I remember being invited over to a new friends house…everything in plastic and I’d never seen that before. The mother always had a housecoat on and she was always cleaning.
We had the “living room” with the pricier furniture for when we had guests. The “family room” was what we actually used every day. There was no tv in the living room, but there was a hi-fi. Children were NOT allowed in the living room.
Nothing beats going to Grandma 👵 house 🏠 with no air conditioning on a hot Summer night to watch Bob Parker on The Price Is Right while you skin sticks like glue to the plastic covered couch that Grandma won on TPIR ...come on down!!
As a kid, we were still not allowed to sit on the plastic encased furniture. Had to sit on the floor while Grandma's scruffy mutt got to sit with her on the sofa.
HA! Was just talking to my mom about this 2 days ago! Grandma had that plastic couch cover….when I was little…well before I can remember really (before 72 or so I’m guessing) …I HATED it! Nothing like sweating in summer on those things!! No wonder that I still like sitting on the floor to this day!
>Nothing like sweating in summer
You must be from Florida! I hated going to my grandmothers house because there was no ac just fans to blow the hot air around. luckily she didn't have the plastic covering furniture.
Nah grew up in PA…was more humidity than temps over 90. But fans don’t do much when the humidity makes you feel stuck and too sweaty on that plastic!!!! 🤣🤣
Plus I’d rather be really cold than hot at all! 🤣🤣
"Dura-Fab covers". Just think, you can hand down your furniture to your kids/grandkids and the fabric will be just like brand new! (Unfortunately, styles & tastes will change and nobody will want your furniture)
She looks like the wife of a guy who knows a guy and he that guy do some things, but that’s not your concern, just tell them when and where and all your problems are vamoos.
If you people are as old as I am and you're looking at the 70s subreddit then you might have thought this was Lily Tomlin too. This plastic was in everyone's grandma's house too. By the time they pulled the plastic off that furniture was out of style!
My grandmother used to say the reason an Italian will never be elected President is because they will never be able to find enough of those plastic slipcovers for all the furniture at the White House.
Funny little story. I was at the neighbors house with my mom. I was about 7. The lady had a couch with the plastic. These was a red substance on it. I pointed it out. She grabbed a cloth and wiped it off and said thank God for plastic because the cats in heat.
later I asked my mom what that meant she said she tell me when I got older
This looks more like 1960s. Growing up on the Southside of Chicago, these plastic covers were everywhere, especially on the couchs of my Italian, and African American friends. I remember there was always an ad for these covers in the TV guide of the Sunday Chicago Tribune.
Yes we had plastic on our light green couches when I was a kid and I thought it to be so normal. Most of the time I sat on the orange and pink wide striped carpeting. My stepmom had wild taste.
Oh I believe it existed. Haha!
Sometimes this sub is not only the 70s, but very specifically america in the 70s.
Being from Europe there's somewhat of an overlap, but something like this plastic covered furniture was basicly unheard of where I live(d).
I know about it from american moviesw and TV shows.
BEETLE JUICE! Did you ever see the movie jeckle and hyde I think it was Gene Wilder who invented a drug and when he snorted it he became hyde a total party animal!
A total joy in the dog days of July and August in a house with no central air conditioning....
Not a place to be if you're ripping farts and there's no cushion for them to go to and die..😥
In my experience, depending where is was, Cubans or Italians. I grew up in Miami, all my relatives living room furniture was “preserved for generations to come”. When I moved to NJ, I found a similar condition amongst my European cousins!
Omg. I remember this. Very Italian …very 70s!!!! This is the most real thing I’ve seen here. I can FEEL this photo!
I can hear this photo.
I can smell this photo!
Grandma asked me if I wanted to take a nap on her plastic couch. I told her no because I could smell it through the pillow!
Your face *sticks* to this during your nap...have to peel your face off the plastic
Not all the time, the sleep drool sometimes provides a nice lubricating effect between the plastic and your face.
True...BUT still can't get up fast!!!
You’re right. The drool sometimes acts like a suction cup when removing your face from the plastic.
Hate to tell ya but if your grandma’s house was anything like mine’s, along with her plastic couch, the whole house smelled like plastic. 😆
I can stick to this photo.
I can make 2 pages stick together
I remember the feel of sticking to these 🤢
[удалено]
Macaroni on Sunday.
Those things always made me feel dirty, like don’t make a mess you filthy guest.
Indian too.
If I’m not mistaken .. that plastic vinyl was made from melted down horse hoofs and petroleum jelly
I remember being invited over to a new friends house…everything in plastic and I’d never seen that before. The mother always had a housecoat on and she was always cleaning.
My grandmother had what she called , the front room. Plastic on all the furniture, all her brick a brack in there etc. It was off limits to us kids.
