1950's Bungalow
January 16, 2009 6:45 PM Subscribe
Frozen in 1955 This awesome 50's bungalow, located on a quiet, cul-de-sac street on the Hill neighborhood in St. Louis Missouri, has seriously never been lived in... at least on the main level. This ONE-OWNER home was resided only in the lower level during their stay here, so the main level has been frozen in time and perfectly preserved.
This ad itself seems pretty out of date. Who the hell is going to spend 129,000 on a collectors item of a house (especially in this economy)?
posted by azarbayejani at 6:55 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by azarbayejani at 6:55 PM on January 16, 2009
That kitchen reminds me of mine did when we moved in. What a nightmare ours turned out to be. About 3 square inches of counterspace and 50 year old stove that a) was 50% wider than it needed to be and b) only had 2 working burners. To be fair, this kitchen seems to have significantly more space than ours.
posted by DU at 6:56 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by DU at 6:56 PM on January 16, 2009
Who the hell is going to spend 129,000 on a collectors item of a house (especially in this economy)?
129K? Jesus, I could afford that. Here in Vancouver, you'd be lucky to get a dumpster to live in for that money.
posted by jokeefe at 6:58 PM on January 16, 2009 [10 favorites]
129K? Jesus, I could afford that. Here in Vancouver, you'd be lucky to get a dumpster to live in for that money.
posted by jokeefe at 6:58 PM on January 16, 2009 [10 favorites]
Reminds me of a couple friends' homes when I was a kid. The living rooms had sofas and lamps covered in protective clear plastic wrap - and the rooms were NOT TO BE ENTERED. EVER.
posted by davebush at 6:58 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by davebush at 6:58 PM on January 16, 2009
Awesome beyond words, but WHY would the owner hide in the basement, preserving the upstairs in perfect Pleasantville glory?
posted by mrstrotsky at 6:59 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by mrstrotsky at 6:59 PM on January 16, 2009
This looks like all the same shit they sell at Ikea.
posted by Roman Graves at 7:03 PM on January 16, 2009 [5 favorites]
posted by Roman Graves at 7:03 PM on January 16, 2009 [5 favorites]
They don't show any photos of the downstairs living quarters right away.
Maybe it was a sanctuary covering the site of worship of the unspeakable ones?
posted by mrzarquon at 7:03 PM on January 16, 2009
Maybe it was a sanctuary covering the site of worship of the unspeakable ones?
posted by mrzarquon at 7:03 PM on January 16, 2009
was that a digital clock on the stove?
posted by munchingzombie at 7:06 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by munchingzombie at 7:06 PM on January 16, 2009
Wow, that's like, two subdivisions over from me. 129k may sound high, but that neighborhood's kinda funny. Real proud, still very ethnically Italian...most of the fire hydrants are painted with the colors of the Italian flag.
posted by notsnot at 7:08 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by notsnot at 7:08 PM on January 16, 2009
Ah, the good old days. In the big museum just down the road from where I am right now, one of the most popular exhibits is the 1950 house.
posted by LeLiLo at 7:08 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by LeLiLo at 7:08 PM on January 16, 2009
WHY would the owner hide in the basement, preserving the upstairs in perfect Pleasantville glory?
I'm imagining Sloth from "The Goonies" in a jaunty 1950's sweater vest.
posted by Mayor Curley at 7:08 PM on January 16, 2009 [3 favorites]
I'm imagining Sloth from "The Goonies" in a jaunty 1950's sweater vest.
posted by Mayor Curley at 7:08 PM on January 16, 2009 [3 favorites]
Here in Vancouver, you'd be lucky to get a dumpster to live in for that money.
sure, it's cheap for a house, but it's being marketed as if it's some kind of miracle that everything from the 50s has survived.
posted by azarbayejani at 7:09 PM on January 16, 2009
sure, it's cheap for a house, but it's being marketed as if it's some kind of miracle that everything from the 50s has survived.
posted by azarbayejani at 7:09 PM on January 16, 2009
My grandma already did this.
posted by cashman at 7:12 PM on January 16, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by cashman at 7:12 PM on January 16, 2009 [3 favorites]
Spiffy house, but that zoomy-picture widget thing is giving me motion sickness.
posted by jonmc at 7:12 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by jonmc at 7:12 PM on January 16, 2009
My grandfather built a house and did this. I kind of suspect it was because his wife had passed away, and that level, for a brief time, was her domain. It was kind of eerie and cool to wander around "up" there, amongst all the bowls of wax fruit and honey colored furniture.
