Archive for Furniture
Hound Family Photos from the 1970s part 2
In today’s first photo my Dad is doing something with the fireplace. But there’s that chrome chair and the metal ship from yesterday. We had two of those shields. Notice the striped bean bag chair on the right and those funky shoes right in the middle of the floor.
Here’s Mom and Dad, Easter morning 1972. Yes, that’s what my Mom wore to our Southern Baptist Church that morning. I’ll have more Easter morning photos.
This was our favorite chair, we called it the donut chair. This sister finally broke it when she was in her 20s. I’m guessing this was 1976. Look at that lamp in the background, that purplish textured thing is a lamp. And there’s that metal ship again!
This looks like me holding a cousin in 1973. I posted it simply for the wonderful yellow vinyl chair. I think was at my Uncle’s house in Dallas.
Hound Family Photos from the 1970s
Here’s the beginning of some family photos of mine from the 1970s. I’ve got a shoebox full that my Mom just gave me to scan. Please note, these are not FOUND Photos, these are photos of my family; people I know and love. I’ll have more this week and again around Halloween and Christmas.
First up, here’s my Uncle Bill and his daughter with my Mom and us kids in June 1972. Mom had quite the look going on. My Uncle Bill looked a lot like Burt Reynolds. In fact, once at a business dinner, someone told the waiter that he was Burt’s brother. Apparently you could see the rumor spread across the restaurant as people whispered from one table to the next.
One of the joys of these are looking at the backgrounds. The first pic is at my Grandparents. They still have that table in the same spot and one chair still in the living room. The other chair is in the garage, Grandad couldn’t bear to part with it after sitting in it for 40 years. The seat is completely caved in. In the 2nd one you see some kind of groovy stand with a metal ship on it and the chrome chair that my sister still has. It has been reupholstered though. And I still have that Animal Stamps book. And I’m wearing my Big Mac t-shirt! I loved that thing! My birthdays, 1974, 1975 and 1977 (the one with the striped socks).
Next are just some pics of various places we lived and stuff we had. My room in 1972. I wondered why someone decided I needed a panda bear poster, but I had it for a long time. Next two are this cool table we had that my Dad built from giant spools and auto wheels. After we got a real table, that was outside for many years, painted red.
They’re Going To Paint My Workplace and Take Away the 1970s Orange!
The university library building I work in was built in 1979, and the color scheme was almost outdated then I think. Finally, they are going to paint it, 31 years later. I took some photos of the current plate, knowing that it’s going to be beige, or putty, or some other exciting color. It’s a kind of cloth wallpaper so you can’t just slap a coat of paint on it I guess and that’s why it’s taken so long. That and we had the same Dean for 22 years. Anyway, the orange is pretty obvious (and overwhelming) but there is also yellow on the pillars and some of the walls. Any brown signs you see, know that they used to be orange with white lettering. Only the first floor will be done, so the red and blue carpeting and other interesting things will still be around on other floors. You can see a few other pictures at the end of my UFO review.
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My Dad’s Place is STUFFED with Stuff
I went to my Dad’s antique store in Texas during Spring Break. We had a great time, but I thought I’d show you some of his place. He has a three story old turkey processing plant. 26,000 square feet. And it is FULL! And I mean FULL! The first floor is a store, the second is the workshop, and they live on the third. The rooms on the third floor aren’t so much rooms as cubicles built with antique showcases, wardrobes, bookshelves, and such. Here’s a few photos of part of the floor they live on. I’ll be showing some pics of smaller items in the next week or so. Somehow, I missed getting a shot of the outside of his building, but you can see it at woodenheart.net. This is REAL retro. I really do need a better camera though.
Futuristic Retro Laptop Table and Chair Ball Thing?
I was looking for some info for purchases for my place of employment and ran across this super, super cool table for laptops, but could be a writing desk as well. The guys at Spy Vibe should dig this. Found at Tuvie.
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