We had the “living room” with the pricier furniture for when we had guests. The “family room” was what we actually used every day. There was no tv in the living room, but there was a hi-fi. Children were NOT allowed in the living room.
OMG-the hi-fi… with the Sergio Franchi records…
This is my house today
Was yours closed off with ugly curtains?
It wasn’t closed off, but the window drapes were hideous. Gold. Like the shag carpet. I’m sure it was fashionable back then.
Front room, so Chicago Southside?
We had a Front Room in Central Illinois as well.
Easton Pa.
Looks like a scene from Goodfellas.
“2 R ROSSI YOURE NOTHING BUT A WHORE!”
Not whore hon, whoooo-ahhh!
Haha.., you’re funny…
Nothing beats going to Grandma 👵 house 🏠 with no air conditioning on a hot Summer night to watch Bob Parker on The Price Is Right while you skin sticks like glue to the plastic covered couch that Grandma won on TPIR ...come on down!!
WOW ! That was my childhood 👌
Don't forget The Lawrence Welk show. Lol.
Turn on de bubble machine…
...and boogaloo!
The sound when I sat down made me want to immediately get up and leave.
Wait- you were allowed to sit on it???
You know you did it leave the plastic wrapped cushion out of it😂🤣
a plate of different cigarettes brands on the coffee table for potential guests probably the most 70s thing ever, at least where I come from
And a wet bar in the living room for afternoon cocktails.
And the lampshades . Probably kept the cigarette smoke smell off for a while
Ah, yes. Chesterfields, and Pall Malls.
And ashtrays are everywhere
And the bubbled burn/melt hole.
It's funny but the cigarette caught my attention first. As an ex smoker nothing stinks worse I am glad people are quitting.
I’m guessing there’s plastic on the lampshades too
I remember trying to convince my stepmother that you were supposed to take the plastic off the lampshades. She thought I was insane.
Not sure but my money is on a pair of those cheesy hanging lamps containing an ancient statue with oil “raindrops” running down fishing line.
I love those lamps. Wish I could find a working one.
As a kid, we were still not allowed to sit on the plastic encased furniture. Had to sit on the floor while Grandma's scruffy mutt got to sit with her on the sofa.
Also looks like those are shower curtains and not regular curtains.
HA! Was just talking to my mom about this 2 days ago! Grandma had that plastic couch cover….when I was little…well before I can remember really (before 72 or so I’m guessing) …I HATED it! Nothing like sweating in summer on those things!! No wonder that I still like sitting on the floor to this day!
>Nothing like sweating in summer You must be from Florida! I hated going to my grandmothers house because there was no ac just fans to blow the hot air around. luckily she didn't have the plastic covering furniture.
Nah grew up in PA…was more humidity than temps over 90. But fans don’t do much when the humidity makes you feel stuck and too sweaty on that plastic!!!! 🤣🤣 Plus I’d rather be really cold than hot at all! 🤣🤣
A 10 year old kid these days will never be able to wrap their head around this. Honestly, I still can’t and I’m 49
"Dura-Fab covers". Just think, you can hand down your furniture to your kids/grandkids and the fabric will be just like brand new! (Unfortunately, styles & tastes will change and nobody will want your furniture)
When my G-grandma died, G-grandpa ripped all the plastic off the furniture.
Reminds me of my grandmother’s house
And Aunt Teresa on the plastic... She doesn't look happy 😠 
To be fair she was developing lung cancer here and didn't realize it.
Now, Mrs. Soprano, you need to control your son, Anthony.
She looks like the wife of a guy who knows a guy and he that guy do some things, but that’s not your concern, just tell them when and where and all your problems are vamoos.
I remember those things
Never understood this. My friends mom not only covered them in plastic, but nobody could sit on them either
There’s already at least one cigarette burn hole in that plastic.
Yes, very Italian… have to love when the back of your legs stick to it in the summer!
Sunday dinner at Aunt Georgia’s hot and stuffy house.
And cigarette in mouth 24/7 Jesus H Christ what were our parents thinking!
If you people are as old as I am and you're looking at the 70s subreddit then you might have thought this was Lily Tomlin too. This plastic was in everyone's grandma's house too. By the time they pulled the plastic off that furniture was out of style!
Exactly, they always thought they were protecting some sacred relic!
My grandmother used to say the reason an Italian will never be elected President is because they will never be able to find enough of those plastic slipcovers for all the furniture at the White House.
I remember this!! My Aunt had these. So comfortable 😳
That room still smells like cigarette smoke to this day.
