Let's be Datalounge if it existed in the 1970s.

OMG, I want that house!

I'd probably choose the "blues and greens" option next door, but great room, OP.

Love it. And love the organ.

I want this house too! OP, where did you find this fabulous photo?

DL needs to get over its obsession with the 70s.

That was a LONG TIME AGO!!

It came from this article, R4.

What’s with this chick Bonnie Franklin? Does she not own a bra?

[quote]DL needs to get over its obsession with the 70s. That was a LONG TIME AGO!!

Stupid comment.

And it harms no one.

Thanks r6! I love these threads. Exactly, r8

One can never have enough yellow.

I rather like this one too, though for different reasons. Just erase the Salman Rushdie looking dude out of the photo...and the kid of course.

[quote]One can never have enough yellow.

Or green.

Yellow and brown.

R12 Where is the green in that pic?

Nixon's Oval Office. So much yellow, blue and white. There needs to be some more red, stripes perhaps?

Oy, the Ruth Madoff poster. Did someone authenticated steal your precious, irritating siggy?

[quote]your precious, irritating siggy?

It is irritating, isn't it?

Bit like iDunno. God, he bugged me!

It looks like the set from Boys In The Band.

Pink plaid and green Cabbageware. No wonder little Anderson turned out gay.

I really like this, and I am not ashamed! However, the couch in a lighter green and style would been perfect. It is too heavy for the room.

I'll be "Let's be a cocktail party at the Mitchell's Watergate co-op."

R19 You mean pink gingham, not pink plaid.

Oh! I love the conversation pit! It looks like it was designed by that dishy dreamboat dad in Sherman Oaks. Too bad he's stuck with that screechy wife and those 6 horrible kids.

[quote]Just erase the Salman Rushdie looking dude

Oh let him stay, he already had to spend years in hiding and deserves some r&r.

I'd still be there!

OP I'm sure a person or two has fallen into that sunken living room.

Is that a mid-century modern "floor violin" in the corner on the right? That's a new one.

I can't see or hear the tv while you're playing the organ.

We had a sunken living room like that back in Grand Rapids. But after a couple of episodes of me having too much Ruinite on Ice with a Miltown chaser and falling into it with my caftan, Gerry had it filled in.

Betty, I didn't know you lived with your first husband in Toledo until your house burned down a couple of years back. I was sorry to hear about it.

r5 would be the first legal abortion under Rowe.

Perfect! And r10 r15 and r30 could all be the second legal abortion. Though I would be fine with an old school back alley job.

Shhh, Ruth. I don't like talking about my first husband. It's bad for my squeaky clean image. I was a Martha Graham dancer for fuck's sake! Now Susan, won't you be a dear and fix Mommy a gimlet.

I love the way this has turned into a rather broad, general conversation about decor.

OP's timing for another '70s thread IS a bit off. The paint is barely dry on the other MAMMOTH one. I think the '70s lovers people probably need a break.

I hear you r34 but I have to admit I can never get enough 70s action. My happiest decade. Thanks OP, sorry it may not be heading in the direction you intended, but it is still a great thread. The photo with your post was so inspiring!

"Let's be Datalounge if it existed in the 1970s"

OP, is that furniture in your photo from a dollhouse?

I Imagine a bunch of hateful and homophobic people trying to close DL for being indecent. The 70s were not so wonderful after all.

I loved the '70s.

Who gets to be the cool mom who seems to have it all but is secretly hooked on Valium?

I'm the flyover non-twink dreaming of life on either coast.

Some possible threads:

Does Karen Carpenter look too thin?

BREAKING! John Travolta moves in with Diana Hyland Part 14

OMG! I just saw this scary movie called Halloween

The Susan Richardson Appreciation Thread

Will there be a community cookbook with favorite recipes by DLrs done as a fundraiser? I’ll contribute my old family recipe for The-Next-Best-Thing-To-Robert-Redford Pie.

"Whipped topping"? Please, r43.

fuck this, I'm goin outside.

R27, could the instrument be a Domra?

More please!

