I bought a house (built in 1960) about three and a half years ago. The previous owner left behind a Sears Kenmore refrigerator, a Maytag clothes washer, and a Speed Queen dryer… all from the early 1970s. All of them work perfectly. Those appliances were manufactured when MADE IN AMERICA meant high quality and durability.
Our washer is more than 20 years old and we will be keeping it when we move to our next house. We will also be almost immediately be getting rid of the fridge in favor of some more almond colored fridge from the 80’s, because it will likely outlive us.
I've been an Authorized NuTone Service Center for almost 40 years. I've sold, installed and serviced thousands of new and existing Intercom Systems. We repair about 425 Systems each year adn I can tell you that Intercom Systems are not obsolete. Their popularity wained mostly becasue the manufacturers didn't keep up with modern technology. It's a simple fact that if you design a product that people want, they will buy it. Intercom Systems are rarely removed and often times it's less expensive to repair them than remove them. I find it interesting that you showed Systems from the lat 1950's through the mid 1960's - The hayday of equipment was in the mid 1980's throuigh the mid 2000's and most of those Syetms are still in use - Chris
When I was a kid my parents moved into a 70s built two story 4 bedroom home equipped with an intercom system. 15 years later in 1988 they had me rip out all the intercoms and patch the drywall because it was so outdated lol.
Interesting. Do you still use wired receivers or it's all over wifi? My country completely missed the wired intercom boom; in the 1990s we installed ethernet-connected intercoms, and now the business is completely dead owing to cheap wifi sets. Five euros apiece, no wires, no drilling. But no security guarantee. Who knows who can tap into them.
Yes, we had a modern system in our old house. It had a number pad and you could call any room in the house. The old ones were limited in that you could only call the base unit. You could also hook any music device up to it and each room could turn it on and off. The doorbell would also sound throughout the house and you could talk to whoever was at the front door from any room. Or you could mute everything and no one could bother you.
Think you missed the point he was trying to make. They were thing that were COMMON in houses and no longer are. Yea you WORK in that specific industry so you see more. But most people only see them in stores/schools/businesses. I haven't seen on in any house i have ever been inside of unless it was a big apartment complex and you needed to be let in
@@justinlawson4374This (perception of common or not) depends on location/region/country etc. I live in a city of over 20 million where "big" starts at 40-floor mark and of course here video intercoms are everywhere, albeit often our of order.
People and especially children would inevitably trip and hurt themselves, even die from sunken living rooms. There’s a reason why they don’t exist anymore.
@@Provocateur3 Boy, I'm with you on that one. Our laundry room is downstairs in our daylight basement, and I have to lug a heavy laundry basket up and down. Not at all convenient!
Thus brings back so many memories of the 70s and 80s. The first home my parents had built together was completed in July of 1976 and it had many things mentioned here. The several inch sunken living room (not a pit), the wood paneling in the family room. The shag carpet which was later replaced by sculpted in the mid 80s. The harvest gold appliances, flooring and wallpaper in the kitchen. All we need is some disco. My friend's house had the swinging doors into the kitchen and, what I called, the globule fireplace in the corner. We had a massive brick fireplace. What memories!
@@jimmyday9536you’ve got that right! My son just said the other day that they don’t seem to make cars in many colors anymore…just white, black and silver.
AMEN especially in these cookie cutter neighborhoods where they make you sign a contract preventing you from making any changes to exterior in the name of neighborhood aesthetics. Most likely made power hungry hoa members with an ego the size of Texas
I’m one of the few people that miss wood paneling. I thought it was cool. Gave the room warm. But when I was a kid, we only had light paneling, which made the room look brighter.
Fortunately you can always hang faux wood paneling on walls temporarily to get the feel for it, then take it down later when you're ready to move again or don't want it anymore. A lot of modern designs is made so you can customize things to your liking non permanently. Otherwise you were stuck with the deisgn and if you didn't like it.... you just had to forego the house entirely.
I owned a pretty older home in the 1980s with a milk door. AND I had a milk service that would deliver milk, eggs, cheese and other products once or twice a week. It was great and I was thankful that our milk door hadn't been removed by prior owners. I also had a swing door between the kitchen and dining room. It wasn't attached when we viewed the house or moved in, but we discovered it in the rafters of the garage (along with a beautiful leaded glass insert for the front door that had slight damage and had been removed and replaced with clear glass - the old, oak door was basically a frame and the whole thing was glass!). Anyway, we cleaned the swing door, painted it and hung it and I loved it!
@@xbubblehead The heart of New York city/LA where people expect to own their own private mansions.... THey never consider going out to rural parts where those "mansions" and "real homes" are very affordable.... Instead every 20 year old in Times Square needs their own personal town house to themselves..... it's called being realistic....
In 1973 when I was 4, we moved into a house for a couple of years in San Diego where we had a milk man that came once a week. He'd deliver milk, eggs, cheese, ice cream etc. With a family of 5 to take care of, my mom loved it.
I remember the milkman in the late fifties and early sixties. He would deliver chocolate milk if you so desired. I thought him to be mysterious, like Santa Claus. I once got out of bed very early and slyly peeked out the window to see him. He wore a white suit and a white hat.
@@latinforever LOL. I have similar memories. We lived in a little 2 bedroom ranch/bungalow on a hillside, with a somewhat long steep driveway down to the front of our house. I was often awake before anyone else and for some reason would hang out behind our couch, which was under a big picture window, until someone else got up. I recall watching the "mysterious milkman" making our delivery from that window. Not being far from the pacific ocean, early mornings were often pretty foggy, which definitely added to the mystic.
@@misslora3896 We had bay windows in the living room, and my mother had placed a couch in that recess. My best friend and I would hang out behind that couch. It was like our secret place. My mother did not approve of this behavior. We would also run around on the bluffs above the Mississippi. We would be gone for hours, playing army or talking about The Twilight Zone or whatever. We were about four when we started doing that.
My son 2 years ago built a dumb waiter for a customer of his . It means the owners don't have to carry food down two flights of stairs to their outdoor kitchen
We own a custom built home built in 2000. It has 2 pull out cutting boards in our large kitchen, a laundry chute, 2 large stone (gas) fireplaces, and a Murphy bed! Love the Murphy bed because the room then becomes our "library" when no in use, and then easily becomes a bedroom for guests.
