What a home room looked like in the early 60’s
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Pretty cool!
Cool music, mini skirts, pretty girls and of course the downer VIETNAM
DeeDeeCues
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MurrayNevada
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Loving spouse needed to turn the living room into a pool room.
L.S. Dennis
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Good job!
You are so good, Kors!
We learn so much just playing around with things we enjoy doing -- just as with experimental pool practice sessions too, I guess.
Efren's unparalleled skills are largely attributable to his lifetime of near-scientific seeking, inventing, and adopting as all geniuses do.
As Willie once said: "Pool is physics learned by trial and error."
Arnaldo
I was alive for all of the 60s and 70s and I never saw one of those tables in any homes. I did see a nice 8 foot Brunswick that played great in a basement once, but most of the tables were the old Brunswicks from the 1920s
middleofnowhere
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A table like that would have been sold in a place like Sears. Tables like that were maybe $300.00 with honeycomb beds. (Remember those?)
Looks to me like that place hasn't been cleaned since the 50s - maybe not lived in. Dirt all over the walls, door, pool table leg, etc. - how do you get the sides of the stairs that dirty? Maybe it's an illusion in the photo...?
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I was a printer by trade, but sometimes I would do interior painting on the side for extra money and I remember doing a few homes in worse shape than that. One of the jobs I had , two brothers were giving their parents home a makeover for like their 50th anniversary. The boys had grown up in the house . I went to give them an estimate and the living room ceiling was actually covered with a layer of nicotine so thick ,it had dripped in 100s of places. The smell was disgusting and at the time I was smoking 2 or 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
They had sat on a couch in that room, both of them chain smoking for all their married lives watching tv. The place in this picture looks like Windsor Castle compared to that joint before I painted it. It actually looked pretty good when I was done. I had to coat the ceiling and walls with Bulls Eye Shellac, nothing else will cover something like that in my experience. I think it took 3 coats on the ceiling .
I think the picture was originally in a magazine, and the discoloration is from the paper they used .
middleofnowhere
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Those days Sears had in store financing. They gave it to anybody especially newlyweds. They would get them on the hook for years. 1950s & 60s was the beginning of people living in continus debt and it continues today.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
Judging from the original BW photo, I'd say they were painted, kind of a trim area, maybe a darker color to avoid scuffs and dirt look there.
Wasn't the stores fault. Buyer had to go for it. Like trying to blame the dealer for someone's drug/alcohol addiction.