We need a salute to sunken living rooms. Love them.

r17 oof, forgot all about Idunnnnoooo. Insufferable, the cupcake cunt has carried on his legacy.

I lurve the 70s. I was a kid running wild and it was all so sweet. Hard to imagine being so carefree when it's a decade known for serial killers.

I’m the key party the Johnson’s are throwing. All good fun but the children shall never know.

I'm the quaaludes that two dudes have been taking all day, while they languish in a permanent 69 position, and referring to each other as MY LUVAH.

"Who Is Rhiannon?"

Weren’t those pits heavily utilized during those key parties?

They’re bringing back WHAT as a one-hour variety show? I thought that show was cancelled for good already.

The TV repairman just left and he said I'm going to need a whole new set. I've only ever owned a Zenith but my friend Walter just got a new Magnavox and he's been singing its praises. Any advice would be much appreciated.

OK what's for tonight's dinner party?

I'm the latest fashion trends.

My mother had that book R56 along with a “burnt orange” fondue pot. Yes, she held fondue parties wearing a fabulous hostess set with hot pants under a snug fitted empire top with a slit down the front.

cardamon yellow: lobby of the Hotel du Cap, Antibes

Are Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter secret swingers?

culottes

Heart attack, my foot! Nelson Rockefeller was fucked to death!

I was looking to buy a house for an investment in the 90s. The real estate agent sent me to a house where the owner was home and gave us a tour. (I’d brought a friend with me that day,thank goodness). It turned out to be a low ranch suburban tract home. Inside, the owner began the tour in her kitchen, in which all the green painted, basic contractor 1970s cabinets were fringed with fake tan grass. “I love ‘South Pacific’. It’s my favorite movie. I’ve always wanted my own Polynesian retreat, so I made it here in my kitchen, where I prepare foods from that area of the world. I use lots of pineapple!”

Then it was on to the living room. It had a “picture window” that was bedecked in drapes, gauzy looking full length white curtains and white metal Venetian blinds about 3” wide. You could not see out the window. “Since this room faces the street, I decided to close it off from traffic and create an oasis. The furniture is genuine French provincial, which I keep protected “ (it was encased in plastic). The room also had gold shag carpeting “with extra foam underneath so you can just sink into it”

I only remember looking at one bedroom, in which she’d hung framed magazine photos of airliners and words cut out of magazines saying “Paris” “London” “Rome.” It was her son’s room, she explained. She wanted him to have a sense of adventure.

All windows in the house were draped in swathes of crisscrossed fabric with blinds pulled down to create “ the sense of a haven from the outside world.”

The last was a tour through her 40x60 backyard where she’d “carved out a Japanese zen garden.” It looked like a mostly bare backyard with some low juniper ground cover here and there.

I felt really sorry for this lady. It was pretty clear she’d had some kind of dreams that had never panned out and she was trying to elevate herself from lower middle class suburban-tract-home life. I told her house was lovely and a wonderful retreat that I’m sure would be perfect for someone, but I was looking for a two story home. She started talking about how I could always add onto the home, since she’d priced it at what she felt was below market. I thanked her and told I had to go pickup my mother from the hospital. I just wanted to get out of there while maintaining my composure, and I beat it for my car.

It reminded me of the various decor-related scenes in Goodfellas, but sad.

R63, sounds sad like some Blanche Dubois character.

I loved the designer homes of the 70s but my family was too poor to afford the cool stuff.

I’m the disco record of “The Best of My Love” that plays endlessly on my hi-fi.

Letsh be the Sheventies.

Mary Tyler Moore had a sunken living room / sleeping room.

TV dinners, turkey with mashed potatoes, gravy, fruit cobbler.

^^ I preferred the Hungry-Man dinners. ^^

It ticks all the boxes, doesn’t it?

Shag carpet, blond wood, sunken living room. Console television, even the organ.

Was this in the Midwest?

I get into Studio 54 every night I go!

Jealous?

Dick Cavett rapping with Stills, Nash, Joni Mitchell and Jefferson Airplane on his groovy set, the day after Woodstock. Not technically the 70s yet but just 4 months short..