Then we'd go back downstairs and watch Grandpap play dominoes and shout at wrestlers on his b/w tv.
posted by HopperFan at 7:18 PM on January 16, 2009
Then we'd go back downstairs and watch Grandpap play dominoes and shout at wrestlers on his b/w tv.
posted by HopperFan at 7:18 PM on January 16, 2009
There's cool things in St. Louis? Really, wow. I need to get out more. Also, Missouri still proves itself to be absurdly cheap when it comes to cost of living.
posted by lizarrd at 7:22 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by lizarrd at 7:22 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
Eh, it's okay. When i was shopping for a new house last year, I told my realtor I was looking for something... different. She said, "you want different? Let me show you this house..."
The house in question was built in 1962, and it was apparently a BIG swinger house at the time. It had a round living room, complete with paneling and wet bar, with a built in stereo system complete with an 8-track and turntable that piped music to all of the rooms in the house. The bar in the kitchen was seriously awesome - it was shaped like all funky with crazy circular cutouts in it, and the carpet in the house was all swirly cuts of different carpet blended together to form some freak-out design for serious party people.
The bathroom? All gold. All of it. Gold specks in the mirror, gold tile, gold tub, gold ceiling fixtures, gold toilet. And the bedroom - the bedroom. It had a swimming pool. In the bedroom. shaped like a heart. There were also mirrors shaped like nude female figures lined up on each wall - and mirrors in a swirled design on the ceiling. And, as if you could top that, there were some majorly heavy-duty hooks in the ceiling above the bed. My wife said, "what in the world..." and I replied, "oh you know, in case you might want to hang a ... hammock."
But the BEST room was the video room. A multi-level room with a projection booth, stadium seating for about 12 people, and an ancient popcorn machine in the corner.
It was awesome in its own weirdness, and you could tell that the people who lived there LOVED their house - it looked a bit like the above pictures.... brand new. I ultimately decided it was simply TOO weird for me.
posted by bradth27 at 7:26 PM on January 16, 2009 [24 favorites]
The house in question was built in 1962, and it was apparently a BIG swinger house at the time. It had a round living room, complete with paneling and wet bar, with a built in stereo system complete with an 8-track and turntable that piped music to all of the rooms in the house. The bar in the kitchen was seriously awesome - it was shaped like all funky with crazy circular cutouts in it, and the carpet in the house was all swirly cuts of different carpet blended together to form some freak-out design for serious party people.
The bathroom? All gold. All of it. Gold specks in the mirror, gold tile, gold tub, gold ceiling fixtures, gold toilet. And the bedroom - the bedroom. It had a swimming pool. In the bedroom. shaped like a heart. There were also mirrors shaped like nude female figures lined up on each wall - and mirrors in a swirled design on the ceiling. And, as if you could top that, there were some majorly heavy-duty hooks in the ceiling above the bed. My wife said, "what in the world..." and I replied, "oh you know, in case you might want to hang a ... hammock."
But the BEST room was the video room. A multi-level room with a projection booth, stadium seating for about 12 people, and an ancient popcorn machine in the corner.
It was awesome in its own weirdness, and you could tell that the people who lived there LOVED their house - it looked a bit like the above pictures.... brand new. I ultimately decided it was simply TOO weird for me.
posted by bradth27 at 7:26 PM on January 16, 2009 [24 favorites]
why furnish it if you're going to live downstairs? does not compute.
