In every 70s US home ever

My friends also had on their bedroom doors and maybe some other doors as well.

let's see if this works

https://wacky-packages.fandom.com/wiki/Hamburger_Blecher?file=03_Hamburger_Blecher.jpg

well, this will take you to an image of hamburger belcher: https://wacky-packages.fandom.com/wiki/Hamburger_Blecher?file=03_Hamburger_Blecher.jpg

sloppy joes

Manwich

A stash of unsold Grit newspapers that some gullible kid thought would earn him enough money to buy a spy camera.

fuck I tried to sell Grit and sold one to my aunt

Jesus, it still exists: DIY CHIGGER BITE RELIEF

https://www.grit.com/

Wow many things on this thread are extremely familiar. There's just one mention of the big chunky remote controls, but we had one of these. We actually inherited it when my grandparents were killed in a car accident — before that we just had a little black and white TV, but then they died and we got their color TV with an actual remote control. It confirmed my sense that my grandparents (who lived far away and I rarely saw) lived lives of great luxury.

https://compote.slate.com/images/eacaab7b-bdc7-4097-8bab-74107d1c0707.jpg

NB: YMP was the first to mention Hamburger Helper and Rice-A-Rona upthread, but this is the kind of list thread where multiple entries are fine, especially since they are usually recontextualized.

Lol at typo

Wow many things on this thread are extremely familiar. There's just one mention of the big chunky remote controls, but we had one of these. We actually inherited it when my grandparents were killed in a car accident — before that we just had a little black and white TV, but then they died and we got their color TV with an actual remote control. It confirmed my sense that my grandparents (who lived far away and I rarely saw) lived lives of great luxury.

https://compote.slate.com/images/eacaab7b-bdc7-4097-8bab-74107d1c0707.jpg

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 9 September 2022 23:40 (yesterday) link

OMG, these things - I actually had a thrilling rush of sensory memories at that picture. My grandparents had one too.

The ka-CHUNK was very satisfying.

I probably posted something like this upthread, but the original design of the remote (Zenith’s Space Command, specifically) always fascinated me. Tiny hammers hit tiny sound-producing rods!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Electronics#Remote_controls

Lead engineer Robert Adler then suggested that ultrasonic sound be used as a trigger mechanism. This was produced in the hand held unit by mechanically struck aluminum rods of carefully constructed dimensions—a receiver in the television responded to the different frequencies this action produced. Enough audible noise was produced by pressing the buttons that consumers began calling remote controls "clickers". The miniaturization of electronics meant that, eventually, the sounds were produced in the remote unit electronically; however, the operating principle remained in use until the 1980s, when it was superseded by the infrared light system.

Yes, you mentioned on the second day of this thread’s existence, as a follow-up to your massive console TV post.

Well that technology background was certainly new! And totally unknown to me.

Yes. The new information was very welcome.

Again, repeat posts are not frowned upon in this thread, they are welcomed. Which in itself is a repeat post.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence

Macrame

Macrame mucho

Ha.

Johnny Mathis albums. Although I think they were borrowed, at least in our house.

God’s Eyes.

Hi suzy, was hoping you would be back to contribute some more.

I feel like, even if there is some small thing that we may have missed on this thread, we still have all the basic DNA required to clone one of these houses if needed.

That mustard yellow rubbermaid pitcher with the white top that twists. Saw one on an episode of The Americans set in 81 or 82. Must have been a holdover from the 70s...

^Good one!

Great pick. I actually saw one at a yard sale a couple months ago... Strong Proustian Madeleine moment --- my entire 80s childhood, we drank orange juice (reconstituted from a cardboard tube of frozen concentrate) out of one of those. We had a blue-ish one too, used by my Mom to rinse shampoo from our hair when we were really little.

Tupperware parties and Avon ladies.

Fiddle Faddle and/or Screaming Yellow Zonkers

The coffee table book "Gnomes"

We had “Gnomes.” But what about B. Kliban books, maybe they were too counter-cultural for every ‘70s home, but we had all of them.

Oh man we definitely had Rubbermaid pitchers, I think including a yellow one. Also, juice concentrate! I was just thinking about the other day, how it seems to have disappeared. That was all we drank, frozen Minute Maid OJ and lemonade.

Here's an article from Vice about the decline of fro-jay: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x5nzq/nobody-gives-a-damn-about-frozen-oj-anymore

And B Kliban, wow, this whole thread is like visiting my childhood home. My dad is a big comics/cartoon fan, so we had everything from classic Little Lulu to R. Crumb, including a shelf of Kliban.

When I was a kid my mom used to take my brother and me with her to visit some adult friends of hers who didn't have any kids, but they did have a gigantic coffee table book that had about 40 years' worth of Dick Tracy anthologized in it and I used to sit there and read entire plotlines that must have taken months to play out a day at a time in the 1930s or whenever.

watched Klute again and the brown, rust, yellow, olive and beige car colors of the early 70s look really good in retrospect

I guess by yellow I mean harvest gold

In every early '90s home ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0uz8JD9Aw

In every 70s grandparents' home ever:

Candy that only grandmothers buy. In my case, it's nonpareils in covered glass candy dishes, and Chiclets and Necco Wafers in the purse.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/2019-12-27_15_44_29_A_packet_of_Christmas_Nonpareils_produced_by_Hollabaugh_Brothers%2C_Incorporated_in_the_Dulles_section_of_Sterling%2C_Loudoun_County%2C_Virginia.jpg/640px-thumbnail.jpg

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence

cologne bottle shaped like a green glass car

Stored in the attic or basement, let's not forget tents with metal poles! A joy to set up and take down for backyard slumber parties.

Slip ‘n’ Slide

In every early '90s home ever:

If I’m not mistaken, one of the ingredients is petroleum. Just plain petroleum. Ingredient list reads something like, “water, high fructose corn syrup, orange flavoring, petroleum, xanthan gum…”

In Every Miniature 70s Home Ever

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1355608872556376064.html

Oh man, that's fantastic. Versus a lot of mid-century house imagery, it's very much in the spirit of this thread, in capturing the junky, cluttered and texturally mismatched quality that these spaces often had in reality.

Also, I'm aware that building miniature houses of this kind has grown from a niche hobby into a whole Thing (we even watched a few episodes of a pretty badly-made competition show about them), but this seems like an especially excellent showcase of craft and attention to detail. Look at all that stuff! Look at those rugs! Love it.

The Lincoln Log house constitutes a dollhouse within a dollhouse. Dollhouseception.

Perky Pat's summer house

@pplayouts

Love the pictures of the soup can wandering the house

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGQ2OTlmMzAtZTAyNy00Zjc2LTg1ZDgtZDgyZTM5MWMyYTljXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTkyNDA3NDY@._V1_.jpg

should've been this guy