2

      And poppy red

    • @Therealtruthsocial
      @Therealtruthsocial Місяць тому +5

      I was born in 1961. Let me translate for you, it's Buffalo, Harvest gold and avocado. LOL!

    • @CapriciousCapricrn
      @CapriciousCapricrn Місяць тому +2

      You are so spot on.

  • @newdefsys
    @newdefsys 2 місяці тому +83

    No 70s living room was complete without an oil rain lamp, a new AT&T trimline phone and an infinity mirror.

    • @j.g.007
      @j.g.007 2 місяці тому +8

      Omg yes, the rain oil lamp! I was just asking someone if they remembered these, the other day ❤😊

    • @janicepalesch9221
      @janicepalesch9221 Місяць тому +5

      I just got rid of my oil rain lamp. I accidentally broke one of the "strings" down which the oil lowed. My hands were sticky with the oil as I placed it in a trash bag. I had a trimline phone, too. Later, I got a French phone. Now I have a landline, but a different system.

    • @brendasnow8255
      @brendasnow8255 Місяць тому +3

      Not in my house.

    • @mdaze9753
      @mdaze9753 Місяць тому +3

      That's fancy! We had a metal black - rented - party line phone from Ma Bell. AT&T didn't take over until 82 or 83?

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому

      @@brendasnow8255Same here. Not over my parents dead bodies. They were both highly impressed with Williamsburg reproductions.

  • @college388
    @college388 2 місяці тому +89

    I believe waterbeds began as a 1970s bedroom home fad and lasted a decade into the 1980s.

    • @cynthiacarter532
      @cynthiacarter532 Місяць тому +9

      We went through 3 king size waterbed mattresses from 1972-1997 all in a hand built wood frame.

    • @jennifermorris833
      @jennifermorris833 Місяць тому +3

      If you farted in a water bed it was like a tsunami, the ripples threatened to bounce you right out of the bed.

    • @vivaldi1948
      @vivaldi1948 Місяць тому +8

      I had one and loved it. I got the best sleep ever. Wish I still had it.

    • @gigistoner8004
      @gigistoner8004 Місяць тому +2

      I believe you are correct. Sidenote, watch the 2021 movie Licorice Pizza. Part of the plot is in 1973 San Fernando Valley, 15-year-old child actor Gary Valentine meets Alana, a 25-year-old photographer's assistant. Gary and Alana begin selling waterbeds after Gary comes across one at a wig shop. The waterbed was a new unknown item that Gary jumped on as the next big thing. Odd, but cute, romantic comedy-drama movie. It even has Bradley Cooper and Sean Penn in it.

    • @frankvolz7021
      @frankvolz7021 Місяць тому +6

      I have to agree, I have never slept as good as I did on my waterbed. Later models had baffles so they didn’t have quite as much movement, but they still floated your body so well! I sure do miss my old waterbed.

  • @jons.6216
    @jons.6216 2 місяці тому +42

    Don't forget about all of the decoupage and "wood burnishing" on furniture and pictures! Haha!

    • @Therealtruthsocial
      @Therealtruthsocial Місяць тому +3

      We decoupaged everything! LOL!

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +1

      I love those vintage decoupage handbags. Very preppy.

  • @vidform
    @vidform 2 місяці тому +52

    In the 1970s, Rosey Grier, actor, singer, and pro football player for the NY Giants and LA Rams, enjoyed macrame and needlepoint as a hobby.

    • @mph1ish
      @mph1ish Місяць тому +6

      That was his other head.

    • @Therealtruthsocial
      @Therealtruthsocial Місяць тому +1

      LOL! So funny!

    • @marciloni12
      @marciloni12 Місяць тому +2

      Lol, my grandmother taught my brother and I hand sewing (cross stitch and embroidery mainly).
      He was far more skilled than I.😅
      His profession is mechanical engineering.😊

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 Місяць тому

      Yes, and Lynn Swann took ballet for balance and movement.

  • @AnneECannon
    @AnneECannon Місяць тому +21

    I had a fuzzy bedroom rug in the shape of a foot, a keep on trucking blacklight poster, and a Panasonic ball shaped radio...was a great time to be a kid :)

    • @marthasimons7940
      @marthasimons7940 Місяць тому +1

      I had a hot pink shag rug in my bedroom which was decorated spring green and hot pink. I had that Panasonic Globe Transistor Radio. It was green. Yes, we had the shag rug rake. My brother had the black light and the Super Chicken poster as well as Mr. Natural. I still have the granny square afghan my Grandma made in 1969. It's a treasure

    • @slarkey4594
      @slarkey4594 25 днів тому +1

      The foot gas pedal and all the big brown vans 😂

  • @simplemanlovetocanoe6274
    @simplemanlovetocanoe6274 Місяць тому +38

    Oh I miss those days! I remember it all!!!

