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re: An American kitchen in the 1970s
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:21 pm to MorbidTheClown
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:21 pm to MorbidTheClown
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avacado green and harvest gold
Definitely were the colors. My parents place built in 75 had a avocado bathroom (toilet and shower) and a harvest gold bathroom (toilet and shower).
Also colonial wallpaper in kitchen celebrating the bicentennial. Shag carpet, etc. It was pretty horrid until they remodeled over the Yeats.
Mom (no pics) said they just didn't have much of a choice on things. That was all that was being offered at the time.
This post was edited on 12/12/22 at 3:26 pm
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Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:22 pm to RedRifle
I think ours was like that.
My dad ran out and bought a microwave when they came out. It cost something like $600 and my mom was not pleased.
It lasted forever.
My dad ran out and bought a microwave when they came out. It cost something like $600 and my mom was not pleased.
It lasted forever.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:23 pm to 777Tiger
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uh, baw, that would have been the boomer's parents
You talking the kitchen, or embracing modernity? Because a lot of baby boomers already owned houses in the 1970s.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:24 pm to RedRifle
Harvest Gold and Avocado Green
The colors of my early childhood. Well, that and mood ring colors.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:28 pm to RedRifle
My parents didn’t have a 7O’s kitchen, they went from their 50’s kitchen to an 80’s one.. Finally remodeling after 30 years.. 
My mom went from cooking on this...
To this..
She didn't know what to do..
My mom went from cooking on this...
To this..
She didn't know what to do..
This post was edited on 12/12/22 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:29 pm to weagle99
quote:it shows up in Morbid's pic
Where is the sandwich maker?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:29 pm to RedRifle
We had one of those avocado green stoves and refrigerators well into the early 90's. They came with the house when my folks bought it in 1976. My mother (no pics) wanted some new appliances, but my old man was all about not spending money if something wasn't broken. Finally, around 1993 my mother (again, no pics) said frick it, I'm getting me some new shite, so she did. My uncle took the fridge and put it in his workshop. That mother fricker is still working to this day.
My grandparents kitchen was something right out of 1960. They kept it in impecciable condition, and I loved it. My grandfather was another "take care of your shite, and if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind of guy. They sold that house in 1993. It came onto the market again about three or four years ago, so I checked out the listing on the real estate website. The cabinets were still the same, tile, backsplash, countertop, and even the stove was still there. I was impressed.
My grandparents kitchen was something right out of 1960. They kept it in impecciable condition, and I loved it. My grandfather was another "take care of your shite, and if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind of guy. They sold that house in 1993. It came onto the market again about three or four years ago, so I checked out the listing on the real estate website. The cabinets were still the same, tile, backsplash, countertop, and even the stove was still there. I was impressed.
This post was edited on 12/12/22 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:30 pm to Iron Lion
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Where is the sandwich maker?
it shows up in Morbid's pic
she was busy getting knocked up.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:31 pm to NATidefan
We still have an oven from 1975 in our kitchen. It's not green but it is pretty ugly at this point. It works like a tank though so I'm hesitant to replace it with modern junk
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:32 pm to RedRifle
Quite ugly, but so is all this white/gray "farm"house crap that dominates today.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:34 pm to 777Tiger
quote:right. the boomers abandoned this timeless, beautiful style by taking out second mortgages to renovate their kitchens to more modern styles
uh, baw, that would have been the boomer's parents
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:35 pm to RedRifle
guarantee that fridge still works, probably in some baw's shop stocked full of Busch light
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:35 pm to RedRifle
And, if you had a kitchen that looked like that you probably had one of these behemoth TV's that weighed almost as much as a Volkswagen.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:35 pm to RedRifle
paint the walls grey and you would have a joanne gaines designed room
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:37 pm to Traveler
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Grandma had one of these bad boys in her living room, when it went out the new TV sat on top for way longer than it ever should have. It took me, my brother and my dad to finally move that thing to the curb.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:38 pm to RedRifle
my kitchen looks like that now, minus the yellow
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:42 pm to JiminyCricket
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I know tastes change with time and styles come and go, but I can't imagine looking at that color scheme and thinking "yes, this is the look I want."
You wouldn't want the metallic pea?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:44 pm to MorbidTheClown
We had that wallpaper.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:44 pm to RedRifle
No microwave!
Bump this to the 1980's please.
Bump this to the 1980's please.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 3:44 pm to Tempratt
I still have some of the first microwave dishes my Mom bought in the 70s
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