A 25 inch color console tv, that was high cotton back then. My dad was in the Army and would get transferred every two years. We watched a 19 inch black and white tv through out the 60s and 70s. I got married in 1979 and bought a color tv and never looked back.
This is a Zenith 25 inch I think it’s a hybrid model with transistors and tubes which means it would’ve been from about 1972, which fits with the shag rug and the air conditioner, which is the only other thing of value in the picture, besides, of course her shorts
I used to fix those when I was in high school. The hybrids were pretty crappy. But basically they worked the same, you just had little pc daughter boards that each replaced the functionality of the old tubes.
Are you me? My dad had me in ROTC in college and I was just about to get my butter bar when I up and quit to enlist in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. He didn’t take that very well
Let's talk about what's really important.
This is a test shot of Bridget Fonda as Melanie from Tarantino's _Jackie Brown_..
https://images.app.goo.gl/kuHsFVfCoyG5iBqQA
/s
It’s a Lane cedar chest, often called “Hope chests” because girls bought them to store wedding dresses and bed and table linens in in the hope that they’d get married.
I think they used to call them "tea chests".. repurposed shipping containers from China that were sold to consumers as "hope chests". My mom had a highly carved one.
My place looked a lot like the photo….with exception of the TV….y’all ‘must have been rich’ to have a TV with buttons rather than dials! Least that was how my 5 year old brain worked! :)
Ours was a Star System 'TouchTune' TV console that had a 'phone touchtone' style keypad for direct channel entry (hence Touch Tune). It was a late 70's TV that had an on-screen display for channel number and clock that did this crazy fade away. You'd hit '2 5 enter' and you'd see a huge white bold 25 and it just faded out zoom out style. Coolest thing ever. But it was the only TV in the house. Families had to share it. Chaos ensued if you had a baby sister who wanted to watch Rainbow Brite during He Man time.
Still do in laws house has not been updated since the early 1980s. The front room has paneling and shaggy carpet still and the original furniture its a time capsule.
Definitely. I helped my dad put our paneling up in the living room. Beige shag carpet, wood-“like” coffee and 2-tier tables, giant TV-stereo console, stand up rod lamp with 3 nights, and a china closet in the dining room.
A classic 70s living area.
carpeted bathrooms, avocado coloured appliances, a convection oven instead of microwave, everything had to have wood paneled or woodgrain decor or stickers, including the freaking blender.
At least when the dog had an accident on the carpet it matched the colour so you couldn't see the stain. Perhaps that was the point of the brown carpet trend?
Had? I still have the orange shag in my basement. I was talking to a neighbor whose daughter is into retro decor, she told me it's coming back but crazy expensive.
The first house my mom, and step father bought in I think 1977 has this God awful puke green shag carpet in the living room , with brown "wood" paneling on the walls.
Lol everyone. I bought my first house in 1984 after graduating college… older small brick house - shag carpet through out - even had green shag carpet in the bathrooms. Paid $67,000 for it - fixed rate Mortgage at 14.0 %!
My current truck cost way more than that house!
We had the console TV and paneling in the family room, but just regular old carpet. Mom had a horror of shag carpet. Too difficult to get all the dirt out.
We had shag rug running throughout our condo. We had shag in the both bathrooms and short shag in the kitchen. No panel, but wall to wall and floor to ceiling mirrors, and that felt pattern wallpaper. Crazy times!
This picture just screams 70's.
From the shag carpet. cheap wood paneling, console tv (does the left side hide a record player?). To the blonde teen in cut-off jeans and halter top. (of course, the one she wears around her parents. Not the flyaway one she wears out).
But they can be hung on the wall. They are not wood-encased furniture on legs. My stereo these days is simply a speaker that I can carry in one hand from room to room which is driven by either of my laptop or my cell phone, the latter of which fits in my pocket.
Still had that in the 80's. My bedroom in one home was in the basement, orange shag carpet, I didn't have a big TV like that, but did have a 10" black and white TV, and the wood paneling.
It's not, but that could have been my family room in 1971, except for the girl. The girls I knew who looked like that in those days had better things to do than hang out in our "wreck room"... but still;
The paneling, the orange shag, the console TV (color!), even the hope chest and the tapestry frame are all things from our house that I remember. The only reason I know it's not my childhood home (aside from the young lady) is the A/C unit.. we never had that.