  • @melanievando2040
    @melanievando2040 Місяць тому +22

    I remember helping my mom rake the carpets 😅

  • @co6308
    @co6308 2 місяці тому +50

    I remember the organ shop at the malls. And yes! A guy in a suit would play the organ to get people to come inside their store. Ha... What great times it was back in the 70's/80's...

    • @valerielock2374
      @valerielock2374 Місяць тому +1

      My son played them there lol in the 90s

    • @peggyl2849
      @peggyl2849 Місяць тому +3

      Yes, and hanging at the mall with friends was an all-day activity, even if you didn't buy anything.

    • @melindasmith3713
      @melindasmith3713 15 днів тому

      ​@@peggyl2849why ?

    • @peggyl2849
      @peggyl2849 14 днів тому

      @@melindasmith3713 looking at stuff, looking at boys, maybe see a movie

  • @madonnahagedorn5649
    @madonnahagedorn5649 2 місяці тому +49

    Excuse me. Harvest gold was the color of our appliances. Yes indeed, growing up in this era with avocado walls and sculpted green carpet in the bedroom was an unforgettable experience.

    • @marthaduncan7694
      @marthaduncan7694 Місяць тому +2

      we had that colour for bathtub and sink...kitchen appliances were avocado green :)

    • @marko7843
      @marko7843 Місяць тому +2

      I would go back there in a minute!
      I actually liked all the geometric prints, smoked glass, oak and glass, and AIDS had not yet reared its ugly head before 1982...

    • @mtngrl5859
      @mtngrl5859 Місяць тому +3

      I believe Avocado green was late 60's-early 70's. I believe Harvest Gold was mid-late 1970's. I love the pink & black of the early 1950's and the turquoise in the late 1950's. I'm so over all this white and cool gray colors, love the color of the 1970's

    • @sovietonion72
      @sovietonion72 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@marko7843Bring back the pit! Awesome idea that looks good even in a modern house.

    • @mdaze9753
      @mdaze9753 Місяць тому +1

      @@mtngrl5859 My parents had avocado green appliances with matching Corelle dishes LOL

  • @jackiemartin4864
    @jackiemartin4864 Місяць тому +17

    All of these items can now be found in thrift stores and flea markets and are called “vintage” for very high prices! Amazing!

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +3

      Insane all those patterned mixing bowls 😮

  • @TheSeedsower107
    @TheSeedsower107 Місяць тому +18

    I'm a 70's kid too . I loved the 70's ! Still do ! I own a home built in 63. Love this era and its modern vibe. Won't be going back to the capet on the toilet anytime soon though. : )

    • @walterbrunswick
      @walterbrunswick Місяць тому

      Maybe you loved the style, but not-so-much the technology, otherwise you would still be using typewriters and postal, and not be on the Internet 😊

    • @TheSeedsower107
      @TheSeedsower107 Місяць тому

      @walterbrunswick I can love both friend .

    • @davidpar2
      @davidpar2 28 днів тому

      @@walterbrunswickyou can’t miss something you never experienced.

    • @americangirlx4
      @americangirlx4 3 дні тому

      I remember buying a raised ranch (remember those)? Which had wall to wall carpeting in the kitchen!! 😮😂. It was a grotesque brown/muddy green office tweed 🤢🤮. Probably to hide all the spills!!! But WHY!!???
      What's weird, the entire house had bare wood flooring and tile, but they only carpeted the kitchen!! 😂 70's design choices were often bewildering!

  • @carolsuepope2837
    @carolsuepope2837 Місяць тому +19

    OMG!!!! The macrame owl!!!! I have the one that was my mother's !!!!!!!

  • @eliseintheattic9697
    @eliseintheattic9697 Місяць тому +15

    I remember ALL of this. The home I grew up in had a lot of it, and what we didn't have my friends parents had. It was a crazy decade.

  • @scratchdog2216
    @scratchdog2216 Місяць тому +5

    Born '65. Fun times as a kid then. We had some features in our house shown here, if not, somebody else did. All very familiar.

    • @DigbyOdel-et3xx
      @DigbyOdel-et3xx 4 дні тому

      Yep we had the same or neighbors would too.👍

  • @johnnywalker4857
    @johnnywalker4857 Місяць тому +13

    Watching this video brought me back to the state of mind I was in as a child in the 70s and there was nothing my adult mind could do about it.

  • @Fair-to-Middling
    @Fair-to-Middling 2 місяці тому +20

    Dang, my parents must have been before their time. We had a super awesome stereo cabinet system with giant speakers set apart from the turntable and receiver. Man, I miss those days. Kicking up the sound and rattling the neighbor's windows!

    • @sonjagatto9981
      @sonjagatto9981 Місяць тому

      😨🤣🤣

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 Місяць тому

      My friend's dad took the speakers and hooked them to the TV. He used it at 6 AM on a weekend to wake up neighbours who didn't seem to understand that loud music late at night wasn't really acceptable, especially on a weeknight. He actually put the speakers in the windows on a nice summer morning for full effect. What did he play? The Bugs Bunny theme of course!

