In Minden NE they have a museum that seems like maybe it’s just a bunch of junk I’ve paid to see. Then I came across sealed off living rooms across the decades and this one creeped me out because I felt for sure I’d been in it before.
My parents and grandparents had spaces a lot like this.
That’s an upper middle class 80s living room then. All of those electronics and furniture are from the 1980s. An actual living room in the 1980s from most middle class and lower had random pieces from the 70s and before mixed in.
Was going to say this is 80s-99 as pieces slowly get replaced. No way people started with this all fresh
not sure I would call it upper middle class.
How many 1980s non-upper middle class families do you know that can buy an entire living room furniture set, giant 26" or 29" color console TV, and Hi-fi stereo at the same time? Thats what this picture would represent.
No body bought them all at the same time. Likely start with couch, coffee table and tv for the typical house. Likely had it before the kids came.
No body bought them all at the same time. Likely start with couch, coffee table and tv for the typical house.
Right, except all of the pieces in the photo represent the design choices within a few years of each other at most. The stuff in the early 80s looked more like the 70s and the stuff in the late 80s looks more like the early 90s. The stuff we’re seeing here represents a period of maybe 3 years apart. Is your idea that a non-upper middle class family could buy all of this within 2 or 3 years replacing their entire living room?
Likely had it before the kids came.
Parents in the 1970s and 1980s were having kids in their early and mid 20. Its extremely unlikely a non-upper middle class family be able to buy all this stuff in their early 20s.
yeah I don’t know where you grew up but I think you really think stuff looked way different over too small a period of time. Totally looks like many middle class friends growing up as did my house. not the same furniture but it would totally look like someones house. As far as I know no one bought all the stuff at the same time but I suppose its possible. I mean if you feel janitors are upper middle class then fine.
True enough. My memories are from the late 80s.
Everything in the 80s was Hunter Green, burgundy, beige, taupe and brass accents, except brass was actually yellow aluminum.
I miss hunter green, I remember it in the early 90s too
Makes me feel safe! I like it.
I love this comment!
Pioneer Village? Yeah, nothing quite like going through that place and seeing stuff you remember, right beside stuff from what feels like ancient history.
That’s it!
For the life of me I couldn’t remember it’s name. Totally worth going through once. My kids who didn’t grow up with that stuff enjoyed their time as well. My son in particular who is a bit of an electronics nerd.
Damn, it’s a lot more than just a few rooms of furniture. If I get a chance to go on another road trip, I might add this to the list.
Yeah, it’s pretty great and worth it if you ever find yourself in that part of Nebraska.
Carpets not brown enough and there’s no brown McDonalds ashtray on the coffee table. And where’s that chair with the super short fine bristles that changes color when you wipe it in different directions?
My mom used to have that coffee table.
My aunt had it too. Twinsies!
I’m pretty sure I know at least one person who still does.
I remember that chair. I had one in orange until around 2018
Lasted longer than most modern furniture lasts. We have a couch in the basement that just need to be reupholstered and it’ll be great that my mom bought in the mid 80s.
We’re on our third set of great room furniture since my wife and I got married 20+ years ago. And we’re looking to replace some of it now.
We had that carpet texture, but it was teal. Under that carpet, and throughout the house, was a beautiful hardwood floor that had been covered for 40+ years. I saw it for the second time when we sold the house about eight years ago. The first time was when the carpet was laid down when I was very young. I remember running and sliding on the wood floor in my socks.
When we moved to the States in the early 90s we bought furniture just like this from garage sales in LA lol. Blast from the past.
But if you think about it, can you still smell the furniture? For whatever reason, I think I still can. Not like modern stuff at all.
It’s the cigarettes.
Bro! You’re not wrong.
I have a painting in my office wrapped as tightly as possible until I can have it restored. It sat over my late grandmother’s rocking chair where she smoked like a chimney. I made the mistake of touching the painting to pick it up and the cigarette tar was wet like jelly. She died nearly 25 years ago and the painting is still wet in that shit!
🤢🤮🤮🤮
Yes!
I just refinished an old, solid-wood nightstand. Probably at least 50 years old. Sanding off the old finish down to bare wood gave a distinct old cigarette smell. Not like an ashtray, but old and mild.
