Older Daughter came into the living room the other day, laughing her head off. It seems she had been scrolling around the website Realtor.com and stumbled across a listing so extraordinary, she had to share it. She was right. These pix are too good not to share. (Click here to see the rest, though be aware realty listings come and go.)
In the town of Ramona, California, there is a time capsule for sale.
From the outside, the house looks quite "meh." Nothing notable about it, but not bad.
But the inside is a whole different story. Can we say "Seventies"?
It will take a special buyer to fall in love with this place, and a little part of me hopes that whoever gets it will keep the décor intact.
Those of us "of a certain age" remember the decorating madness that plagued the 1970s. Remember when everything in a room had to match?
And never underestimate the cultural impact of the infamous green shag carpeting.
Green, let the records show, is my favorite color. But lime-green plastered all over the house is a bit much.
Kudos to whoever decorated this house to begin with fifty years ago, and never saw fit to alter those decisions.
But yowza, give me earth tones any day of the week.
Never thought I'd see Ramona Ca in one of your posts! I grew up in that town, my father and brothers live there still. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
ReplyDeleteExcept for the decor and being at the top of a hill, doesn't look too different from my place built in 1985. Weird roof line, spiral staircase, even have a tree growing in my foyer.
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You took me back 50 years. Thank you, it was nice being in my 20s again. 'Preciate it!
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I started looking it reminded me of the Brady Bunch. Granted it may have more to do w/ the staircase.
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I wouldn’t buy it but I think that’s pretty cool! I mean “groovy”.
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing. What would be even more amazing is if someone bought it and preserved it, or even did a podcast living in the Late 1960's/1970's.
ReplyDeleteNo you can't say 70's, but you can certainly scream it. I didn't like it then and remarkably I still don't. After that it really toned down and now it seems industrial and higher tech in design. Wonder what the future will bring? Those green carpets were in a word, gag.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the walk down memory lane. My family home (built 1961) had that very same color carpet. And I had a bedspread that looked surprisingly similar. Cheers,
ReplyDeleteSJ now in California
Someone used to live near my mom that maintained his 70's home interior for 50 years. Somehow a movie wound up having segments filmed there. It was very pristine and not overwhelmingly green. Why not?
ReplyDeletePeople re-do and refinance, and often make money when it flips.
But I think my mom's friend was smart. If it's not broke, don't fix it. That house was probably worth just as much as the others around him. Especially since so many expect to re-do things anyway.
I briefly in the mid-80s lived in a duplex with that acid green shag carpet. It was passé even then, but the rent was affordable. Growing up in the 70s, the colors in our neck of the woods were avocado, burnt orange, and harvest gold. My mother detested avocado and liked the oranges and golds. Fortunately,, her innate good taste kept our house from being totally kitsch, but some of my friends’ houses…ouch.
ReplyDeleteI love it. My sofa would fit right in. I still have that sofa with original fabric. It has lived under a velvet cover in less vivid colors than that house.
ReplyDeleteNote re actual "First Thanksgiving in America: 1619 a.d.", observed at Berkeley Hundred, along the James River, about 35-miles upriver from 1607 Jamestown, and about 15-miles below 1611 Citie of Henricus. Immediately upon landing at Berkeley, the voyagers, in awed silence, walked to a nearby knoll, knelt, and THE PRAYER was then read aloud: "We ordaine that this day of our shipps arrival, at the place assigned for plantacon, in the land of Virginia, shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Allmightie God". Please note this was over a year BEFORE the Mayflower Pilgrims even began their voyage to "the northern parts of Virginia" (see the Mayflower Compact). Today, annually, this First Thanksgiving is re-enacted at Berkeley, attended by over 1,000 visitors, with numerous craft booths, educational displays, food vendors (especially smoked turkey legs), and with a huge line dance led by the Chickahominy Tribal Dancers to complete the ceremonies. This re-enactment has been officially recognized by the Virginia General Assembly in 2022 a.d. (House Joint Resolution No. 288, commending our Henricus Colledge History Cruise), and in 2024 a.d, (House Joint Resolution No. 339, commending our Seaplane Flyby saluting The Prayer). The 1619 voyagers were puritan Anglicans, of the London-headquartered Virginia Company, extending the ancient 1215/1225 Magna Carta system of Liberty Under Law into North America. Acknowledgement is given that the 1621 Mayflower Thanksgiving was the first such in New England, but it was not the "FIRST" in America. Blessings! -- Steven C. Smith, Chancellor, Henricus Colledge (1619)r, America's First College, gmail henricus.colledge.1619@gmail.com. 25 Nov 2024.
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