Looks like a billion houses in Milwaukee.
posted by desjardins at 7:27 PM on January 16, 2009
Looks like a billion houses in Milwaukee.
posted by desjardins at 7:27 PM on January 16, 2009
Thing is, the actual 50s sucked. The modern 1950s, where our slacks are made of materials that don't turn to soup in the rain, and there's a MacBook on the Formica table, they're another matter entirely.
posted by bonaldi at 7:28 PM on January 16, 2009 [6 favorites]
posted by bonaldi at 7:28 PM on January 16, 2009 [6 favorites]
The stove shown in 27 is not in the kitchen; it's definitely different than the one in 26, which I'm pretty sure does have 21st Century knobs and a digital clock. Do stoves expire?
posted by knile at 7:32 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by knile at 7:32 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
. I kind of suspect it was because his wife had passed away, and that level, for a brief time, was her domain
I was just about to remark that this is basically my great-uncle's house - but he died in 1995 and then the house was sold. Until that day it was essentially this - and for the same reason. His wife had died twenty-some years before, and he never changed a thing. Everything was kept neat as a pin, just as she left it, and the only new things added to the house were the groceries in the kitchen.
posted by Miko at 7:36 PM on January 16, 2009
I was just about to remark that this is basically my great-uncle's house - but he died in 1995 and then the house was sold. Until that day it was essentially this - and for the same reason. His wife had died twenty-some years before, and he never changed a thing. Everything was kept neat as a pin, just as she left it, and the only new things added to the house were the groceries in the kitchen.
posted by Miko at 7:36 PM on January 16, 2009
Also, I can only dream of a $129K house - I could actually afford that. No such luck around here; humble houses of this type start at nearly double that price.
posted by Miko at 7:37 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by Miko at 7:37 PM on January 16, 2009
bradth27, I just bought a house a few days ago and now you make me want to sell it and find this magical sounding pad.
posted by LastOfHisKind at 7:41 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by LastOfHisKind at 7:41 PM on January 16, 2009
knile: Do stoves expire?
Not if my grandmother's stove is anything to go by. She has a stove (in fact, a house) that looks pretty much exactly like these pictures. And I'll tell you what: that stove still produces some mean hot chocolate.
posted by neznamy at 7:50 PM on January 16, 2009
Not if my grandmother's stove is anything to go by. She has a stove (in fact, a house) that looks pretty much exactly like these pictures. And I'll tell you what: that stove still produces some mean hot chocolate.
posted by neznamy at 7:50 PM on January 16, 2009
Are Brendan Fraser and Christopher Walken going to be dropping in all the time?
/bummed that someone else grabbed the Pleasantville reference
posted by mecran01 at 7:59 PM on January 16, 2009
/bummed that someone else grabbed the Pleasantville reference
posted by mecran01 at 7:59 PM on January 16, 2009
I see your 50s house and raise you a 70s house.
posted by scodger at 8:03 PM on January 16, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by scodger at 8:03 PM on January 16, 2009 [2 favorites]
I lived in Minneapolis for a short period of time. I was going to rent this house from a neighbor after his mom passed away that was about two block from where I was staying. When he took me to see it, it was like this place but with all of the knickknacks and doodads a home gets from habitation. His mother, the former owner, had passed away in 1990, about ten years before, and everything was essentially left in pristine condition. The best part was waiting for me in the basement where there was a perfect little tiki hut bar in the corner made out of bamboo. There were pink flamingos on the wall and a little palm-thatched roof over the three barstools. There were even leis behind the counter to put on and the real tiki and coconut shell glasses to serve drinks in. It was all original. Too bad I lost my job and had to leave MN before I got a chance to live there.
posted by Foam Pants at 8:06 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by Foam Pants at 8:06 PM on January 16, 2009
That is so cool. I love places that are like going back in time. This is very much a major part of the enjoyment of living in Hell's Kitchen or of travel to certain countries like India, seeing what life was like "back then", really feeling what is like, touch, sight, sound, smell, taste and all.