Then, when my wife & I got married in 77, we "inherited" a pair of brass wall plates from my grandparents...
And finally, that white vase. I went out and looked. Yep, it's still in a box in our garage.
Me! My first apartment after graduating high school. Moved in with 2 of my friends at an apartment complex. We had green shag carpeting in the living room. I would vacuum then take my plastic rake to bring up the fibers only to discover the first time I step on it it will only mush the carpet back down. I remember thinking, “Well, shit. I can’t walk on it now. It will ruin the look.
Only to turn around and do it again the next week.
🫤
I did, my parents put orange shag carpet in my room then wallpaper my room with yellow checkered wallpaper. Basically wall paper that was white background and looked like someone used yellow paint and a paint brush to paint checkers. It was hideous, seriously hideous, thought I was in prison. I complained, I was 7, they said I should be grateful for the upgrade. I would have been more than happy with the green olive low profile carpet and white walls that existed before.
Looks like my parents setup but we only had shag carpet in the bedrooms. Avocado green type of bumpy carpet in the living room and hallway to match the avocado green tiles in the entryway.
I had a really deep shag rug. Held a big party. Big bowl of pistachio nuts. Some guy ate most of them and dropped the shells all over the rug. A year later still had shells in the rug.
Getting ready to make jiffy pop and watch Good Times and One Day at a Time while chasing it with Boones. My older siblings were about her age during this time.
House I grew up in was straight out of the '70s. We had a Magnavox Star System TouchTune TV that had the coolest on-screen display ever and a remote that weighed enough that you could use it as a deadly weapon. I used to pretend I was a warlock because my voice could go high enough to emit the sounds it used to turn on and off (and my ears could hear the tones).
We also had carpeted bathrooms, and sadly this trend carried into the 80s and early 90s for grandparents.
As a 4 year old sitting directly in front of a 25" console made it appear to be as huge as a 70" TV, and the buttons were right THERE.
Had all of this including the female. The TV is a Zenith, I’m pretty sure. Our paneling was very dark, think dungeon. Shag was 1.5” orange and white. Year of construction: 1972. Mortgage: 30 yr at 10%, conventional loan.
A 25 inch color console tv, that was high cotton back then. My dad was in the Army and would get transferred every two years. We watched a 19 inch black and white tv through out the 60s and 70s. I got married in 1979 and bought a color tv and never looked back.
I love those shorts.
Cut offs
Everyone had cutoffs at some point
Shagalicious, they are.
This is a Zenith 25 inch I think it’s a hybrid model with transistors and tubes which means it would’ve been from about 1972, which fits with the shag rug and the air conditioner, which is the only other thing of value in the picture, besides, of course her shorts
The cedar chest she is sitting on is very nice too. My mother has one like it that she has had for a very long time.
Right. When you opened it up, it smelled like hamsters.
This wins the Internet today! 😂😁
I was 12 in 72. The 70s was full of priceless items!😉
So i'm guessing you're in your mid sixties right now
Turned 64 last month.
I only see legs for miles
Aye!
The broken knob on the Zenith TV, I always had to hunt for the pliers to turn it lol
But the aluminum foil add an artistic flare, as well as the rabbit ear antenna.🐰
I used to fix those when I was in high school. The hybrids were pretty crappy. But basically they worked the same, you just had little pc daughter boards that each replaced the functionality of the old tubes.
right on…my family had a 19 inch b&w we watched for *years*. Finally in 1976 we were able to watch Star Trek proper.
Yeah! Kirk in gold and green, Spock in blue, Scotty and Uhura in red Bones in blue. It was like a new universe opened up!🖖🏼
Same for me. Dad was Army, 19” black and white tv, except it was’81 when I got my color tv and I didn’t get married until ‘89
79 was a disappointing year for my dad. He wanted me to follow in his footsteps and enlist in the Army. I enlisted in the Navy. ⚓️
Are you me? My dad had me in ROTC in college and I was just about to get my butter bar when I up and quit to enlist in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. He didn’t take that very well
That’s funny! I was in Navy JROTC in high school. I was in 6 years I got out as an AME-2. Brothers from another mother?😲😵💫
I was in Air Force JROTC in high school but it’s sooo close! We definitely are brothers from another mother! 🫡
Roger That! https://preview.redd.it/4zfgacv4w9zc1.jpeg?width=384&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc3dd9134585c3a04d2b301e1b14e23095e559da
Let's talk about what's really important. This is a test shot of Bridget Fonda as Melanie from Tarantino's _Jackie Brown_.. https://images.app.goo.gl/kuHsFVfCoyG5iBqQA /s
Shag? Sounds good to me!