  • @mikem6384
    @mikem6384 Місяць тому +9

    Great memories.
    Honorable mention: naugahide, beanbag chair (or gigantic pillow on floor), crock pot, giant decorative fork and spoon (as others have mentioned).

    • @LoveLunaFam
      @LoveLunaFam 26 днів тому

      I was born in 79 and I have a huge wooden spoon fork and knife that I painted on my kitchen wall to this day lol

  • @peacelover3612
    @peacelover3612 2 місяці тому +21

    You forgot to mention 1976 and the celebration of the U.S.A.'s Bicentennial and how wood paneling and older style furniture,in living rooms,bedrooms,lamps,lampshades and more was a big influence on some homes.

    • @beth1627
      @beth1627 2 місяці тому +3

      Yes, even clothing a couple years before was affected by this. There's a family photo taken in 1973 while we were on vacation and I'm wearing a red, white and blue sleeveless sweater top and my mom has a red, white and blue sun hat on. I also had a pair of red, white and blue tennis shoes at that time. Obviously, the bicentennial was right around the corner and affecting fashion.

    • @fudgicle1427
      @fudgicle1427 29 днів тому +2

      Hell yeah. One of my strongest memories of the 70's is having U.S. Flag EVERYTHING in the late 70's. Bicentennial mania.

    • @SMtWalkerS
      @SMtWalkerS 28 днів тому +2

      Yes! My mom collected Bicentennial commemorative stuff and I still have a lot of it. Calendars, decorative plates. Log Cabin Syrup came in special Bicentennial glass bottles. T-shirts, dolls - SO much Bicentennials stuff!

  • @frankrizzo4460
    @frankrizzo4460 2 місяці тому +20

    I remember those sunken living rooms with the extended couches. And my grandparents always kept the plastic on the furniture for years. It was like brand new when she sold it to someone years later. Wood paneling was big also in the tv rooms especially in the basement. And waterbeds of course everyone had those as well.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +2

      My Nan kept the plastic on her living room lampshades

    • @Sparky-ww5re
      @Sparky-ww5re Місяць тому +1

      ​@@samanthab1923my grandparents also kept the plastic on their lampshades as well. Except on the floor lamp they got as a wedding gift in 1948, it was a 3 way and had a mogul base 100 - 200 - 300 watt bulb, that lamp put off some serious heat on the 300 watt setting, although grandma almost always ran the lamp at 100 watts. Then during her last 5 or 6 years before she passed 2 years ago, got her a mogul to medium adaptor for Christmas so she could use regular sized bulbs dispite losing the 3 way function, and saved her a lot on her electric bill by using a 75 or 100 watt equivalent LED, not to mention those large 3-way bulbs were becoming hard to find in the stores nearby, but regardless Grandma was never going to give up her old lamp as it had too much sentimental value.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +2

      @@Sparky-ww5re I watch a reseller who loves stuff from the 40’s. Those lamps are still out there. He’s found some & rewired them. Some with the original shades.

    • @Sparky-ww5re
      @Sparky-ww5re Місяць тому

      @@samanthab1923, the particular floor lamp my grandparents had used a large frosted glass shade with a single bulb, the trim holding the shade, pole and bottom of lamp was bronze, very elegant. Never found out if it was the original shade, but having raised 8 children and moved several times, it was likely broken and replaced at least once. Sadly the lamp among a few other belongings, all the copper pipes and some of the wiring was stolen in the weeks following grandma's passing, as the house was in the process of going through probate, and her closest neighbors who lived about a quarter mile down the road were on vacation at the time of the break in, and my heart sank when I went along with my mother to check on the house. None of the belongings were ever recovered, and once everything was settled after almost a year, the house was deemed unfit for occupancy and torn down.
      Satco now makes a LED version of the 100-200-300 watt tri-light, 10-22-34 watt, 1300-2900-4100 lumens, PS-25, E39 base.

    • @fudgicle1427
      @fudgicle1427 29 днів тому +2

      LOL, re the plastic on the furniture Our neighbor had plastic on ALL her furniture, and long sheets of plastic on the carpet. There were all these paths thru the house and God help you if you left the plastic path! Once at the dinnertable I asked my Mom if she wanted to have plastic at our house - she rolled her eyes and said "um, no" with disgust.

  • @original.intent.bitcoin
    @original.intent.bitcoin Місяць тому +12

    Man...I LOVE THE 70S. Still!!

  • @stephanieyvonne9436
    @stephanieyvonne9436 Місяць тому +9

    I was born in late 77 and I remember my grandparents having a lot of things I saw here. I especially remember my grandma having an organ just like the one in this video. She played so beautifully and when I was 11 she finally taught me to play as well. Such great memories❤️

  • @madonnahagedorn5649
    @madonnahagedorn5649 2 місяці тому +21

    I crocheted blankets that draped across the chairs. I also did the yarn plant hangers. Wow. What a trip down memory lane.