When you look closely at that living room photo closely in the original post, it really looks like a miniature doll house.

So closely you type "closely" twice.

The video, in case anyone’s interested. It’s pretty groovy.

r70 types husky.

Some samples of 70's design guaranteed to cure nostalgia.

Yet another Broadway actress comes to the boob tube. Charlotte Rae is the best thing on Diff'rent Strokes. Hey, NBC, give her a show of her own! Seriously, though, all 3 kids are good actors too. I'm sure they will all move on to better things when this sitcom runs its course. (I give it 3 seasons.)

Who gets to be the crudely made gold painted plastic goddess surrounded by sad plastic foliage in the center of a tacky rain lamp?

Is Bottoming Better On A Waterbed?

R81 you never know if that liquid running down your crack is cum or from the waterbed.

You want this so much

Oooh, this one has an idea 8 track AND a cassette

Let's have a fondue party at my house!

Thread:

Big doings on the Three’s Company set. Rumor is that gal Suzie Summers (sp?) is creating quite the ruckus. She wants $15,000 per episode!! Can you even imagine anyone making that much money? It’s crazy!

[quote]Oooh, this one has an idea 8 track AND a cassette

I remember those. You only had them in America. In England you only ever saw 8 Track players in the car.

My father brought this 8 Track player from the USA. It was quite cool. But I hated 8 tracks because you could never rewind and listen to the same song over and over.

I never had an 8-track, and didn't get a cassette player until I could drive.

[quote]Let's be Datalounge if it existed in the 1970s.

Most DLers are trapped in the 1970's so I feel like this entire thread is redundant.

Assuming this place was filled with 1970s eldergays.

God damn those annoying, young Baby Boomers! They're ruining everything.

OMG - talking of which I had one of those cassette players in the far left corner! My mother brought me one back from the USA per my request, for my birthday. But it was white and I was disappointed. I wanted a colour.

Also things from the USA I couldn't play on the mains and batteries are expensive for a 12 year old. So that was a pain.

[quote]Most DLers are trapped in the 1970's so I feel like this entire thread is redundant.

Thank you for your comment, sourgurl. You're free to go now.

Let's bitch about the double-LP list price of "Tusk."

Should I go with the brown jacket or green?

I mostly bought 45s through the 70s. LPs were too expensive. I had a few.

This one I got for Christmas. One of the times my mother really got it right.

Sourgurl must be the new, woke, shortened term for "honest person".

[quote]Sourgurl must be the new, woke, shortened term for "honest person".

So, you're sticking around for some reason.

No, just another word for cunt r96

We have a very important school report on turquoise jewelry due in two days, and we can't find any books on it, and the President's having us followed! It's too much pressure!

What's going on with the Symbionese Liberation Army? Where on earth is Symbionia? My encyclopedia makes no mention of it

Tasteful friends, what do you think of my shaggin' wagon decor?

Carole King’s “Tapestry” and Stevie Wonder’s Inner Visions were hailed as the masterpiece albums.

[quote]Where on earth is Symbionia?

It’s downtown. A groovy discotheque. Shitty tacos, but good dancing.

I saw the most far out sight in the locker room today. There was a really good looking man, very fit, but he had actually shaved his pubic hair. I've never seen anything like it and I know you all probably wont' believe me, but I know what I saw.

Are you sure it was a man, r204?

There’s no way any man is shaving down there! Can you imagine what the Norelco ads would look like? He either had that condition like that Dave Ferrie cat or you looked at a little boy!

Far out and groovy = 60s.

It wasn’t exclusive to the ‘60s, r106.

I was there.

OHMY GOD! Look what I found in my son Travis' sock drawer!!!!

I'm the copy of Physique Quarterly sold under the counter at a newsstand. I end up hidden under a teenager's mattress with all my pages stuck together.

It’s FABU!!!

I love this new Linda Ronstadt album.

What's The Word On Kristy McNichol?

Let's Pretend We Write Questions For Match Game!

We'd all be talking about what was on Doctor Demento.