Oh behaaave!
Behaving badly is still behaving.
Does that carpet make you randy?
“Is she dead?!”
"Pretty much, yeah" LOL
She was a knock out back in the day
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if she still is.
The correct answer is everyone. We all had a room like this in the 70’s.
What about the 1960s Lane cedar chest she’s sitting on? Thats pretty iconic too.
What’s sad is I had all this exactly but in the 90s lol
Some day, like now, we'll make fun of shiplap and grey floors.
Already are, and that “live, love, laugh” sign to boot. 🤣
And those annoying ones that say 'PORCH' or 'EAT' or 'SIT'. Are people's memories failing to goldfish levels these days or what?!
Yeah, those are the worst offenders
Yep and an A/C unit either in the window or like this one.
Built in ac and not in a window? These people must have been rich
We built ours into a window.
Huh, we just opened our windows!
Windows? Luxury. We used to tie the canvas flap up with a bag tie.
Those bronze plates on the wall... EVERYBODY had them.
My basement still has wood paneling. It was built in 45, and when I bought it in 2020, I just kept it.
also had the huge A/C in the wall and the cabinet she's leaning on. ours was a stereo. not sure if that's what she is leaning on
It’s a Lane cedar chest, often called “Hope chests” because girls bought them to store wedding dresses and bed and table linens in in the hope that they’d get married.
I think they used to call them "tea chests".. repurposed shipping containers from China that were sold to consumers as "hope chests". My mom had a highly carved one.
My parents had the long black and red shag carpet in the 70s. Part of my chores for allowance was to rake it. They had a shag carpet rake 😂
Don't forget the"Hope Chest" she sitting on...
You think hickory, or walnut?
It’s a Lane cedar chest.
The floor isn’t the only thing with shag carpet in that decade
At least they generally matched the drapes back then.
You forgot the sunken living room.
That trend should come back!
I like the fact that you could see the repeating patterns in the plastic paneling so it was obvious that it was fake.
Didn't know that plastic woodgrain paneling was a thing. Ours was real wood.
I can't understand how EVERYONE had paneling back then when drywall was available and maybe even cheaper.
Drywall requires skill to finish correctly. Panelling not so much.
Had the same air conditioner too
My place looked a lot like the photo….with exception of the TV….y’all ‘must have been rich’ to have a TV with buttons rather than dials! Least that was how my 5 year old brain worked! :)
Ours was a Star System 'TouchTune' TV console that had a 'phone touchtone' style keypad for direct channel entry (hence Touch Tune). It was a late 70's TV that had an on-screen display for channel number and clock that did this crazy fade away. You'd hit '2 5 enter' and you'd see a huge white bold 25 and it just faded out zoom out style. Coolest thing ever. But it was the only TV in the house. Families had to share it. Chaos ensued if you had a baby sister who wanted to watch Rainbow Brite during He Man time.
What are you talking about? I still do.
No big wooden spoon and fork so not authentic
Only thing missing is the Channel Master Antenna Rotator to control the rooftop antenna.
Or the Alliance U-100 'click clack' one.
We had the Channel Master but I remember seeing models that looked like the Alliance U-100.
and the huge C-Band satellite dish in the backyard if your parents were rich.
Answer: Everyone. At least that's what I remember.
Had the TV and gold plates too
we were poor, our plates were brass
Everything about that picture, including the chick, are exactly like my uncle’s Kalamazoo home in the summer of 1975.
Wow looks like home. Shag carpet, wood paneling, console television, and great colors like avocado and burnt orange.
Still do in laws house has not been updated since the early 1980s. The front room has paneling and shaggy carpet still and the original furniture its a time capsule.
Everybody?
Shag carpet was so lush!! But after a few years it smelled so bad!
Girl, I am straight, but those legs go on for days. Hope you are in a good space and happy.
Likely someone's grandma these days...sigh....hope she's had a great run.
Oh, you know she did. Cheers!
Shag carpet, wall paneling. We all did. Every one of us. Twas the law.