    • @B-ch6uk
      @B-ch6uk Місяць тому

      macramé was big

  • @annsalty5615
    @annsalty5615 2 місяці тому +21

    My father was ahead of his time and had component stereo system by 1970. Nothing too expensive. It lasted a long long time. I used it to death! Great music memories. Back then you really carefully listened to each track on an LP. It was never the same with digital.

    • @lauramitchell6725
      @lauramitchell6725 Місяць тому +3

      My husband bought his own Fisher component system when he was fifteen years old in 1971. It still works!🙌🏻

    • @shelleyharris7912
      @shelleyharris7912 Місяць тому +1

      Love the colors and shag carpets. We had the Curtis-MATHIS stereo console. My granny still plays records on it.

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@lauramitchell6725I have a 90s Fisher system that still works too!

    • @lauramitchell6725
      @lauramitchell6725 Місяць тому

      @@chiarac3833 👍

  • @Fair-to-Middling
    @Fair-to-Middling 2 місяці тому +24

    Most of those rooms you showed were the ones I dreamed about in magazines. The homes I lived in were way more modest. My mother did however have furry zebra print wallpaper on one wall in her bedroom. And of course, shag carpet abounded everywhere.

    • @CapriciousCapricrn
      @CapriciousCapricrn Місяць тому

      Can't help but feel that I'm glad that I lived in more modest homes than these! Think the ones shown are hideous. Yep; I was in my teens to twenties in '70s and guilty of having a lot of '70s stuff back then, but this stuff takes it to a level of hideous the likes I've never seen!

  • @reneecarter6702
    @reneecarter6702 Місяць тому +11

    The thumbnail is my dream kitchen 😩🫶🏻 I love this look

    • @estherwijnbeek8072
      @estherwijnbeek8072 Місяць тому +2

      I have friends who live in a house that still has such a kitchen; the old woman who lived before them in that house never changed anything. Every time I visit their house I am going back in time...

  • @JorgeGonzalez-uh7wy
    @JorgeGonzalez-uh7wy Місяць тому +9

    ...I love the 70’s forever and ever ....!! I’m proud about everything it happens ...OMG Congrats to everyone and I wish happy days ...

    • @judydenver5362
      @judydenver5362 Місяць тому

      The Partridge Family, with David Cassidy is the best musical comedy show of all-time!!!! I watch it everyday, now!!!!!

  • @caroltanzi29
    @caroltanzi29 Місяць тому +5

    This is a well thought out presentation video. Since I’m an interior designer, I just started to laugh at the wild interiors that people were living with. Great memories. I saw so much that is being used now and sold as retro.( which it is) I could even name the manufactures on some of these products. During the 60’and early 70’s, I worked for Macy’s SF as their home furnishing co-ordinator. Then in ‘72, I opened my own business. Great memories. Oh, I still have my business , just a smaller practice now.
    Again a fun video. Carol from California

  • @williamwelch7
    @williamwelch7 Місяць тому +8

    Thanks for the flashback!

  • @audreymartin2515
    @audreymartin2515 Місяць тому +4

    Oh my gosh the clocks with matching sconces, yes!

  • @nicole-uo9cd
    @nicole-uo9cd Місяць тому +7

    I still have my Regal avocado green crock pot!
    What, no mention of waterbeds?
    7:38 I was talking about coloured toilet paper just the other day with a friend and I also can remember the pay toilets in public rest rooms. So glad those are a thing of the past!

  • @chuckdacon4797
    @chuckdacon4797 Місяць тому +5

    Huge wall murals of scenic scenes that were applied like wallpaper were popular. Several friends had them, usually of sunsets. Sold at Spencer Gifts.

  • @joankuehn4479
    @joankuehn4479 Місяць тому +6

    Born 1953 my parents' designs were so much fun.

  • @1954shadow
    @1954shadow 2 місяці тому +8

    We had a Packard/Bell stereo-TV, console, had a b/w TV in it. My parents bought it in the early 60s. Mid 70s, the TV went out, dad went and got a new, color TV, took out the old b/w TV, and put the new color in its place. He did this because the stereo/turntable, still worked just fine.

  • @QuelquefoisFois
    @QuelquefoisFois Місяць тому +3

    Don't forget the Osterizer blenders were green and gold too. 😊

  • @peterjeffery8495
    @peterjeffery8495 2 місяці тому +13

    Component systems were all the rage in the 70's. Mine was a Sansui system with massive tooth rattling bass speakers. Forgot Bean Bag chairs and their inflatable cousins. Lava Lamps, Disco Balls and Fiber Optic lights too.