We had a central vacuum system. A motor in the basement had outlets in each room. One got suction by inserting a long vacuum hose into whichever room needed cleaning. It still worked when the home was sold 30 years later.
That's what we had. I never knew anyone else that had one like it. It was noisy but pretty cool. My daddy liked unusual things and he liked to make things different for us. Our house was tiny but I loved it and it was full of love and sharing.
@ihave35cents95. In fact the thing that I like most about mine is that I barely hear it at all so that when I do my most thorough cleaning monthly and move all of my furniture into the center of the rooms so that I cal clean from ceiling to floor, clean the molding and baseboards, floors underneath where the furniture is and backs of the furniture I’m cleaning and using the attachments in quiet and don’t feel rushed because of noise.
Some of these should really still be used for their practical value! Particularly laundry chutes (if you have a basement or downstairs laundry room) and pull-out cutting boards. My current house (built in the 50's but renovated) has a pull-out cutting board and it's so helpful! My grandmother's house had a laundry chute which I obviously loved to play with by repeatedly sending my stuffed animals down and going down to the basement to retrieve them - but it was safe because it was mounted on the wall and was not tall enough or wide enough for me or my sibling to climb into (not that we would have lol). I'm also saddened by the persistence of "modern" design - because ever since the 1980's, this has just translated to bland and uniform colors and features that exist for their neutrality and resalability. Colorful kitchens, appliances, and conversation pits are so cool, fun, and a way to really make your space your own! I understand not using wallpaper as much since it's a tedious thing to clean/maintain and change, plus it's a mold risk, but colorful designs can be achieved in better ways through painting or installing real backsplashes. In general I think we should recognize the value of adding color and interesting designs to make our spaces our own if it's something we enjoy and are able to achieve. This is super long-winded, but I think this standard is enforced societally in a way that is a direct consequence of capitalism's need to push that aforementioned neutrality and uniformity for a number of reasons, but in part because of that sense of lack of permanence in any place one might be living in. Take "beige moms" for example - there's very real evidence that diversity of colors and designs are actually important to the development of young children's brains, and is even valuable to our mental health at any stage of life. My point is, even if you're renting, don't be afraid to make your space how you like it even if it's through hanging pictures and tapestries (gotta get that security deposit back) life is short and you deserve to enjoy your space even if it's temporary!
The house we moved into in 1951 had both a clothes chute and a milk chute (that's what we called the milk door). It was a two-story home with a full basement so the clothes chute was handy.
@@carlsaganlives4036 I still see a few colorful cars around, but not that many, especially bright yellow or orange ones. Mine is candy-apple red, and hubby's is bright yellow. Yeah, we love the colors. Constant blandness really isn't very uplifting.
@@carlsaganlives4036 You can get any color you want....just ask or go to a paint shop. Black, white and gray are the least expensive and most people don't care that much.... The problem with modern day is people are so cynical. they complain about how much better things were back then but do nothing about it, they expect everyone else to just magically make the world resemble the movies that were specifically framed to make the past look better than it really was. and people wonder why everything's sh8tty. It always was, just now the cynics have internet to air their sh8t out and not just hollywood.
We also called them kidney shaped pools. Unfortunately, we didn’t have one…nor did any of our neighbors. I’m totally glad I watched this, as we didn’t have any of them, and I haven’t cried yet today. I now have a reason to. 😒
Thank you. I worked for a company that installed swimming pools in the 1970s. They were called Kidney Shaped pools. This is the first time I've ever heard them called jelly bean pools.
The home that I grew up in (built in the 1920's) had a built in ice box in the back porch into the kitchen. One time when the refrigerator broke down for good my parents used it in place of a refrigerator until they were able to buy a new one.
My granddad built my house in 1949. I have a full, solid swing door between my kitchen and dining room. When I remodeled my house, I thought about taking it down, but decided against it. I’m glad I left it.
My grandparents had that too in their 1950s home. I loved it and have thought how convenient to have today because when we have dinner parties, the mess in the kitchen is right there! with the open modern architecture. I hate that.
@@rmac113 I watched lots of episodes in syndication as a kid in the 80’s. One of my favorite shows along with I dream of Jeannie and Gilligan’s Island. ☺️
And just as we had one in our arts and crafts house, our swinging door featured a kick-plate at the bottom so that you could open the door with your foot without marring the finish, given that your hands were carrying dishes.
My grandparents always left their swinging door open so that people wouldn’t get smacked in the face by someone coming in the other direction. There’s a reason why they don’t have those dumb doors anymore.
@@ALT-vz3jn And if all one cares about is practicality, then one doesn't need a sunken living room. But if one wants more charm and intimacy in their home decor, then a sunken living room is just the thing to provide it. It just depends on what one wants in one's home, and can enjoy.
You're probably more likely to see a Folding Bed Mattress in homes for guests these days than Murphy Beds. Not to mention there are beds where you pull out a secondary mattress and beds with storage areas. There's also Pod Beds.
When I was growing up we had a milk door and there was a door bell inside so the milkman could ring it to let my mom know that he had made a delivery. If he had ice cream (on Friday) he rang the doorbell and my mom made sure to be home to retrieve it and put it in the freezer immediately. When I became an adult and married we had avocado appliances in our first home and in the next house the appliances were harvest gold. I loooooved both colors.
I nominate: trash compactors, cold rooms, bathroom red lightbulb heaters, appliance garages, speakeasy doors, jalousie windows, door knockers, mailslots. I have an ironing board closet in my kitchen and a doorbell in my backyard entrance.
The segment with the milk doors showed a deleivery from Golden Gurnsey Dairy. My parents had home deleivery up into the late 60's. When we moved my mother to assisted living we found the file box that had every monthly statement (in chronological order). My sister's and i each kept the statement from the month of our birth.
I have not seen an ashtray in a private home for well over 35 years, they were commonplace in the 1960's and 1970's even in homes where there were no smokers, they were provided for guests.