The mystery of the perfect beauty of this little house is quite intriguing.
Parts of the Bronx are frozen in time, like Arthur Avenue. Lots of places in NYC are like that, Canal Street, Astoria, City Island. It's wonderful to have a sense of the past and the present.
I was dying to share this here on the blue but didn't think it made a good enough front page post. So I'm adding it to this thread:
Shop untouched since 1960s. "An old-fashioned Lancashire corner shop and ice cream parlour has been discovered untouched for 40 years...when they got inside they discovered original cigarette adverts, magazines, ice cream spoons and sweet jars as they were left when owners moved out an estimated 40 years ago."
posted by nickyskye at 8:06 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
The mystery of the perfect beauty of this little house is quite intriguing.
Parts of the Bronx are frozen in time, like Arthur Avenue. Lots of places in NYC are like that, Canal Street, Astoria, City Island. It's wonderful to have a sense of the past and the present.
I was dying to share this here on the blue but didn't think it made a good enough front page post. So I'm adding it to this thread:
Shop untouched since 1960s. "An old-fashioned Lancashire corner shop and ice cream parlour has been discovered untouched for 40 years...when they got inside they discovered original cigarette adverts, magazines, ice cream spoons and sweet jars as they were left when owners moved out an estimated 40 years ago."
posted by nickyskye at 8:06 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
Reminds me of this story about a grocery store sealed up in 1952, which was chatted about on the internets and much discussed in the history museum world.
Shortly after 9/11, I remember hearing a very odd story about how the area underneath the Twin Towers had been exposed, revealing a long-sealed Woolworth Store along a disused and sealed-off subway track. Supposedly all the items were still on shelves and the store was untouched. Having found no further account of this story I've concluded it was urban legend, and even the circumstances of its telling are part of the chaotic swirl of 9/11 information and misinformation in my mind, but I recall the fascination of the frozen-in-amber idea and a distinct longing to see it myself. It is such a tempting fantasy to be able to witness the past, exactly as it was, physically at the very least.
posted by Miko at 8:23 PM on January 16, 2009
Shortly after 9/11, I remember hearing a very odd story about how the area underneath the Twin Towers had been exposed, revealing a long-sealed Woolworth Store along a disused and sealed-off subway track. Supposedly all the items were still on shelves and the store was untouched. Having found no further account of this story I've concluded it was urban legend, and even the circumstances of its telling are part of the chaotic swirl of 9/11 information and misinformation in my mind, but I recall the fascination of the frozen-in-amber idea and a distinct longing to see it myself. It is such a tempting fantasy to be able to witness the past, exactly as it was, physically at the very least.
posted by Miko at 8:23 PM on January 16, 2009
St. Louis also has a perfect Lustron prefabricated steel house. Built St. Louis has a nice overview of modernist architecture. Lindell Avenue between Kingshighway and Vandeventer is worth at least a drive-by.
posted by Monsters at 8:30 PM on January 16, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by Monsters at 8:30 PM on January 16, 2009 [3 favorites]
Freaky that there's no plastic all over the upholstery. I just assumed 50's furniture came that way.
posted by Smedleyman at 8:32 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by Smedleyman at 8:32 PM on January 16, 2009
130K? What like dollars? For an entire house? godamnfuckingnewyorkbullshitrentingtillidie
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 8:34 PM on January 16, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 8:34 PM on January 16, 2009 [3 favorites]
Miko, I remember that story too. Do you think it was maybe a museum listserv thing - true or urban legend - that never made it out to anyone else?
