In every 70s US home ever

Wow

damn, that's cool!

Encyclopedias - Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia, sold through local grocery stores. A couple of volumes released each month, so it took a year to get the whole set.

We had Pears 'Cyclopedia. Not sure if that's a uk thing tho.

F&Ws seconded.

speaking of TV, All In the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Saturday CBS prime time lineup was the original Must-See TV

DIdn't quite remember Dick Van Dyke being on The Carol Burnett Show as a replacement for Harvey Korman for a few months before he himself left and was replaced by Steve Lawrence and Ken Berry (who I of course do remember)

Gotta have a copy of Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Our Bodies, Ourselves

Good one

hanging beads in a doorframe acting as a room separator

alternatively, strings of corks

Bead door curtain already mentioned by YMP upthread, although I like the way you worded it, but cork curtain is a valuable new post, Tracer, thanks.

Light gauge fishing line to string them together. You're welcome.

Macrame, god’s eyes, table centrepiece made of wicker basket/varnished loaf of bread/dried or cloth flowers/wheat sheaves, Hollie Hobby stuff for girls, metallic abstract wallpaper in the bathroom above the tile line, the hexagonal side table in the living room with random upholstery offcuts stored there just in case.

Old steamer trunk used as side table

We had one as the TV stand but my mom ran our house like it was 1910 including the furnishings (minus the tv).

We had at least two steamer trunks, one of which was a TV stand. I think people thought they were 'valuable' but they're really not, even the really old ones

Any good flea market in the '70s had steamer trunks for sale

Big Wheel tricycle

Oh yeah. We've covered Lite Brite and the Holly Hobby oven, maybe add Stretch Armstrong?

A huge hi fi stereo that was the size of a buffet
A buffet

seemed like Love Story was really big for everyone I knew when I was a kid

as a topic of conversation

I have been stringing together glass beads over the years and have made two beaded glass curtains!

Love Story hadn’t been mentioned yet? Thank you for addressing this glaring omission.

In school we often saw the male bonding version of Love Story known as Brian’s Song. And sometimes even the parent-child version, Death Be Not Proud.

Have we discussed roller skates? Ice skates?

Not sure, don’t think so. How about crappy old school low-tech skateboards?

living in a cold weather place, ice skating was a part of growing up for me. my older brother was into skiing but I wasn't that brave and my father and little sister and I went ice skating a lot

I do remember Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, which had some kind of intense moment with a sawbones.

Think I preferred The Three Lives of Thomasina myself.

j/k I was a fan of both

Hans Brinker impressed me as a kid

The was also Bang the Drum Slowly in the One’s Dying, the Other Isn’t category.

There was

Some discussion over here: School Daze! What Did Your Teachers Ruin For You And/Or More Positive Reflections On Required Reading

crappy skateboards have come back with a vengeance. though the peak was probably three years ago or so? way “cooler” than normal skateboards

Really? With metals wheels?

Metal

i dunno about all that chief

https://www.skatedeluxe.com/blog/en/wiki/skateboarding/history-of-skateboarding/

HE 1970S
The only consistent thing is change and so it came to a point where everything changed for skateboarding. Frank Nasworthy’s invention of urethane wheels in 1972 made it possible for skateboarding to come back. Nasworthy started the company Cadillac Wheels and with the new material it was possible to ride smoother, faster and more comfortable. A variety of disciplines such as freestyle, downhill and slalom experienced a real high point. New magazines like the “Skateboarder Magazine” from 1975 were published and new events were launched. In 1976, the first artificially created skate park was inaugurated and new parks emerged with new elements such as vertical ramps and kickers.

https://skateboardingmagazine.com/the-evolution-of-skateboard-wheels/

yeah i’m not talking about metal wheels i’m talking about “penny boards”, long boards etc

also this trend of people riding with their front foot sticking lengthwise along the board and barely bending their knees, like they’re posing for a photo or something

Oh shit my first skateboard was TOTALLY a penny board!! I didn't know that was what they were called. It was a dirty jade green? I think my dad got it out of the community "take" pile at the transfer station, ie someone had thrown it away in about 1988 or so.

In every 70s US restaurant ever

Pardon the digression but that’s the woman who made an awesome documentary about Boyce and Hart a few years ago which I don’t think has had an official release, due to music clearance issues I assume.

She is some kind of genius so digression welcomed.

Yes. She’d be a celebrity in a just world.

https://www.shorpy.com/files/no-pest-strip.jpg

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