Cool website: Seventies Design

Cars, fashion, film/tv, furniture....

eta: Maybe Hec or someone else older than me can tell me - was Barbarella a big deal when it came out, or is it only in retrospect that its awesomeness became clear?

eta²: Also, what was the deal with plastic sphere furniture? Was it to trap naked chicks in them?

eta³: The fact that house interiors don't look like this is almost as tragic as our current lack of jet-packs and flying cars: [link]

Ooh, ooh, just got email from the craigslist lady. Her buyer backed out of the washer/dryer. It's a Kenmore HE3, gas dryer, electric washer, front-loaders. These are good, right? Can't find specifics since it's a 2-yr-old model, but I think at $800 it's a killer deal.

I gotta figure out where I'm gonna get the upfront cash (c'mon, bank!) but I think I gotta go for it, right?

Maybe Hec or someone else older than me can tell me - was Barbarella a big deal when it came out, or is it only in retrospect that its awesomeness became clear?

It was a hit, but not huge. Sort of a millstone around Jane's feminist credentials early on. It wasn't a big midnight movie, but did good biz on the college circuit and took off with video.

Also, what was the deal with plastic sphere furniture? Was it to trap naked chicks in them?

I think they had invented some new plastic injected moulding process that allowed for that stuff.

Incidentally, Douglas Coupland is totally into plastic.

I dig this Habittrail for humans.

Aha! The Mad Men production notes at their website make a big stink about using items which are exactly period for spring of 1960.

But they're using IBM Selectric II typewriters. (Greatest typewriter of all time, incidentally. I used one constantly in the pre PC years.) The first Selectric wasn't on the market until 1961. And the Selectric II didn't come along until 1971.

Of course I looked this all up on Wikipedia and somebody else already noted...

In the TV series Mad Men, which is set in the year 1960, Selectric typewriters are featured prominently on the secretaries' desks, even though they weren't introduced until 1961.

Per the discussion of animals and beds: Baby IN bed, dog ON bed. And another.

My dogs get on top of the comforter. It's what they do.

See, that's what I meant, only illustrated, with cute babies and dogs.

(Hi Lori!)

Hey Lee! It was funny to come upon this discussion, only to have the perfect illustration.

It is perfect.

With Noah screaming his fool head off.