I was born in 1971 lived in a house as follows. Avacado green stove, refrigerator, main bathroom, kitchen sink and siding. We had blue shag in living room, green shag in my room, red shag amd velvet walpaper in my parents room. Now just remember the appliances lasted longer than the new mexican garbage they make today so the house was like that long after i moved out in 1989. Lol
we had the intercom in the house we built, in 1984...had it in another house too, I think, but they were great....I could answer the front door while cooking in the kitchen, or call the kids to supper or have music going throughout the house, or check on the kids...I would have it again if I could
Yeah I remember my parents installed an intercom in one of our homes when I was a kid. it was super exciting to be able to talk to each other from anywhere using the intercom and we used it......Once..... and then just resorted to good old yelling. XD Frankly none of the houses are so big you can't hear someone scream when dinner's ready and most of the time, we didn't hear or notice the intercom when it was used. I recall my mom storming into my room once cause I didn't answer it to tell me food was ready. and we just slowly forgot about them. XD Still, they are nice to haves. ESPECIALLY in tall town houses....
Fireplaces are even sometimes converted into fireplace inserts due to being more efficient with heat. There are also gas powered fireplaces that are entirely enclosed.
I could use a dumbwaiter, for my laundry, and food. What I really want is a stove, with a pot roast/soup well, and refrigerator, with drawer shelves. Just think, 15-20 years from now, "modern farmhouse" will have gone the way of the Tiki bar, harvest gold appliances, and swing doors.
Every town house should have one by law........ I live in a 4 story town home that was just built and WHY I don't have a dumbwaiter I'll never know.... (there wasn't really room to put one granted but STILL....)
@@MarioMastar Our first home was a new construction 3 floor townhouse. Good thing I was only 23, even if I was 4 months pregnant, with the baby crushing up against my sciatic nerve, as he grew plump. I remember the pain, like it was 1 minute ago, and it's been almost 45 years! Walking up those steps, while waiting for Bell to come and install our phone, was awful! They came in handy, though, for getting my figure back.
@@muziklvr7776 Nah just for me honestly. put some beanbags in there and have a spot to just chill wtih some mood lights. Having other people around just ruins it. XD
When I was a kid, we would be sitting in the kitchen in the morning and all of a sudden the door would open up and it would be the milkman he would come right into our house and put it right into our refrigerator. No, he didn’t knock on the door. He just walked right in.
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By no means was popcorn ceiling used for noise reduction as it did little to nothing. Also, asbestos was banned in the 1970s. Pop corn ceilings were still widely used in homes all over US and Canada up until 2010.
Number 1 feature Missing in all modern homes being built to day is a FRONT PORCH. I also missed laundry chutes and completely despise open floor plans and can lighting. The home I currently live in built before 1920 has a front porch where you step up 4 feet to get onto it and then its 30 feet wide and 8 feet deep completely covered. A couple other things I miss........ A home with a mail slot on the house. A homes that have alley in behind it. I dont drag garbage to curb to have the cans sit there for 12 hours till I get off work. A home with a front yard then a sidewalk then more grass and then a raised curb. A home with the Garage in the back of the house with plenty of yard left.
Pretty much everything I want in a home, is listed in this video. You can still get wood paneling at the hardware store, love that stuff. Vertical Blinds are still sold. Heck we just installed ours a couple years ago to cover a sliding door that had no blinds over it. Never understood the fascination of not putting blinds or curtains on your windows. I always entertain the "call of the void" by looking in to uncovered windows imagining I'm a burglar. They always give me a chuckle when I see homeowners without window coverings.
Every fixer upper house I have purchased has had old appliances dating back to the 60's and 70's and everyone of them always worked perfectly. Man I wish I had not replaced some of them now.
We had a “sunken living room/conversation pit” in my parent’s first house. They were super fun for kids, but a weird use of space for adults, and pretty much every house I knew with them eventually converted them to a flat floor.
My house still has a milk door or as my nana called it the service box. Mine is on my basement stairs. People use the milk door for small package delivery now or mail delivery. Popcorn ceilings are only dangerous when you scrap them off. Asbestos, if there is the presence of it, is only dangerous if disturbed, it would be under layers of paint and well sealed from being a hazard. I wish I had a laundry chute and a dumb waiter to bring the laundry back upstairs. My grandma had a grandfather clock until her death in 2003. Pull out cutting boards are making a comeback, the property brothers have been installing them in some of their renovations. Fireplaces are great when there is a power outage or a bad snow or ice storm affecting the central heating system in the winter.
When we moved into my husband’s grandparents house, it had all harvest gold appliances in the kitchen. The bathroom was salmon, pink sink, toilet, and tub with ugly red carpet
I miss wood panelling. I always get nostalgic seeing these because it's always seen in the background of a family photo or in my case my birthdays as a young child.
Too young for the milk doors (Xennial), BUT we did have an intercom in the house. Ours had a built in radio, and an audio jack, so dad hooked up a small cd player to it as well (the main hub was in our kitchen, and dad added a flip down door to keep the cd player and a few cds stored there). Each of the bedrooms had an intercom, plus the downstairs hallway.
The term for the "huge stone" fireplaces is fieldstone, and the term for vertical blinds is Venetian blinds. Also, this list is missing Westminster doorbells, or at least doorbells that have hanging brass tubes and make a regal sound. You can still buy them but they're very niche so they're expensive.
I grow up in the ghetto in Brisbane Australia. We went to adelaide in 1999. We visited my mothers friend house which was a 2 storey mansion type house with intercom systems on the walls and the grinder in the sink. This was an amazing thing for me to see as a kid, and my brother jokingly ordered a cheese burger though the intercom systems.
0:25 my grandma bought the oldest house in Tavistock 120+ years old back in 2005 and when we came over for renovating it, she had a mechanized orange rusty elevator in her entrance room similar to that. Somehow, it still works to this very day even though she’s put her aquarium on it and never moved it in 19 years 😂
We had a popcorn ceiling in our first home. It had sparkles.. I guess the previous owners threw glitter in the mixtue?. We bought a waterbed ..The ceiling started to crack. Got rid of the waterbed but kept the platform. Had 6 drawers on both sides... And a huge headboard with lightning and several shelves... Kinda liked it.