    • @worldtraveler930
      @worldtraveler930 14 днів тому +1

      I forgot about those fiberoptic lamps!!! 🤠👍

  • @ColeYounger16
    @ColeYounger16 2 місяці тому +8

    I am almost 55 and some of these homes look like mine lol. I like the part when you said, raking the shag carpet well done.

  • @user-wm8no6kz6s
    @user-wm8no6kz6s Місяць тому +30

    Ohhhhh good Lord, my worst nightmares brought back from my childhood!

    • @CapriciousCapricrn
      @CapriciousCapricrn Місяць тому

      Yes; thought this stuff was hideous too. Am thankful I never had any of such ugliness in my life.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +2

      A lot of that was especially jarring.

    • @gidget8717
      @gidget8717 Місяць тому +2

      I love the 70s. Best times of my life, my husband and I were young, happy and in love. These pictures swell my heart with happiness.

  • @cerberus6654
    @cerberus6654 Місяць тому +4

    Grea postt! Sixteen years ago I bought my house - built in 1970 out in the country and nothing changed since then and everything still in place. Shag carpets, walnut veneer walls, carpeted bathroom. A complete time warp museum. I was in love with the burnt-avocado kitchen appliances as I felt I was 16 again. But after a few months as winter approached they all just died. So I went to Sears and bought new ones. Then I got a bill from Maritime Electric after the first month with new everything, including washer and dryer. $65 dollars cheaper than any of the previous months. I got a heat pump and got rid of the oil burning furnace. The bill dropped by another $35 dollars. Then, I had all the old slider windows ripped out and modern thermal ones installed. Well, that lowered the bill even more.

  • @lottamiles5510
    @lottamiles5510 2 місяці тому +23

    I made a macrame belt back in the seventies. Wish I kept it.

    • @user-bn8mj9no6f
      @user-bn8mj9no6f 2 місяці тому +2

      Make another one!😊

    • @lottamiles5510
      @lottamiles5510 Місяць тому +3

      @@user-bn8mj9no6f You inspired me to find my old macrame books and make another belt.

    • @FlourishingLove
      @FlourishingLove Місяць тому

      @@lottamiles5510 I made a granny square sweater. It came out gorgeous! But, it is heavy compared to sweaters that are available in stores.

    • @lottamiles5510
      @lottamiles5510 Місяць тому

      @@FlourishingLove Marvelous. Was it a sweater vest? They were very popular.

    • @FlourishingLove
      @FlourishingLove Місяць тому

      @@lottamiles5510 No, its a full sweater. I'll go get the link of the pattern. It's here on YT.

  • @kenpullig1652
    @kenpullig1652 Місяць тому +7

    Can't forget the ever present types and styles of cigarette ashtrays all over the house. One of the things I Remember standing out in our living room was the tension rod floor to ceiling LP rack, in the corner by the closet. We had many friends that always had the one rule: take off your shoes before you hit the carpet. We kids didn't mind but I remember adults weren't thrilled.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +2

      Shoes off was the rule in our house. Even my dad who worked construction took his workboots off in the garage

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 Місяць тому +2

      We always removed the shoes in the house, grandparents, parents and now me.

    • @impalamama7302
      @impalamama7302 26 днів тому +1

      Yup and they were big enough to be pig troughs....usually done by someone who did ceramics as a hobby and given as gift to friends and family who didn't

  • @consciouspi
    @consciouspi Місяць тому +12

    Bed in forest bedroom is what I want.

  • @mosslandia
    @mosslandia 2 місяці тому +7

    Yes most of us lived in modest homes, but we still had the organ in my house, the macrame decor, and olive wall to wall carpet. And bead curtains. And day glo posters in the kids' rooms. Great videos. New subscriber. 🎉🎉🎉

  • @equesfuscus
    @equesfuscus Місяць тому +3

    The carpeted toilet-seat covers made it comfortable to sit on the toilet seat.
    The 3-dial weather station is useful. Still have one in my office. Tells me whether the air is dry or moist, warm or cool in the old building. Visitors love to check it out.

  • @Therealtruthsocial
    @Therealtruthsocial Місяць тому +5

    I remember my sister getting a black light and it brought hours of entertainment! LOL!

  • @truckingwithtobee
    @truckingwithtobee Місяць тому +2

    We had the outdoor scenes on the walls, spoons on the walls and a green and orange kitchen. And a big ole console TV

  • @markrichards6863
    @markrichards6863 2 місяці тому +8

    We had all midnight bronze kitchen appliances after the kitchen remodel. Looking back, it was really ugly, but on trend. The electric stove and fridge lasted well over 30 years.

  • @worldtraveler930
    @worldtraveler930 Місяць тому +23

    You forgot the beaded curtain that was used in place of doorways as well as the tiktok cat clock!!! ❤🤠👍

    • @kh3612
      @kh3612 26 днів тому +5

      Kit kat clocks were from the 1950's.

