Comments on: Americana Living Room, Somewhere, USA, 1967

By: Celine

Celine — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:36:27 +0000

This is obviously a “set-up” and he was expecting a (shorter) and more traditional girl.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:37:18 +0000

My grandfather still has a lamp with a shade like that!

By: Sue Winters

Sue Winters — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:22:50 +0000

Now I know what happened to my dress !!
Of course,Joanna, you have to match your shoes with your purse !! The Fashion Police were out there !!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:19:09 +0000

That dress looks like she may have ordered it from the Sears Roebuck 1967 Fall Big Book. This was the same year that I had bright yellow patent leather mary janes and a matching pocketbook.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:23:07 +0000

I love the past. Always looking for pictures or stories. thank you.

By: Susan Shen

Susan Shen — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:41:12 +0000

I remember those lamps with the shades! Ours were in kelly green and white. Also remember
the dress the young woman is wearing and ashtrays – remember them? (No longer in my home
or in any of my friends’ homes). It’s so wonderful to see all this and know that I really didn’t dream those beautiful days in
LA in the fifties and early sixties.

By: sara

sara — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:39:14 +0000

i was born in 1967. but i remember, when i was about 6, my parents were retiring/replacing their early american furniture and my dad burned the floral print couch in the back driveway.

By: Cynnamon

Cynnamon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:28:19 +0000

When I was a kid, this kind of lampshade scared me. It still does!

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:31:31 +0000

I miss the convention of matching shoes and handbags *sigh* I think the lampshade will make a mighty fun party hat, later in the evening.
Cheers!

By: craig johnston

craig johnston — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:55:04 +0000

My great uncle currently lives in a house with a room very much the same. His bay window is also adorned with the classic combo of sheers with heavy draperies (that word seems much weightier than ‘curtains’) to the side. And much like the home-owners in this pic, he has never once, in all his years of owning the house, openned the sheers to let in sunlight, or closed the draperies to block it. They have remained in the same position in which they were hung way back when.