I still have a glitter gun from the 70s in my shed . they arent electric you just hold it vertical to the ceiling crank it like a pencil sharpener messy as hell.
Vertical shades are still manufactured, i have them on my room's windows to eliminate the need of the combination of curtains and blinds above the heat radiator. Will order them for the top floor after the reconstruction works will be done.
We had tabletop intercoms from Radio Shack. One house we lived in had a milk door, but it was bricked over by the time we lived there. We had metal milk boxes. I babysat for some people who had a sunken living room.
My house was built in 1979. You can see where they plastered over the intercom holes. It also had oak paneling when we moved in but we painted over it. And we have a kidney shaped pool!
We have a 1928 home. It has a milk door. When we bought the house, we had no idea what it was for. LOL The house also has a door bell in the back yard. Oh yeah, delivery men didn't get to use the Front door. ROTFL Poor Amazon! My parent's 1970's home had a sunken living and cathedral ceilings, with a huge Valmonte diatomite stone fireplace. Gold carpets, harvest gold appliances. Floor to ceiling windows that let the cold in. Memories.
I grew up in a house in CA in the 70s that had a sunken family room with orange/brown carpet and dark wood paneling. The room also had popcorn ceiling but with an added touch of glitter so it looked like starlight in the room 😂😂
I remember having a milk box just outside the door which was insulated and could hold about 6 quart bottles. We used to have milk and bakery delivery trucks, and ice delivery for those who still had the actual "iceboxes" instead of refrigerators.
Every swiss household still has a milk door but it’s a box integrated into the letterbox. The size has to follow a certain standard defined by the post office. You can theoretically receive milk in there 😂
I prefer vertical blinds over horizontal blinds. Horizontal blinds are best for dirt and grease to collect on, are the biggest pains to clean, and bend or break more often.
My house was built in 1914 and until 10 years ago; it still had the cast iron coal chute hatch on the side of the house. I removed it and bricked it up.
I bought a house (built in 1960) about three and a half years ago. The previous owner left behind a Sears Kenmore refrigerator, a Maytag clothes washer, and a Speed Queen dryer… all from the early 1970s. All of them work perfectly. Those appliances were manufactured when MADE IN AMERICA meant high quality and durability.
Our washer is more than 20 years old and we will be keeping it when we move to our next house. We will also be almost immediately be getting rid of the fridge in favor of some more almond colored fridge from the 80’s, because it will likely outlive us.
Repair them when they break and keep them forever
Yep…appliances made and purchased today will be expired and in the junk yard 50 years from now.
And I bet they STILL work!
That’s what American made means quality craftsmanship and badass
I've been an Authorized NuTone Service Center for almost 40 years. I've sold, installed and serviced thousands of new and existing Intercom Systems. We repair about 425 Systems each year adn I can tell you that Intercom Systems are not obsolete. Their popularity wained mostly becasue the manufacturers didn't keep up with modern technology. It's a simple fact that if you design a product that people want, they will buy it. Intercom Systems are rarely removed and often times it's less expensive to repair them than remove them.
I find it interesting that you showed Systems from the lat 1950's through the mid 1960's - The hayday of equipment was in the mid 1980's throuigh the mid 2000's and most of those Syetms are still in use - Chris
When I was a kid my parents moved into a 70s built two story 4 bedroom home equipped with an intercom system. 15 years later in 1988 they had me rip out all the intercoms and patch the drywall because it was so outdated lol.
Interesting. Do you still use wired receivers or it's all over wifi? My country completely missed the wired intercom boom; in the 1990s we installed ethernet-connected intercoms, and now the business is completely dead owing to cheap wifi sets. Five euros apiece, no wires, no drilling. But no security guarantee. Who knows who can tap into them.
Yes, we had a modern system in our old house. It had a number pad and you could call any room in the house. The old ones were limited in that you could only call the base unit. You could also hook any music device up to it and each room could turn it on and off. The doorbell would also sound throughout the house and you could talk to whoever was at the front door from any room. Or you could mute everything and no one could bother you.
Think you missed the point he was trying to make. They were thing that were COMMON in houses and no longer are. Yea you WORK in that specific industry so you see more. But most people only see them in stores/schools/businesses. I haven't seen on in any house i have ever been inside of unless it was a big apartment complex and you needed to be let in
@@justinlawson4374This (perception of common or not) depends on location/region/country etc. I live in a city of over 20 million where "big" starts at 40-floor mark and of course here video intercoms are everywhere, albeit often our of order.
I always wanted a sunken living room when I was a kid. I thought they looked so cool. I still kind of like them.
After a couple of cocktails, everyone is tripping.
People and especially children would inevitably trip and hurt themselves, even die from sunken living rooms. There’s a reason why they don’t exist anymore.
@@Kinann I see what you did there
Fall in one once you'll rethink it
Pay attention and you be fine my in-laws have a old 1950s house in Iowa and it has a sunken living room I would love me one in my house
The wood paneling is now on the floors.
and it gets greyer with every passing year
I miss the pull out cutting board and I LOVED my laundry chute.
I use my cutting board every day.
@@rosemeccia9411:
Bring back laundry chutes.
I love laundry chutes. The only thing one has to be careful of is over stuffing. A good yardstick is good for fixing that.
A laundry chute is cool for a 2 story house.
@@Provocateur3 Boy, I'm with you on that one. Our laundry room is downstairs in our daylight basement, and I have to lug a heavy laundry basket up and down. Not at all convenient!
I love my wood paneling. It reminds me of my childhood.
Thus brings back so many memories of the 70s and 80s. The first home my parents had built together was completed in July of 1976 and it had many things mentioned here. The several inch sunken living room (not a pit), the wood paneling in the family room. The shag carpet which was later replaced by sculpted in the mid 80s. The harvest gold appliances, flooring and wallpaper in the kitchen. All we need is some disco. My friend's house had the swinging doors into the kitchen and, what I called, the globule fireplace in the corner. We had a massive brick fireplace. What memories!
The number one thing that faded from homes... CHARM in design.