R91 I got a portable Panasonic record player for my 10th birthday to play my 45s.

OMG! They now have American style ice-cream in London!

[quote]Prince Charles has tried it twice. Lee Remick had it on her birthday. Paul McCartney, Elliot Richardson, James Coburn and Dirk Bogarde have queued up for it. And thousands of British students, European tourists, and homesick Americans have suddenly discovered it.

[quote]“They don't know from ice cream in this country,” said the actress Lee Remick, who has lived in Britain for almost seven years, and who was driving by Dayvilles with her son the day opened last December. “There was that ever‐loving familiar sight — all white and clean. We went crazy,” said the actress

[quote]Sourgurl must be the new, woke, shortened term for "honest person".

Or "cunt."

[quote]“They don't know from ice cream in this country,” said the actress Lee Remick

Was she from The Bronx?

R117, are you also r98?

No, r119. Are you the "see" queen?

Correction: You ARE the "see" queen.

One of many, r120. There are a lot of us.

Even one is too many, r121. You cunt.

What happened to Richie's elder brother on Happy Days?

(As big a question then as it is now.)

I just ordered 20 K-Tel albums from Columbia House records for a penny. I'm planning to cancel my subscription of $55 per month after they send me my records.

R123, he had to enroll in Mary Ingalls School for the Blind after not finishing his antibiotics after his syphilis diagnoses.

Wow, did you know 10% of the country is fat and that dietary fat is the reason why? Hopefully that McGovern Report that President Carter supported will do something about it.

Mark my words, r126, the government will step in and reduce that to 5% tootie quick.

Carter won’t stand for a nation of fatties.

Thinking of going to the movies tonight. There’s this new one called “Jaws,” but it looks stupid. I mean Roy Scheider as a police chief? C’mon!

Anyone see it yet?

My grandmother went to see Liberace. She think he just needs to find the right girl.

Diana Ross was robbed of an Oscar this year. She should have won for "Lady Sings the Blues" but the racist Academy gave it to the evil spawn of a drunken, drug addled Hollywood legend who offed herself while sitting on the can. Way to keep it classy, Judy.

He grew up and became Lana Lange's mean drunk of an ex-husband. R123

Let's pretend we "work" or volunteer for The Rainbow Coalition.

I did R93. And I still have it and it's in pristine condition. I think it was something like $19.00. Just saw there's one for sale on eBay for $0.98.

So, are Bert and Ernie “family”?

[quote] [R91] I got a portable Panasonic record player for my 10th birthday to play my 45s

I got a “portable” record player too, but it wasn't battery operated. It still had an electrical cord that was attached to it. The “portable” part meant it didn’t have a top like the one below, it was made of plastic and the handle was built into tg3 side.

[quote] What happened to Richie's elder brother on Happy Days?

He joined the Navy and died in the Vietnam War. No one wanted it mentioned on the show, lest there be one less “happy day.”

I had an early “cassette” player. It was even before 8 tracks. It was a cartridge you shoved into a slot at the top of the plastic “player” housing. Each cartridge had one song on it. There were very few songs ever released on cartridge. I only had 2 cartridges - one was the Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing” and the other was Arlo Guthrie “The Motorcycle Song.” I think it was 1967 or so. Can’t find a photo of one. I was the only person I knew who ever had one. It was useless within a few months because no one wanted to buy only 1 song when a 45 record gave you 2 songs.

It was something like this. I guess had 2 songs on each cartridge, not just one. I remember mine had a shoulder strap for carrying while you listen to music. It was battery operated, so was truly “portable.” It was the first time I was able to play my own music wherever I went

If DL was around in the 1970s I suspect there would be numerous threads about how horrible Nixon is.

If DL had been around in the 1970s, the "ignore" function would have worked.

Pride parades are the best place to get good drugs and to get laid.

Did you see Leonard Matlovich on Time cover? Looks like a snake going down the side of his military uniform.

Someone told me Richard Carpenter is straight? He pings to Liberace heaven!

Starsky and Hutch - now, come on. Even R129's grandmother is suspicious of them.