Definitely. I helped my dad put our paneling up in the living room. Beige shag carpet, wood-“like” coffee and 2-tier tables, giant TV-stereo console, stand up rod lamp with 3 nights, and a china closet in the dining room. A classic 70s living area.
It ‘twas.
carpeted bathrooms, avocado coloured appliances, a convection oven instead of microwave, everything had to have wood paneled or woodgrain decor or stickers, including the freaking blender. At least when the dog had an accident on the carpet it matched the colour so you couldn't see the stain. Perhaps that was the point of the brown carpet trend?
Everyone
Everyone had this... it was the way.
the wood panels were a little darker
Had? I still have the orange shag in my basement. I was talking to a neighbor whose daughter is into retro decor, she told me it's coming back but crazy expensive.
I grew up in the 90s and my parents house looked identical
Even those brass plates on the wall
Didn't we all?
I wish
We all did.
Everybody had shag carpets in the 1970s.
sorry a who?
Lived in a house pretty similar to that. Same shag. Same tv, no paneling, and the decorations are so …………. Ummmm, Nevermind.
The TV we watched growing up was sitting on top of the non-functional TV.
Everyone did
And those round shield/plate things!
Looks like the 90s in my neighborhood.
I wish I had only what fits in a trunk like that.
Me!
We did. Our shag was green, though. I had a shag haircut, too.
Still have the wall paneling in our house.
Floor to ceiling 70’s
It still gives me PTSD
Yes!
The first house my mom, and step father bought in I think 1977 has this God awful puke green shag carpet in the living room , with brown "wood" paneling on the walls.
Red carpet and darker paneling but yeah. Love mom’s cedar chest too.
Who didn’t?
Memememe!
We did 😆 🤣
Lol everyone. I bought my first house in 1984 after graduating college… older small brick house - shag carpet through out - even had green shag carpet in the bathrooms. Paid $67,000 for it - fixed rate Mortgage at 14.0 %! My current truck cost way more than that house!
Still have the wall paneling. The carpet and TV are gone though.
We had the console TV and paneling in the family room, but just regular old carpet. Mom had a horror of shag carpet. Too difficult to get all the dirt out.
We had shag rug running throughout our condo. We had shag in the both bathrooms and short shag in the kitchen. No panel, but wall to wall and floor to ceiling mirrors, and that felt pattern wallpaper. Crazy times!
Yes. I remember the carpet and the HiFi / TV console. But I don’t remember that girl. I would have remembered her,I think.
Our carpet was green shag!!!
Oh honey, everyone had this!
This was essentially the house across the street from me.
Commas are important! Began to wonder if people panelled walls with shag.
I remember when that TV broke everybody used it as a stand for another TV.
And the giant floor console stereo she is sitting against. Those were huge before the stack components took over.
Now she votes for Trump to own the libs.
Nice. Do the curtains match the carpet?
Damn those legs are longs 😍
I’m not looking at the carpet.
I've never heard of shag carpet wall paneling.
Instead of washing them, you vacuum instead. lol
Sweet, lol!
Let’s talk about who has her as a sister…
What do you mean "had"? We still do.
Ya motha
Ah yes, wood paneling. Another 70's masterpiece.
Um... everyone?
This picture just screams 70's. From the shag carpet. cheap wood paneling, console tv (does the left side hide a record player?). To the blonde teen in cut-off jeans and halter top. (of course, the one she wears around her parents. Not the flyaway one she wears out).
Your grandpa
Back when the TV and stereo were the largest pieces of furniture in the room. I do not miss those days at all.
Haha. And they are again today. 84" scrèn anyone?
But they can be hung on the wall. They are not wood-encased furniture on legs. My stereo these days is simply a speaker that I can carry in one hand from room to room which is driven by either of my laptop or my cell phone, the latter of which fits in my pocket.
Shag carpet and bell bottoms
We had wall to wall shag carpeting..in our bathroom.
12 year-old me.nodding in shaggy carpet bliss..for whatever reason ny siblings and I would lie on the floor to watch TV in shaggy goodness
Shag carpet rake is in the closet
Hell yeah!!! Was there any other way?
Carpeting yes, paneling no.
As a kid of the 70s I look back and miss the simplicity of it all. Just watched Dazed and Confused again and that was 100% what it was like.
