In every 70s US home ever

And on that bookshelf: Passages by Gail Sheehy.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull was popular in the early 70s but even as a kid it seemed banal to me

You could always tell who had the hip parents by seeing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on the bookshelf. (Spoiler Alert: we didn't have it on our bookshelf.)

forgot about that book

Jonathan Livingston Seagull was popular in the early 70s but even as a kid it seemed banal to me

it was Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City in the late 70s that made me want to move to San Francisco

A Shel Silverstein book (this may have just been a New York / Cali thing)

Nope, it was a Midwest thing, too. We had Where The Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree, and The Missing Piece.

Erica Jong's Fear of Flying?

Erma Bombeck

Judy Blume

read about Ram Dass's death last week. his Be Here Now was the defining book of the 70s for me

Loved that book, though I wouldn’t discover it until the eighties.

catholic homes had ‘good news for modern man’

ours disappeared in the early 80s and was found rotting in the wet grass up the side of the house, it wasn’t me but i was a suspect

a lot of these are reminding of my childhood home that was mostly furnished in the mid 70s that I lived in for the 80s!

wood burning stove with huge hearth, shag carpeting, smaller television on a two level “entertainment center” that had a top middle space for tv, and two open areas on the bottom sides for 70s wood speakers with a thatch pattern in the front. audio receiver with that bluish lighting

rotating armchair (not reclining) with a shiny velvet texture. living room furniture with gold/green/brown/orange color scheme. vinyl kitchen floor with pattern that looks like square tiles. medium brown wooden cabinets in the kitchen. bronze/gold table lamps with a bulbous shape and large lampshade (I might have one of these stashed somewhere). side tables with double doors for storage

I’ve lost the original lampshade, but behold:

https://i.imgur.com/NBy1DoT_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

audio receiver with that bluish lighting
is there any other circumstance in which that blue light appears?

catholic homes had ‘good news for modern man’

hahahahaha YES we had that lamp

An ashtray the size of a dinner plate

Journey to Ixtlan

A box of Wheaties with Mark Spitz on the front

^good one

which reminds me:
Quisp AND Quake

the Grease soundtrack album

Bicentennial detritus

Tab in fridge

<i>Jaws</i> paperback

Jaws even

The Spirograph mention in the UK thread made me think of this one:

If the household has any connection to children whatsoever there is a Lite-Brite set somewhere

two nations separated by mostly but not always completely different household bric-a-brac

Lite Brite was another item not allowed in my particular house but yeah

Shrinky Dinks

Bicentennial detritus

Nothing he's got he really needs

TV Magic Cards

Props to Marshall Brodein!

Ha, good thing I left his name out of my post, probably would have spelled it wrong

Underoos that have shrunk
Simon Says
Connect Four
That electronic football game with the red LEDs

unprotected sex

Bicentennial detritus

my parents’ marriage innit

Simon Says

That electronic football game with the red LEDs

TV Guide

speaking of TV, All In the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Lite Brite was another item not allowed in my particular house but yeah

― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs)

Do you come from Amish? What was the objection to Lite-Brite?

No, just Outerborough German-Irish Catholic. Think perhaps somebody was concerned about us swallowing the pieces.

https://www.twincities.com/2010/01/03/w-va-doctor-expert-at-removing-ingested-items/

Before iPods and Playstations, Lite-Brite toys, which include hundreds of small, multi-colored plastic pegs, caused problems.

“Now that we have fancier play toys, we have been seeing less of these,” Nasir said as she pointed toward the Lite-Brite.

we didn’t have a lite brite either. my mom was very resistant when we requested toys with lots of small parts that were going to get lost or scattered!

Speaking of choking hazards, Battlestar Galactica:

http://www.toysyouhad.com/Bstar.htm

The series was a hit, albeit a costly one. Mattel snatched up the rights to a toy line - hoping to match Kenner's Star Wars success. Amazingly, long after the series ended, the toys continued to fly off of the shelves of toy stores everywhere. There were several types of toys released, the most popular and notorious were the missile-launching toys of 1978. Using a similar spring-loaded mechanism of their Shogun Warrior line, Battlestar Galactica's ships fired tiny red missiles that, as it turns out, tend to get launched into the throats of children.

On December 31, 1978 a four year old boy in Atlanta aimed a Colonial Viper toy into his mouth and launched one of the projectile missiles, inadvertently choking himself to death. On January 11, Mattel issued a recall order for the Viper and three other vehicles. It also issued a missile mail-in for those who had had already purchased a missile-firing version of the toys. In exchange for the little red missiles, Mattel provided a Hot Wheels toys, "for the loss in play value." Mattel redesigned the vehicle line to have non-firing missiles.

The boy's death triggered a national outcry to remove projectiles from all toys. On March 23, the boy's parents sued Mattel. The judge presiding over the case singled out Star Wars space toys as the culprit (which upset Lucas very much.) The controversy had an impact on Kenner's Star Wars' toy line, as it delayed the shipment of its Boba Fett dolls. The action figure -- whose character would star in The Empire Strikes Back sequel -- was part of a mailaway offer on the backs of other Star Wars figurines. Although Boba Fett's original design and promotion included a rocket-firing backpack, this mechanism was removed from its design. No rocket-firing Boba Fett's ever rolled off the line, and only a handful of the unpainted prototypes exist.

xp I always wondered if Lite-Brite was a fire risk, but we didn't have one either and I've never actually seen one

“Magnets hold the bowel together, with the layering between them, causing the gut to rupture.”

whoa