Totally agree
Also color. Today, everything from cars to kitchen appliances are simply various shades of gray.
@@jimmyday9536you’ve got that right! My son just said the other day that they don’t seem to make cars in many colors anymore…just white, black and silver.
Wood panelling was overdone. With every vertical surface covered in these cheap and cheesy panels, it became overwhelming and nauseating.
AMEN especially in these cookie cutter neighborhoods where they make you sign a contract preventing you from making any changes to exterior in the name of neighborhood aesthetics. Most likely made power hungry hoa members with an ego the size of Texas
I miss all of these things! Love it when I still see houses with these features!
I’m one of the few people that miss wood paneling. I thought it was cool. Gave the room warm. But when I was a kid, we only had light paneling, which made the room look brighter.
Fortunately you can always hang faux wood paneling on walls temporarily to get the feel for it, then take it down later when you're ready to move again or don't want it anymore. A lot of modern designs is made so you can customize things to your liking non permanently. Otherwise you were stuck with the deisgn and if you didn't like it.... you just had to forego the house entirely.
The only time, I saw someone gliding through a swinging door, was Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke...it was magical!
Our house built in 1973, had the harvest gold fridge, oven and dishwasher. We still live there, and still have the gold oven. Also have a sunken den.
You are so so lucky
Thanks for the Memories of the Past that we no longer
see around anymore thank you.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
I owned a pretty older home in the 1980s with a milk door. AND I had a milk service that would deliver milk, eggs, cheese and other products once or twice a week. It was great and I was thankful that our milk door hadn't been removed by prior owners.
I also had a swing door between the kitchen and dining room. It wasn't attached when we viewed the house or moved in, but we discovered it in the rafters of the garage (along with a beautiful leaded glass insert for the front door that had slight damage and had been removed and replaced with clear glass - the old, oak door was basically a frame and the whole thing was glass!). Anyway, we cleaned the swing door, painted it and hung it and I loved it!
Some older homes had pull-down ironing boards; cutting boards were always pull-out.
Murphy beds are making a come back.
We couldn't get anyone to take our murphy bed when we renovated last year. I loved it, but we needed to move.
Most people are poor again and forced to live in a "cubical" rather than real homes.
@@nunya___ Where is it that most people live in cubicles?
@@xbubblehead The heart of New York city/LA where people expect to own their own private mansions.... THey never consider going out to rural parts where those "mansions" and "real homes" are very affordable.... Instead every 20 year old in Times Square needs their own personal town house to themselves..... it's called being realistic....
In 1973 when I was 4, we moved into a house for a couple of years in San Diego where we had a milk man that came once a week. He'd deliver milk, eggs, cheese, ice cream etc. With a family of 5 to take care of, my mom loved it.
I remember the milkman in the late fifties and early sixties. He would deliver chocolate milk if you so desired. I thought him to be mysterious, like Santa Claus. I once got out of bed very early and slyly peeked out the window to see him. He wore a white suit and a white hat.
@@latinforever LOL. I have similar memories. We lived in a little 2 bedroom ranch/bungalow on a hillside, with a somewhat long steep driveway down to the front of our house. I was often awake before anyone else and for some reason would hang out behind our couch, which was under a big picture window, until someone else got up. I recall watching the "mysterious milkman" making our delivery from that window. Not being far from the pacific ocean, early mornings were often pretty foggy, which definitely added to the mystic.
@@misslora3896 We had bay windows in the living room, and my mother had placed a couch in that recess. My best friend and I would hang out behind that couch. It was like our secret place. My mother did not approve of this behavior. We would also run around on the bluffs above the Mississippi. We would be gone for hours, playing army or talking about The Twilight Zone or whatever. We were about four when we started doing that.
Lots of moms loved the milkmen….
@@EBTROUBLE LOL. I hear the mailman was pretty popular too.
My son 2 years ago built a dumb waiter for a customer of his . It means the owners don't have to carry food down two flights of stairs to their outdoor kitchen
We own a custom built home built in 2000. It has 2 pull out cutting boards in our large kitchen, a laundry chute, 2 large stone (gas) fireplaces, and a Murphy bed! Love the Murphy bed because the room then becomes our "library" when no in use, and then easily becomes a bedroom for guests.
We had a central vacuum system. A motor in the basement had outlets in each room. One got suction by inserting a long vacuum hose into whichever room needed cleaning. It still worked when the home was sold 30 years later.
Well, those never went out of style
That's what we had. I never knew anyone else that had one like it. It was noisy but pretty cool. My daddy liked unusual things and he liked to make things different for us. Our house was tiny but I loved it and it was full of love and sharing.
@@amyloring1648 these days they are pretty quiet. But yeah, they used to be loud if they were in the house.
@ihave35cents95. In fact the thing that I like most about mine is that I barely hear it at all so that when I do my most thorough cleaning monthly and move all of my furniture into the center of the rooms so that I cal clean from ceiling to floor, clean the molding and baseboards, floors underneath where the furniture is and backs of the furniture I’m cleaning and using the attachments in quiet and don’t feel rushed because of noise.
@@LlyleHunter I agree, but if you want better performance by yourself a miele
It's interesting that "popcorn" ceilings look nothing like popcorn, and exactly like cottage cheese.
Cottage cheese lol
I never heard of jelly bean pools. They were commonly called the kidney-shaped pools.
I knew it as a peanut shaped pool
Some of these should really still be used for their practical value! Particularly laundry chutes (if you have a basement or downstairs laundry room) and pull-out cutting boards. My current house (built in the 50's but renovated) has a pull-out cutting board and it's so helpful! My grandmother's house had a laundry chute which I obviously loved to play with by repeatedly sending my stuffed animals down and going down to the basement to retrieve them - but it was safe because it was mounted on the wall and was not tall enough or wide enough for me or my sibling to climb into (not that we would have lol). I'm also saddened by the persistence of "modern" design - because ever since the 1980's, this has just translated to bland and uniform colors and features that exist for their neutrality and resalability. Colorful kitchens, appliances, and conversation pits are so cool, fun, and a way to really make your space your own! I understand not using wallpaper as much since it's a tedious thing to clean/maintain and change, plus it's a mold risk, but colorful designs can be achieved in better ways through painting or installing real backsplashes. In general I think we should recognize the value of adding color and interesting designs to make our spaces our own if it's something we enjoy and are able to achieve. This is super long-winded, but I think this standard is enforced societally in a way that is a direct consequence of capitalism's need to push that aforementioned neutrality and uniformity for a number of reasons, but in part because of that sense of lack of permanence in any place one might be living in. Take "beige moms" for example - there's very real evidence that diversity of colors and designs are actually important to the development of young children's brains, and is even valuable to our mental health at any stage of life. My point is, even if you're renting, don't be afraid to make your space how you like it even if it's through hanging pictures and tapestries (gotta get that security deposit back) life is short and you deserve to enjoy your space even if it's temporary!