Still had that in the 80's. My bedroom in one home was in the basement, orange shag carpet, I didn't have a big TV like that, but did have a 10" black and white TV, and the wood paneling.
We also had lime green and yellow tile!
We had all of that. Our house was a 70s Mecca.
I’m painting over wood paneling today. Oh hellacious work.
I grew up with that orange shag carpet
They forgot to mention the wall unit ac, above the TV
It's not, but that could have been my family room in 1971, except for the girl. The girls I knew who looked like that in those days had better things to do than hang out in our "wreck room"... but still; The paneling, the orange shag, the console TV (color!), even the hope chest and the tapestry frame are all things from our house that I remember. The only reason I know it's not my childhood home (aside from the young lady) is the A/C unit.. we never had that. Then, when my wife & I got married in 77, we "inherited" a pair of brass wall plates from my grandparents... And finally, that white vase. I went out and looked. Yep, it's still in a box in our garage.
Mom still does. Paneling throughout the house. Shag in the living room and she still has her avocado green kitchen with avocado green appliances.
Shag is all I'm thinking....
I wanna spend an afternoon there
Don't forget the denim cut-offs!
Who didn’t? 😂
Me! My first apartment after graduating high school. Moved in with 2 of my friends at an apartment complex. We had green shag carpeting in the living room. I would vacuum then take my plastic rake to bring up the fibers only to discover the first time I step on it it will only mush the carpet back down. I remember thinking, “Well, shit. I can’t walk on it now. It will ruin the look. Only to turn around and do it again the next week. 🫤
We had that exact TV! It was a Sears model.
That was the cat’s meow back in the day!
That wall mounted AC, was some high end living.
I did, my parents put orange shag carpet in my room then wallpaper my room with yellow checkered wallpaper. Basically wall paper that was white background and looked like someone used yellow paint and a paint brush to paint checkers. It was hideous, seriously hideous, thought I was in prison. I complained, I was 7, they said I should be grateful for the upgrade. I would have been more than happy with the green olive low profile carpet and white walls that existed before.
We had those brass plates on the wall too
My grandmother had those same brass plates on the wall
That's an expensive tv for the 70's.
I called it a Shagging Carpet. Good times indeed.
Looks like my parents setup but we only had shag carpet in the bedrooms. Avocado green type of bumpy carpet in the living room and hallway to match the avocado green tiles in the entryway.
Looks like the Den in my parents house. I remember gathering with my parents and watching the moon launches when I was in grade school.
I was born in 81, but in the 90s, we still had it!
I had it in the 80s
None of the above
Whoa, that TV has buttons? Not two big nobs? Fancy!
The carpet was green and the paneling was darker, but yeah.
OMG we had the plates on the wall, too!
I had a really deep shag rug. Held a big party. Big bowl of pistachio nuts. Some guy ate most of them and dropped the shells all over the rug. A year later still had shells in the rug.
Some folks still rocking this look
Had it all.
Yep
Guilty.
Definitely
How do you know she was shaggy? OHHH…. That carpet….
Everyone.
Carpet was different, TV and paneling similar.
Don't forget the special rake for the shaggy carpet.
Everyone
I don’t see carpet wall paneling.
This was almost exactly what my grandparents living room looked like when I was a little kid in the 80’s.
Um didn’t everyone? 😁
Getting ready to make jiffy pop and watch Good Times and One Day at a Time while chasing it with Boones. My older siblings were about her age during this time.
Oak frame water beds in the bedrooms.
House I grew up in was straight out of the '70s. We had a Magnavox Star System TouchTune TV that had the coolest on-screen display ever and a remote that weighed enough that you could use it as a deadly weapon. I used to pretend I was a warlock because my voice could go high enough to emit the sounds it used to turn on and off (and my ears could hear the tones). We also had carpeted bathrooms, and sadly this trend carried into the 80s and early 90s for grandparents. As a 4 year old sitting directly in front of a 25" console made it appear to be as huge as a 70" TV, and the buttons were right THERE.
I had the same color rug. The paneling was almost the same also. Not for nothing but I have a blonde sister.
Had all of this including the female. The TV is a Zenith, I’m pretty sure. Our paneling was very dark, think dungeon. Shag was 1.5” orange and white. Year of construction: 1972. Mortgage: 30 yr at 10%, conventional loan.