And re the FPP: I just bought a 2 level 1960s house with a big insane glass room and huge speakers cemented into the walls at every opportunity. It makes me nervous because we seem to be reenacting some kind of house drama: the people who owned it before were a mother upstairs and her contracting, crazy carpentry son downstairs and now my son has moved into the downstairs and here I am, upstairs, plotting to take out walls and raise the ceiling. Therefore if you must buy a 50s house like that (and eee, why? It would be like walking into your first boyfriend's parents living room forever and ever; at any moment somebody might hand you a glass of orange juice and a deviled egg and ask you what your father does) be aware that you too may be living in the basement quickly.
posted by mygothlaundry at 8:43 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
And re the FPP: I just bought a 2 level 1960s house with a big insane glass room and huge speakers cemented into the walls at every opportunity. It makes me nervous because we seem to be reenacting some kind of house drama: the people who owned it before were a mother upstairs and her contracting, crazy carpentry son downstairs and now my son has moved into the downstairs and here I am, upstairs, plotting to take out walls and raise the ceiling. Therefore if you must buy a 50s house like that (and eee, why? It would be like walking into your first boyfriend's parents living room forever and ever; at any moment somebody might hand you a glass of orange juice and a deviled egg and ask you what your father does) be aware that you too may be living in the basement quickly.
posted by mygothlaundry at 8:43 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
1950 called, it wants its bungalow back.
posted by heathkit at 8:49 PM on January 16, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by heathkit at 8:49 PM on January 16, 2009 [2 favorites]
I don't want to set the world on fire . . .
posted by nola at 9:04 PM on January 16, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by nola at 9:04 PM on January 16, 2009 [2 favorites]
Wow, mygothlaundry, I'm glad you remember it too. As far as source - it might have been museumish, but I feel like I also heard it from my brother who was an EMT at the time in the NY area and was relaying all sorts of crazy EMT stories. But when he told me, I remember feeling like I'd heard it before through another source...so a museum listserv is a possibility. Maybe in my off hours I'll do some more digging. I've tried a couple times and ended up getting bogged down in the endless 9/11 "questions" links.
posted by Miko at 9:05 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by Miko at 9:05 PM on January 16, 2009
I dunno about private residences, but my hometown actually has two commercial establishments like this: a restaurant closed in the seventies after twenty years with no change in decor (but meticulously maintained and now often used now for period film shoots) and a pharmacy closed since about 1963 that has never been touched since -- you can peer through the slightly foggy glass at dusty cans of Burma Shave still on the shelves and yellowed copies of Look and Life in the magazine rack.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:45 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:45 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
Shortly after 9/11, I remember hearing a very odd story about how the area underneath the Twin Towers had been exposed, revealing a long-sealed Woolworth Store along a disused and sealed-off subway track.
Well, there was a mall underneath the Twin Towers that was connected to the subway. Maybe someone saw one of the dated stores and thought that's what he saw.
posted by eye of newt at 9:54 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
Well, there was a mall underneath the Twin Towers that was connected to the subway. Maybe someone saw one of the dated stores and thought that's what he saw.
posted by eye of newt at 9:54 PM on January 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
A bit more Googling shows that there was an older subway system that was sealed up, and that there were many shops at a Hudson Terminal station nearby, so maybe....
posted by eye of newt at 10:03 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by eye of newt at 10:03 PM on January 16, 2009
" ... the main level has been frozen in time and perfectly preserved."
Oh?
Those rugs on either side of the master bed look modern, as does the hand-held shower and the ceiling fan in the kitchen.
posted by Relay at 11:29 PM on January 16, 2009
Oh?
Those rugs on either side of the master bed look modern, as does the hand-held shower and the ceiling fan in the kitchen.
posted by Relay at 11:29 PM on January 16, 2009
born in 1955 in Cleveland, pissed that this house in St. Louis has held up so much better than I have...
posted by wendell at 11:30 PM on January 16, 2009
posted by wendell at 11:30 PM on January 16, 2009
Nice one Nola. It'd be perfect if the house was on "Tranquility Lane."
posted by bardic at 12:43 AM on January 17, 2009
posted by bardic at 12:43 AM on January 17, 2009
I don't get it.