Same with 'cars' today - black, white, or grey sir?
The house we moved into in 1951 had both a clothes chute and a milk chute (that's what we called the milk door). It was a two-story home with a full basement so the clothes chute was handy.
@@carlsaganlives4036 I still see a few colorful cars around, but not that many, especially bright yellow or orange ones. Mine is candy-apple red, and hubby's is bright yellow. Yeah, we love the colors. Constant blandness really isn't very uplifting.
@@carlsaganlives4036 You can get any color you want....just ask or go to a paint shop. Black, white and gray are the least expensive and most people don't care that much....
The problem with modern day is people are so cynical. they complain about how much better things were back then but do nothing about it, they expect everyone else to just magically make the world resemble the movies that were specifically framed to make the past look better than it really was. and people wonder why everything's sh8tty. It always was, just now the cynics have internet to air their sh8t out and not just hollywood.
You For got the Padded Toilet Seat !
Those were horrible.
They're great in a cold house.
@@thistlemoon1definitely awesome when you inly had single pane windows and the thermostat was set at 65 all winter(thanks Carter)
Love my padded toilet seats.
We called them kidney shaped pools. The cool, rich kids had them. Sadly, that was not us. Lol
We also called them kidney shaped pools. Unfortunately, we didn’t have one…nor did any of our neighbors.
I’m totally glad I watched this, as we didn’t have any of them, and I haven’t cried yet today. I now have a reason to. 😒
that is the architectural name. Any cad program that has one will call it a kidney pool.
Thank you. I worked for a company that installed swimming pools in the 1970s. They were called Kidney Shaped pools. This is the first time I've ever heard them called jelly bean pools.
I've always heard kidney shaped, never jelly bean shaped.
Very fun to skateboard in
I got em all in my house except an elevator including the telephone booth cut out in the hallway. It was built in 1920.
I was born in 1980 and grew up in an old house it’s no big problem with me that’s what I know.
I have a fold down ironing board in my laundry room that I refer to as my Murphy Board
The home that I grew up in (built in the 1920's) had a built in ice box in the back porch into the kitchen. One time when the refrigerator broke down for good my parents used it in place of a refrigerator until they were able to buy a new one.
My granddad built my house in 1949. I have a full, solid swing door between my kitchen and dining room. When I remodeled my house, I thought about taking it down, but decided against it. I’m glad I left it.
My grandparents had that too in their 1950s home. I loved it and have thought how convenient to have today because when we have dinner parties, the mess in the kitchen is right there! with the open modern architecture. I hate that.
Watch Bewitched. Always had the swinging door
@@rmac113 I watched lots of episodes in syndication as a kid in the 80’s. One of my favorite shows along with I dream of Jeannie and Gilligan’s Island. ☺️
And just as we had one in our arts and crafts house, our swinging door featured a kick-plate at the bottom so that you could open the door with your foot without marring the finish, given that your hands were carrying dishes.
My grandparents always left their swinging door open so that people wouldn’t get smacked in the face by someone coming in the other direction. There’s a reason why they don’t have those dumb doors anymore.
Still love the idea of sunken living room
Me too. I remember them well.
They’re impractical.
Me, too!
@@ALT-vz3jn And if all one cares about is practicality, then one doesn't need a sunken living room. But if one wants more charm and intimacy in their home decor, then a sunken living room is just the thing to provide it. It just depends on what one wants in one's home, and can enjoy.
I wonder if people filled them in somehow
My grandmother has a grandfather clock. Can hear at nights and could tell what time it was
This was really great, thank you for sharing it. God Bless You & stay safe.
I still like vertical blinds.
Flap Flap Flap. No thanks.
I still adore Mid-century architecture!
Most people do, that's why everything MCM is very expensive now.
Build solid and of good quality. None of this ticky-tacky we see, today.
You're probably more likely to see a Folding Bed Mattress in homes for guests these days than Murphy Beds.
Not to mention there are beds where you pull out a secondary mattress and beds with storage areas.
There's also Pod Beds.
IKEA sells them. Similar to a trundle bed.
When I was growing up we had a milk door and there was a door bell inside so the milkman could ring it to let my mom know that he had made a delivery. If he had ice cream (on Friday) he rang the doorbell and my mom made sure to be home to retrieve it and put it in the freezer immediately. When I became an adult and married we had avocado appliances in our first home and in the next house the appliances were harvest gold. I loooooved both colors.
Those popcorn ceilings were delicious 😋
I nominate: trash compactors, cold rooms, bathroom red lightbulb heaters, appliance garages, speakeasy doors, jalousie windows, door knockers, mailslots. I have an ironing board closet in my kitchen and a doorbell in my backyard entrance.
Oh, I miss those overhead bathroom heaters
The segment with the milk doors showed a deleivery from Golden Gurnsey Dairy. My parents had home deleivery up into the late 60's. When we moved my mother to assisted living we found the file box that had every monthly statement (in chronological order). My sister's and i each kept the statement from the month of our birth.
Before refrigerators, people used ice boxes. Supplied with large chunk of ice delivered by the ice man. Also stored food in cellars.
I would love to be able to have an ice house and a nice big root cellar..
I have not seen an ashtray in a private home for well over 35 years, they were commonplace in the 1960's and 1970's even in homes where there were no smokers, they were provided for guests.
My parents never smoked, and we had lots of glass ashtrays for guests when they had company or parties. This was when I was little (1970s).