    • @theangriestcatintheworld
      @theangriestcatintheworld 20 днів тому +2

      ​@@kh3612 I still have one and it's one of my favourite things!

    • @macnchessplz
      @macnchessplz 15 днів тому +1

      I still love the beaded curtains.I used those in the 90’s .Liked them in the 70’s too (including the beaded curtains and the style they used in earlier decades.
      My Grandmother had a couple of pair in a couple of doorways in her house.They looked different than the 60’s -70’s style.
      More of a 1940’s ,solid color style instead of the multicolored.

    • @worldtraveler930
      @worldtraveler930 15 днів тому

      @@macnchessplz I have the "All Seeing Eye" curtain at my place!!! 🤠👍

    • @macnchessplz
      @macnchessplz 15 днів тому

      @@worldtraveler930 Oh,I bet you do….

  • @jrnfw4060
    @jrnfw4060 29 днів тому +3

    The conversation pits -- where folks actually sat and talked with one another, before the age of cell phones and constant texting. A warmer, happier and more vibrant period.
    BTW -- with today's fancy-smancy technologies, one would think that colored toilet paper WITHOUT the objectionable chemicals could be produced while still achieving those lovely decorator colors. So, why not? Surely, this can't be difficult to figure out. There must be other dyes that are safer while still offering the same range of vivid color choices we had in the 70s.
    What I miss most about the 70s are: My youth and my husband's youth, our larger families with more loved ones still alive, the first-hand creation of truly beautiful artworks and crafts AND the appreciation of same. And, gorgeous colors in nearly every room, especially the kitchens. Today's stainless steel kitchens look more like they belong inside of industrial plants than inside of our homes. I'd love to see those warm colors returning -- the harvest golds, avocado greens, burnt oranges, chocolate browns -- PLUS, appliances and fixtures of the 1970s were made from better quality materials and better quality workmanship. They were built to last, and many of them did.

  • @billofrightsamend4
    @billofrightsamend4 Місяць тому +2

    We had a macrame plant holder on the porch. The squirrel would come and comb out the fuzzy bottom for it's nest. Cutest thing 😆

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 2 місяці тому +8

    In the late 70s I purchased a Technics Amp, turntable and built my own custom speakers with Acoustic Research speaker components. Good times.

  • @splender88
    @splender88 Місяць тому +3

    When I think of the 70's its wood paneling, shag carpet, and green appliances.

  • @kasparsuppe862
    @kasparsuppe862 2 місяці тому +9

    The good old time🥰😍. How do I always say? The “golden 70s”, how I love this wonderful time. In particular, I have been into carpets ever since. ❤❤

    • @TinaRobinson-qf1dh
      @TinaRobinson-qf1dh Місяць тому

      I agree the 70s was so colorful the furniture the appliances everything now is drab and colorless

    • @lindalarsson1436
      @lindalarsson1436 Місяць тому

      Best music !

  • @rachelrangel6325
    @rachelrangel6325 13 днів тому +2

    I'd take this house over any modern house any day. Literally the best decade.

  • @judydenver5362
    @judydenver5362 Місяць тому +4

    The Partridge Family, with David Cassidy is the best musical comedy show of all-time!!!! 1970-1974! I watch it everyday, now!!!!! David Cassidy, and Morten Harket, from a-ha, in 1985 and on, are the most beautiful men to ever be, and incredibly talented, too!! What gorgeous singers!!! Listen to them, everyday, also!!! So wish I had a Time Machine!!!

    • @macnchessplz
      @macnchessplz 15 днів тому +1

      Agree about Morten Harket….

  • @audrey5941
    @audrey5941 Місяць тому +4

    I saw many of these trends on TV but our home was not so cutting edge. It was still a wonderful stroll down memory lane. 🙏

  • @charlesb7019
    @charlesb7019 Місяць тому +40

    I will take any one of those houses in a heartbeat. HATE today’s computer designed cookie cutter houses that only have detail on the front. The back and sides are plain plastic boxes. If that isn’t bad enough, they are now being painted BLACK outside and gray inside. No wonder everyone is depressed and anxious. Get some color and happiness in your life!!!!

    • @MrTroySinister
      @MrTroySinister 15 днів тому

      Me too

    • @rochelle..
      @rochelle.. 15 днів тому

      I’m with you 100% it’s all just bottom line profit blah blah boring now -cheaper, more efficient (what does that mean anyway?).

    • @janetduncan87
      @janetduncan87 13 днів тому

      I've noticed a lot of Grey in many structures. It's intentional. They're Turing cities into Gotham...

    • @rochelle..
      @rochelle.. 11 днів тому +1

      @@janetduncan87 hahhahahahaha I like your sense of humour

    • @karenmaher2092
      @karenmaher2092 9 днів тому

      Gray everywhere like a prison

  • @crystalcloud5065
    @crystalcloud5065 Місяць тому +2

    You showed the Macrame Owl!! Loved it! My oldest brother one year, in Art Class, they had to make something from Macrame. I guess he got Bold and decided on doing the LION. It was like a Chocolate color Brown. When he finished it at school and brought it home. That thing hung on a Dark Brown Paneled wall in our Den, over our Oriental design couch for years. He actually did a good job on it and I do believe he got an "A" on the project. I miss the "70s", THE GOOD OL DAYS!!