You pay the $129k for a nine hundred and something square foot crapshack with a basement to dig a pit in and tell nice ladies to put the lotion on or they'll get the hose again.
From the listing: "seller open to negotiatng (sic) furniture/furnishings to remain"
Meaning, you gotta pay more for that antique crap.
The exterior is fugly.
The interior, sans antique furnishings, is a bunch of bare white walls and pink tile in the bathroom.
You're buying 1950s electrical. 1950s sewer. 1950s ethernetohnevermind.
Why's this a big deal? I don't get it.
Having said that, drop this home and this lot into Santa Monica, north of Wilshire, and you're looking at $1,290,000 instead of $129,000.
goddamnoverinflatedcaliforniahomeprices
posted by mark242 at 1:04 AM on January 17, 2009
You pay the $129k for a nine hundred and something square foot crapshack with a basement to dig a pit in and tell nice ladies to put the lotion on or they'll get the hose again.
From the listing: "seller open to negotiatng (sic) furniture/furnishings to remain"
Meaning, you gotta pay more for that antique crap.
The exterior is fugly.
The interior, sans antique furnishings, is a bunch of bare white walls and pink tile in the bathroom.
You're buying 1950s electrical. 1950s sewer. 1950s ethernetohnevermind.
Why's this a big deal? I don't get it.
Having said that, drop this home and this lot into Santa Monica, north of Wilshire, and you're looking at $1,290,000 instead of $129,000.
goddamnoverinflatedcaliforniahomeprices
posted by mark242 at 1:04 AM on January 17, 2009
mark242: "Why's this a big deal? I don't get it."
ObEddieIzzard:
ObEddieIzzard:
Yes, and I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from...posted by PontifexPrimus at 1:39 AM on January 17, 2009 [2 favorites]
Oh, yeah. You tear your history down, man! "30 years old, let's smash it to the floor and put a car park here!" I have seen it in stories.
I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "Noooo, surely not, no. No one was alive back then!"
The 28th turkey was the final straw. He told that bitch for the last time.
After that they had their Thanksgivings downstairs. Forever.
posted by basicchannel at 1:50 AM on January 17, 2009 [1 favorite]
After that they had their Thanksgivings downstairs. Forever.
posted by basicchannel at 1:50 AM on January 17, 2009 [1 favorite]
I know this realtor. For several years he was an excellent graphic designer and web designer. He got out when he got sick of the business and got his real estate license. I can walk down a street and pull an info sheet for a house for sale out of their little box and immediately know he's the realtor due to the design. Second to his personality, I think his design ability has really shaped and helped his business. I know this has nothing to do with the post, but that Web site is a sales tool and part of his services, not an independent project for the sake of the house. He's sold houses for several friends of mine and his GD background is an amazing asset. Funny how you can change careers and meld them at the same time.
And yes, you can buy a house here for $129K. Just be careful on the roads and bridges because we don't tax or toll anything so they might not have been maintained since 1986.
posted by MarvinTheCat at 5:52 AM on January 17, 2009 [2 favorites]
And yes, you can buy a house here for $129K. Just be careful on the roads and bridges because we don't tax or toll anything so they might not have been maintained since 1986.
posted by MarvinTheCat at 5:52 AM on January 17, 2009 [2 favorites]
Its contents are unusually well-preserved, but finding '40s & '50s arsenal-style and bungalow houses on the Hill is like finding snark on MeFi. To be honest, 129k for a sub-1000 sqft house, even in St. Louis, seems high in this housing market. Good on the agent for using a little panache to get a good price for his client.
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 6:23 AM on January 17, 2009
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 6:23 AM on January 17, 2009
Almost the entirety of Buffalo is Victorian homes in need of some love (for a price tag starting under 129k). Some of our suburbs are filled with nothing but homes like these. There is no shortage of estate sales, antique stores, and AmVets selling period furniture to go with it. My living room is all mid-century modern that I have picked up in the last two years while working part time while a grad student.
