In every 70s US home ever

An electric organ, with many multicolored switches/presets.

pong

^was wondering when we would get to that

Another bar accoutrement: wave form light thingy that is basically two dimensional analog of a lava lamp

stray beans from beanbag stuck in shag carpet
Yahtzee
Sears catalog
poker chip carousel
Erma Bombeck books
crocheted afghan blanket (squares pattern)

reminds me to post
Dogs Playing Poker painting

TV Guide (although not in my home)

cb radio
"Bless This Mess" kneedlepoint sign

Habitrail
aquarium
many items featuring Peanuts characters for no particular reason

Orange sinks
Bathroom wallpaper with old-timey advertisements

partially completed rug hooking
terrariums
sand candles

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Noxzema
The World Book
Penthouse (hidden from view)
Skateboarder magazine
Guinness Book of World Records
Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock
10-speed bikes
Life magazine
tobacco pipe (dad)
wallpaper
store catalogs
Yellow Pages
Peter Frampton Comes Alive
Hardy Boys
Rugby shirts
Chemistry set
Creem
Circus

Sea Monkeys

Anacin
The Game Of Life
Toughskins
Ferns (all relegated to one room, commonly referred to as "the ferm room")

Garanimals

(in warm regions) jalousie windows

tang
jello
r2d2 figurine

Mentioned Air Hockey but should also have mentioned Nok Hockey.

electric football

We used to have Desiderata framed on the back of the actual toilet door. As a kid I was richly amused by the opening line, “Go placidly amid the noise and haste.”

Born in '63 so the 70s were totally my decade, and we had almost none of this stuff.

Marimekko prints and bedding

one of the things from the '70s that is still popular!

Almost all of these presuppose a middle income household that has at least one filled bookshelf.

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:

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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