  • @DeannaPiercy
    @DeannaPiercy Місяць тому +5

    I was born in 1962 and we had most of these. My mom chose a very pretty aqua carpet for our living room and hall that was 2 inch shag. Raking it perfectly as I backed out of the room made my little OCD heart happy. Until my brothers had the nerve to walk on it - ha! And let me just say that when one of those brothers didn't make it to the bathroom in time and threw up in that carpet just outside my bedroom, well, it wasn't pretty.
    We had two of those console television sets, a console stereo, and an organ. In fact, my mom still has the organ. And yes, we had carpet in the bathrooms.

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 Місяць тому

      I bought a house with carpeted bathrooms. First thing I tore up when I moved in omg yuck...

  • @thetroytroycan
    @thetroytroycan Місяць тому +15

    I miss those crazy malls. Everything was wholesome.

  • @timward3116
    @timward3116 2 місяці тому +7

    Some of these are extreme examples, though - probably taken from magazine pictures. I was never in any home that looked like some of these more crazy examples.

  • @embreeja
    @embreeja Місяць тому +3

    We all had shag carpet (but sorry, I NEVER saw any as long as what you show), and we had all the avocado green appliances. Mini skirts were fading (sadly), and disco was coming (and I loved it). Compare that with today --- we did not know how fortunate we were!

  • @cw5451
    @cw5451 Місяць тому +2

    Wow! This really took me back. You did such a great job of compiling lots of 70s stuff! Some of the things I had forgotten, but you didn’t! Thanks for the memories. 😊

  • @PCAGA2298
    @PCAGA2298 Місяць тому +4

    The 1970’s certainly were a colorful and optimistic time ❤🇺🇸

  • @wandacarr668
    @wandacarr668 Місяць тому +18

    A neighbor has a coppertone range, and it still works!

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +1

      Mine had the refrigerator! Me & her hubby said what a shame it was we had no garage to keep it in! 😂

  • @berjaboy
    @berjaboy 29 днів тому +2

    Paneling was all the rage in the 60s and 70s. The console which you touched on here, but I remember them having everything. A color TV, stereo, record player, tape deck all in one unit. By the mid 70s they were on the way out. Clear plastic covering on furniture was big in the late 60s all through the 70s. Glad to see that go. Of course before cable, everyone had a big TV antenna on their roof to pick up broadcast TV. Most people don't realize, but before the 1980s, most people only received a handful of TV stations. If you were lucky, you got maybe 5 or 6 channels on the big color console in your living room. It was still a great time to be alive!

  • @ceasarandrepont1243
    @ceasarandrepont1243 Місяць тому +2

    I was born in '73 and remember some of these inventions. I always thought that the 1970s were awnsome and outlandish. Fun but over the top.

  • @j.g.007
    @j.g.007 2 місяці тому +5

    The wall clock and green candle story omg too funny😂 I love this channel. Your commentary is top-notch! ❤😊

  • @zackdemundo
    @zackdemundo 2 місяці тому +6

    “Curtis Mathes”
    Desaturated colors.
    Fondue sets.
    Big Wheels.
    Polyester - everything.
    Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.
    And a fortunate freeing of tv from the old, dirty, decrepit scenes of New York cop shows to fresh places like L.A., Minneapolis, Chicago, and Cincinnati.

  • @livinglife8333
    @livinglife8333 Місяць тому +2

    LOVE THE FIRST CHARTREUSE HOME!!!

  • @silverstar7047
    @silverstar7047 Місяць тому +2

    Wow! A real travel in time! I love it❤

  • @cynthiamurphy3669
    @cynthiamurphy3669 2 місяці тому +4

    My folks didn't go for shag carpeting, but my sister and I were allowed to buy some boxed pink shag carpet tiles and do our bedroom floor with them. It was cheap and easy to do. That would have been late 60s/early 70s. (Bummer to not be able to find your earring backs, though). Mom didn't care for anything more modern like you showed. She stayed with Early American decor for years and was somewhat of a wallpaper nut (even in the bathroom, of all places. Dad actually agreed to remove the shower head). Can't remember when Dad bought a nice stereo/FM-AM/record player console, and we all got a lot from that. He let me join the Columbia House record club and conned me into getting him his Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison albums, so like it or not, we had to listen to them, lol. I had my babysitting/house cleaning pocket money as a teen, and he actually did help me out, lol. Thanks for the memories!