I was born in 1971 lived in a house as follows. Avacado green stove, refrigerator, main bathroom, kitchen sink and siding. We had blue shag in living room, green shag in my room, red shag amd velvet walpaper in my parents room. Now just remember the appliances lasted longer than the new mexican garbage they make today so the house was like that long after i moved out in 1989. Lol
Vertical blinds were a pain. Hated them.
Cooper Brown was another choice of kitchen appliance. We had Avocado Green in our kitchen. My friend had Harvest Gold.
Avacado green here, and matching carpet! My mim even found a bean bag chair in matching cilor! Now those were yhe bomb as a kid!
we had the intercom in the house we built, in 1984...had it in another house too, I think, but they were great....I could answer the front door while cooking in the kitchen, or call the kids to supper or have music going throughout the house, or check on the kids...I would have it again if I could
Yeah I remember my parents installed an intercom in one of our homes when I was a kid. it was super exciting to be able to talk to each other from anywhere using the intercom and we used it......Once..... and then just resorted to good old yelling. XD Frankly none of the houses are so big you can't hear someone scream when dinner's ready and most of the time, we didn't hear or notice the intercom when it was used. I recall my mom storming into my room once cause I didn't answer it to tell me food was ready. and we just slowly forgot about them. XD Still, they are nice to haves. ESPECIALLY in tall town houses....
Fireplaces are even sometimes converted into fireplace inserts due to being more efficient with heat. There are also gas powered fireplaces that are entirely enclosed.
Pretty much everyone I know, including my self still have vertical blinds on patio doors.
Curtains here.... grandmother was as a self made seamstress so we had beautiful hand made curtains with all the flair
I think the vertical blinds fell out of favor because they were very common in apartments.
@@Denniss7420 i don't really like blinds on patio doors. But I hate curtains even more.
I could use a dumbwaiter, for my laundry, and food. What I really want is a stove, with a pot roast/soup well, and refrigerator, with drawer shelves.
Just think, 15-20 years from now, "modern farmhouse" will have gone the way of the Tiki bar, harvest gold appliances, and swing doors.
I would like one for my parents attic since I’m the current dumbwaiter lol!
Every town house should have one by law........ I live in a 4 story town home that was just built and WHY I don't have a dumbwaiter I'll never know.... (there wasn't really room to put one granted but STILL....)
@@MarioMastar Our first home was a new construction 3 floor townhouse. Good thing I was only 23, even if I was 4 months pregnant, with the baby crushing up against my sciatic nerve, as he grew plump. I remember the pain, like it was 1 minute ago, and it's been almost 45 years! Walking up those steps, while waiting for Bell to come and install our phone, was awful! They came in handy, though, for getting my figure back.
I think we should bring back sunken living rooms!
No just no
Nobody talks to each other anymore.
@@muziklvr7776 Nah just for me honestly. put some beanbags in there and have a spot to just chill wtih some mood lights. Having other people around just ruins it. XD
When I was a kid, we would be sitting in the kitchen in the morning and all of a sudden the door would open up and it would be the milkman he would come right into our house and put it right into our refrigerator. No, he didn’t knock on the door. He just walked right in.
Were you that charming family in Chappelle's neighborhood?
Cool.
No, just an extremely small town
I still have a dumb waiter and milk door in my 1906 house.
We need to bring “Milk Doors” back for UPS and FEDEX deliveries.
I always really liked sunken living rooms they just look cool to me.
A cool feature many homes used to have was kids that move out before the age of 30. Wouldn't it be cool to go back to that?
Encourage the economy to shift back to affordability! I would like to not work 70 hrs between 2 jobs
Exactly. I don't think that they want to be there anymore than the parents do
@sargethepup2301
@@sargethepup2301 Degreed jobs pay just fine. Who's problem is that ?
@@sargethepup2301They stay home because they have not grown up and their boomer or gen-x parents have spoiled them and won't throw them out.
@@sargethepup2301Let me guess.. You only have a HS diploma. That has been insufficient for years.
I build Custom Tiki bars... Any size , Any configuration . Fully loaded or basic features , LED lights , Bluetooth , bottle refrigerators , slide out sinks , AC outlets . Compact design , modular , can be passed through a 30" door and reassembled . Tiki grass with Woodgrain features . Two to ten or twelve seating capacity.... Southern New England... Delivery and set up included , depending on location .
People don’t entertain at home anymore.
Another home feature that faded into history: Two parents.
And kids with common sense!
@thegeminishome8438 "Common Sense" is an oxymoron.
What's your point, not enough kids being raised in unhappy homes these days? Or too many women able to leave a POS?
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By no means was popcorn ceiling used for noise reduction as it did little to nothing. Also, asbestos was banned in the 1970s. Pop corn ceilings were still widely used in homes all over US and Canada up until 2010.
I have a Grandfather clock today and love it.
Number 1 feature Missing in all modern homes being built to day is a FRONT PORCH.
I also missed laundry chutes and completely despise open floor plans and can lighting. The home I currently live in built before 1920 has a front porch where you step up 4 feet to get onto it and then its 30 feet wide and 8 feet deep completely covered.
A couple other things I miss........
A home with a mail slot on the house.
A homes that have alley in behind it. I dont drag garbage to curb to have the cans sit there for 12 hours till I get off work.
A home with a front yard then a sidewalk then more grass and then a raised curb.
A home with the Garage in the back of the house with plenty of yard left.
Pretty much everything I want in a home, is listed in this video. You can still get wood paneling at the hardware store, love that stuff. Vertical Blinds are still sold. Heck we just installed ours a couple years ago to cover a sliding door that had no blinds over it. Never understood the fascination of not putting blinds or curtains on your windows. I always entertain the "call of the void" by looking in to uncovered windows imagining I'm a burglar. They always give me a chuckle when I see homeowners without window coverings.
Every fixer upper house I have purchased has had old appliances dating back to the 60's and 70's and everyone of them always worked perfectly. Man I wish I had not replaced some of them now.
Never heard of pull down cutting boards- we had pullout cutting boards. Kidney-shaped pools not jelly bean shaped pools!