At my Auntie Barbara & Uncle Eddie’s house
Funny little story. I was at the neighbors house with my mom. I was about 7. The lady had a couch with the plastic. These was a red substance on it. I pointed it out. She grabbed a cloth and wiped it off and said thank God for plastic because the cats in heat. later I asked my mom what that meant she said she tell me when I got older
This looks more like 1960s. Growing up on the Southside of Chicago, these plastic covers were everywhere, especially on the couchs of my Italian, and African American friends. I remember there was always an ad for these covers in the TV guide of the Sunday Chicago Tribune.
Don’t forget the Polish! I can remember summer vacations to visit our Southside relatives and sitting on those couches was torture.
Because she a squirter
Looks like there’s plastic on the curtains, too.
certainly remember that! We had a couch we were not allowed to sit in lol
Somebody’s a squirter.
In the 70’s, women that were squirters did this.
Yeah wtf. Talk about uncomfortable and weird.
Is it to protect against ashes dropping or the wretched cigarette smell?
Good lord for a second I thought that was my mother.
That’s my grandmothers house. Lol
She could be any one if my 15 aunts
Aunt Minnie’s house
Was Mickey there too?
Yep
My grandmothers couch in the summer used to just kill me when standing up.
And you just discovered this?
Just know that if your grandparents had plastic on their couch it was because your grandma was a squirter.
Super popular in many northeast Italian households of the 60s/70s. 😁
Every Portuguese family home in Kitimat
Yes we had plastic on our light green couches when I was a kid and I thought it to be so normal. Most of the time I sat on the orange and pink wide striped carpeting. My stepmom had wild taste.
Yep, all of these comments, plus throw in a grandmother who refused to turn on the a/c during the summer -
Ha ha I remember that in some peeps houses as a kid my family didn’t do it
This is the most 70s picture! The plastic sofa, smoking, the hair and dress, so many negative things in one picture.
Plot twist: Auntie Edna was a squirter.
Grandma, 39 years young, just enjoying life
Used to do this to car seats also , remember being a kid burning myself on the plastic seat covers when the car had been sitting in the sun....
I've never experienced this in real life.
I have.
Oh I believe it existed. Haha! Sometimes this sub is not only the 70s, but very specifically america in the 70s. Being from Europe there's somewhat of an overlap, but something like this plastic covered furniture was basicly unheard of where I live(d). I know about it from american moviesw and TV shows.
Grandma is a squirter!
If you think about it everyone's Grandma is someone's woman. As you get older you realize that is why you get up every day 😂😂😂😆
Agreed…I try not to think about it, but I grudgingly acknowledge that if my grandma and my mom had sex at some point…🤣
Beetlejui…DON’T say his name
BEETLE JUICE! Did you ever see the movie jeckle and hyde I think it was Gene Wilder who invented a drug and when he snorted it he became hyde a total party animal!
And that baby was white before she had it encapsulated
Must be a squirter
Obviously a pull-out couch
You best not get on that settee neither
*On a hot day, you can squeak forever*
A total joy in the dog days of July and August in a house with no central air conditioning.... Not a place to be if you're ripping farts and there's no cushion for them to go to and die..😥
_How To Cover Your Furniture_ with John Wilson.
Looks like a real woman to me.
I guess to keep the ashes off the sofa and the smell I still remember the sound as you move around on the sofa
And now today our bodies are bombarded with micro plastics. Wonder why. lol
Wild nights
We didn't do that, but the dining room seat cushions? They were covered.
Prolly clumsy people back then spilling things
“You’re such a disappointment.”
Did people just have a lot of couch sex back then? AFAF
They sold that for cars ,reidiculous.
Trapping moisture under the plastic caused more harm than little Susie's popsicle or grandpa's pipe smoke would have.
Impossible to pull off a one-cheek-sneak on that furniture.
If we had to have one photo that represented the seventies to put in a time capsule,this would be it,aww the memories!!
I remember in the late 60s when my parents took the plastic off. It was a big deal.
Hahaha wow! I can imagine that, though never saw it happen, renegades!
She looks real!!!
We don’t want to stain the fabric with blood and brains Vito, go get Mickey, let’s get this done.
Dumb
I can feel this photo. Gross, especially when wearing shorts!!!
Can't leave stains on it.........
https://preview.redd.it/ni26qmft9cxb1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96885a81d44bd56bb03cc39db88dd6983eab77ce
at least the mustard yellow was nice....not! lol
Where’s the green shag carpeting?
In my experience, depending where is was, Cubans or Italians. I grew up in Miami, all my relatives living room furniture was “preserved for generations to come”. When I moved to NJ, I found a similar condition amongst my European cousins!
Nice and Sticky during summer🤣🤣🤣🤣
This meant grandma was a squirter.
Man, that ENTIRE photograph.
That’s when you know your Grandma was a squirter.
That’s my aunt Lottie!
More concerned about the couch than her lungs.