    • @GothGuy885
      @GothGuy885 2 місяці тому +1

      yup that was my mom And dad also, they had early American furniture from back
      in the 1950's and refused to budge from that time period. anything of the 70's was
      too MOD. they never changed anything. one time they went somewhere for the day, and I rearranged the furniture to surprise them. they were surprised alright, and not happy so I had to move it all back again. 🙁

    • @mdaze9753
      @mdaze9753 Місяць тому

      We had smiley face "scatter rugs" in our bedrooms

  • @CM73878
    @CM73878 2 місяці тому +3

    My cousins lived in a new-build in Denver, Colorado, in the 70s. The kitchen had brown cabinets and the appliances, the dishwasher, fridge etc were also a matching shade of brown. It was deeply depressing in retrospect, but they loved it at the time.

  • @anthonybelyea1964
    @anthonybelyea1964 Місяць тому +2

    I like the song in living room or the pit where you sat around and talked but that's a great thing that should have kept going

  • @Andrew-vo9tg
    @Andrew-vo9tg 2 місяці тому +7

    I missed the colored TP. YIKES!

    • @johnvonundzu2170
      @johnvonundzu2170 27 днів тому

      My grandmother, when patterned TP came in, said she preferred to decorate it herself.

  • @lolawaara9132
    @lolawaara9132 Місяць тому +10

    My mom and dad bought a house in the 70’s , it had orange countertops and orange shag carpet!

  • @Michael9-23-15
    @Michael9-23-15 Місяць тому +1

    I appreciate you bringing me back to the good days. Lots of great memories.

  • @shawnmeyer2788
    @shawnmeyer2788 Місяць тому +2

    Have a lot of this still. We have three macramé hanging tables with smoked glass with a pot holder and light. We had the shag carpet with the rake. Each room a different color and some multi colors. Stair steps were open with the shag wrapping all the way around each step. My aunt and uncle lived in Mesa Az and they had a conversation pit facing a fireplace. The house was built in 1969 so they were ahead of the game.

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 Місяць тому

      My neighbourhood was built early 70s and many sunken living rooms. I love that look!

  • @user-zx8de8op9l
    @user-zx8de8op9l Місяць тому +5

    Most people didn't live like that, our home built in 1960 was about 1,100 sq. ft. My grandparents has a big house designed by my grandfather, In the country. It was remolded in 1964 and had a huge living room, with a focal;l fireplace, Large organ, Piano, 5 chairs, Couch, Large TV, 4 end tables, and many lamps. 13 people lived in the house.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому

      That’s quite a living room 😮

  • @LauraTuller
    @LauraTuller Місяць тому +4

    Spot on, from this GenXer! 🙌🏼

  • @dmcr8171
    @dmcr8171 Місяць тому +2

    LO VE THE 70's !

  • @stormypuurl
    @stormypuurl Місяць тому +2

    I think this is more the late 60s, maybe the early 70s. I was there, lots of happy memories.

  • @ajourney50
    @ajourney50 Місяць тому +4

    We had the best rec room, with a full bar, pool table, piano, large speaker and spot lights.

    • @DeannaPiercy
      @DeannaPiercy Місяць тому

      There were some great rec rooms in that era. Ours had a full second kitchen with built-in soda fountain. And of course, Pong on the console television.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Місяць тому

      My BF from school had a kick ass basement. Completely redone. Bar, dance floor w/jukebox. Full kitchen & real arcade video games. Asteroids & PacMan

  • @jdm1505
    @jdm1505 Місяць тому +4

    Enjoyed the video, but the console stereos, and a few other things shown, such as the last three clock and sconce sets, are definitely from the early to mid 60s. Of course people still had them in the 70s because they were only about ten years old, but they really do not belong in a video about 70s design. And, I will add, my parents bought a component stereo system in 1972. This comment might be nitpicky, but it seems to me that if one is going to the trouble of making a video, they should do their homework.

  • @madmanmechanic8847
    @madmanmechanic8847 Місяць тому +2

    The conversation pits back in the day when people came over to visit and see you and not need anything nor stab you in the back after they used you up. No cell phones no internet just people talking to each other I sure miss those days.

  • @debgersh5555
    @debgersh5555 Місяць тому +1

    All I can say is thank you for the visit, my mom was into all the fabulous trends of the seventies ❤ although I have one more; faux wood paneling! Our basement was so hip ☺️

  • @traylorillo
    @traylorillo Місяць тому +3

    The candles in the sconces in my childhood home were actually made of a clear acrylic with pieces of gold floating in them like a bottle of goldschlager and completely non-functioning. Nice trip through my childhood. The funny thing is many homes that were established in the late 60s-70s weren’t really updated even into the 80s and even 90s so this stuff stuck around a lot longer than people realize!

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 Місяць тому

      My grandmother rocked those acrylic candles on her dining room table. I have the candle holders now.

    • @davidpar2
      @davidpar2 28 днів тому +2

      We had a pair of those decorative tapers, too. I think they’re still around somewhere