We had a “sunken living room/conversation pit” in my parent’s first house. They were super fun for kids, but a weird use of space for adults, and pretty much every house I knew with them eventually converted them to a flat floor.
My house still has a milk door or as my nana called it the service box. Mine is on my basement stairs. People use the milk door for small package delivery now or mail delivery.
Popcorn ceilings are only dangerous when you scrap them off. Asbestos, if there is the presence of it, is only dangerous if disturbed, it would be under layers of paint and well sealed from being a hazard.
I wish I had a laundry chute and a dumb waiter to bring the laundry back upstairs.
My grandma had a grandfather clock until her death in 2003.
Pull out cutting boards are making a comeback, the property brothers have been installing them in some of their renovations.
Fireplaces are great when there is a power outage or a bad snow or ice storm affecting the central heating system in the winter.
When we moved into my husband’s grandparents house, it had all harvest gold appliances in the kitchen. The bathroom was salmon, pink sink, toilet, and tub with ugly red carpet
I miss wood panelling. I always get nostalgic seeing these because it's always seen in the background of a family photo or in my case my birthdays as a young child.
Many of those shag examples aren't shag at all and back in the seventies when we were going to buy a pool they called that shape a kidney shaped pool.
I love wood paneling and swing doors in kitchens.
Hi-fi systems are a rare sight in modern homes.
Too young for the milk doors (Xennial), BUT we did have an intercom in the house. Ours had a built in radio, and an audio jack, so dad hooked up a small cd player to it as well (the main hub was in our kitchen, and dad added a flip down door to keep the cd player and a few cds stored there).
Each of the bedrooms had an intercom, plus the downstairs hallway.
There were brown appliances as well, at the same time as green & gold.
How about the piano? 😁
The term for the "huge stone" fireplaces is fieldstone, and the term for vertical blinds is Venetian blinds. Also, this list is missing Westminster doorbells, or at least doorbells that have hanging brass tubes and make a regal sound. You can still buy them but they're very niche so they're expensive.
There is a difference between a vertical blind and a Venetian blind though
I grow up in the ghetto in Brisbane Australia. We went to adelaide in 1999. We visited my mothers friend house which was a 2 storey mansion type house with intercom systems on the walls and the grinder in the sink.
This was an amazing thing for me to see as a kid, and my brother jokingly ordered a cheese burger though the intercom systems.
0:25 my grandma bought the oldest house in Tavistock 120+ years old back in 2005 and when we came over for renovating it, she had a mechanized orange rusty elevator in her entrance room similar to that. Somehow, it still works to this very day even though she’s put her aquarium on it and never moved it in 19 years 😂
I miss these Old Home features!
I remember so many of these things from the home Ingre up in! My mother refused to ever give up her wood paneling. 😂
We still have vertical blinds and are practical for us.
Nothing takes their place! Rollup blinds offer no privacy!
We had a popcorn ceiling in our first home. It had sparkles.. I guess the previous owners threw glitter in the mixtue?. We bought a waterbed ..The ceiling started to crack. Got rid of the waterbed but kept the platform. Had 6 drawers on both sides... And a huge headboard with lightning and several shelves... Kinda liked it.
We had one too. The glitter was applied after the ceiling was sprayed and still wet so the glitter stuck to the paint.
I still have a glitter gun from the 70s in my shed . they arent electric you just hold it vertical to the ceiling crank it like a pencil sharpener messy as hell.
You had _lightning_ in your headboard? Sounds dangerous.
Vertical shades are still manufactured, i have them on my room's windows to eliminate the need of the combination of curtains and blinds above the heat radiator.
Will order them for the top floor after the reconstruction works will be done.
We had tabletop intercoms from Radio Shack. One house we lived in had a milk door, but it was bricked over by the time we lived there. We had metal milk boxes. I babysat for some people who had a sunken living room.
My house was built in 1979. You can see where they plastered over the intercom holes. It also had oak paneling when we moved in but we painted over it. And we have a kidney shaped pool!
7:52 yeah , I'm sure they were really concerned with cultural appropriation in the 70s 🙄
I thought the same
We have a 1928 home. It has a milk door. When we bought the house, we had no idea what it was for. LOL The house also has a door bell in the back yard. Oh yeah, delivery men didn't get to use the Front door. ROTFL Poor Amazon! My parent's 1970's home had a sunken living and cathedral ceilings, with a huge Valmonte diatomite stone fireplace. Gold carpets, harvest gold appliances. Floor to ceiling windows that let the cold in. Memories.
My grandmother left me her grandfather clock!
Our home on the farm had avocado green appliances
When I got married, ours was harvest gold
We still have vertical blinds. They look great!
My aunt and uncle had a murphy bed in their family room. We loved sleepovers at their hours.
I grew up in a house in CA in the 70s that had a sunken family room with orange/brown carpet and dark wood paneling. The room also had popcorn ceiling but with an added touch of glitter so it looked like starlight in the room 😂😂
My Grandmother had an intercom like those except it even had a cassette deck built into it!
Just had a Murphy Bed installed in my studio condo in 2022. I’m pretty sure this is still on trend in cities like New York. Just a hunch.
0:18 The house I grew up in had that NuTone system! What a flashback
I remember having a milk box just outside the door which was insulated and could hold about 6 quart bottles. We used to have milk and bakery delivery trucks, and ice delivery for those who still had the actual "iceboxes" instead of refrigerators.
Every swiss household still has a milk door but it’s a box integrated into the letterbox. The size has to follow a certain standard defined by the post office. You can theoretically receive milk in there 😂
I prefer vertical blinds over horizontal blinds. Horizontal blinds are best for dirt and grease to collect on, are the biggest pains to clean, and bend or break more often.
Vertical blinds make the room look like clinic or a dentist's office waiting room.
My house was built in 1914 and until 10 years ago; it still had the cast iron coal chute hatch on the side of the house. I removed it and bricked it up.
Murphy Beds made a resurgence during the Covid lockdown. So, they haven't exactly fallen out of style.
I enjoy this video.
I still have a harvest green bathtub.. porcelain on steel.. I wouldn't trade it for any other tub!