Seeing this house is wholly unremarkable for me because the entire metropolitan area I live in is stuck in the 1890's-1950's. McKinley is perpetually getting shot in this town.
posted by munchingzombie at 7:06 AM on January 17, 2009
Seeing this house is wholly unremarkable for me because the entire metropolitan area I live in is stuck in the 1890's-1950's. McKinley is perpetually getting shot in this town.
posted by munchingzombie at 7:06 AM on January 17, 2009
Is the "keep the upstairs for show, live in the basement" a St. Louis Italian thing? The young Italian family that lived next to my parents in the late 60's did this to a brand new split level, duplicating everything from kitchen to bedrooms in the basement. They lived down there, while the upstairs looked like a furniture showroom.
posted by Enron Hubbard at 7:20 AM on January 17, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Enron Hubbard at 7:20 AM on January 17, 2009 [1 favorite]
This reminds me of my grandmother's house, only it was the '70s that stuck there. She used the house enough, no slipcovers or anything, but so far as decor was concerned, she didn't fix what wasn't broken. After she passed away this summer, I spent a lot of time in her home taking pictures of shelves like this, that had never been changed in my memory.
posted by Countess Elena at 9:05 AM on January 17, 2009
posted by Countess Elena at 9:05 AM on January 17, 2009
Going to estate sales in West Duluth is pretty much exactly like this. Except with way more tchotchkes. Way more.
posted by RedEmma at 9:43 AM on January 17, 2009
posted by RedEmma at 9:43 AM on January 17, 2009
I love it when MetaFilter is personal and immediate.
That being said, having done a lot of work on my house to prevent a nocturnal visit from the zombie Gustav Stickley, I've got to say that that house kind of gives me the jibblies.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 10:22 AM on January 17, 2009
That being said, having done a lot of work on my house to prevent a nocturnal visit from the zombie Gustav Stickley, I've got to say that that house kind of gives me the jibblies.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 10:22 AM on January 17, 2009
Is the soap from 1955 as well?
posted by punchdrunkhistory at 2:14 PM on January 17, 2009
posted by punchdrunkhistory at 2:14 PM on January 17, 2009
but that neighborhood's kinda funny. Real proud, still very ethnically Italian...most of the fire hydrants are painted with the colors of the Italian flag
Wait, waht?! Italian = funny how? Is this something I'd need to be a midwestern racist to understand?
posted by dame at 5:33 PM on January 17, 2009
Wait, waht?! Italian = funny how? Is this something I'd need to be a midwestern racist to understand?
posted by dame at 5:33 PM on January 17, 2009
Funny == different from the norm is how the charitable interpretation would go.
posted by Catfry at 6:21 PM on January 17, 2009
posted by Catfry at 6:21 PM on January 17, 2009
Looks like I should search it for stimpaks, purified water and Blanco's Mac and Cheese.
Once I've torched it.
posted by Happy Dave at 2:14 AM on January 18, 2009
Once I've torched it.
posted by Happy Dave at 2:14 AM on January 18, 2009
Yes, and I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from...
Srsly?
posted by Ogre Lawless at 4:00 AM on January 18, 2009
Srsly?
posted by Ogre Lawless at 4:00 AM on January 18, 2009
I'm pretty sure if a comedian is serious on stage they are doing it wrong.
posted by Catfry at 5:04 AM on January 18, 2009
posted by Catfry at 5:04 AM on January 18, 2009
Worth buying simply because 1955 was back when people did not feel compelled to junk up their kitchens with tacky signs that say, "FAMILY," "INSPIRE," or "BISTRO."
posted by yellowcandy at 12:39 AM on January 19, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by yellowcandy at 12:39 AM on January 19, 2009 [1 favorite]
Oh god. That bathroom. That's my bathroom. Tile, fixtures, everything. And the bathroom of our previous place in SF. How many of these things were built?
posted by team lowkey at 12:52 AM on January 19, 2009
posted by team lowkey at 12:52 AM on January 19, 2009
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