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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:04:40 PM EDT
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Because.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:06:15 PM EDT
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So we are looking at a home to possibly purchase and one of the first ones we looked at had 1 owner and dates back to the 70s It needs work but the first thing my attention gets drawn to was the carpet....avocado green? Was that a thing in the 70s? It has 40+ year old carpet?!?! I just took a shower, but now need to go take another. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:06:58 PM EDT
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Don't forget harvest gold and wood paneling and shag carpet and pink bathroom fixtures.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:07:11 PM EDT
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Why is everything earthtone and faux stone now?
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:07:21 PM EDT
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It has 40+ year old carpet?!?! I just took a shower, but now need to go take another. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:07:26 PM EDT
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I don't know but...its true |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:08:26 PM EDT
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harvest gold baby.
Even the PHONE on the wall was harvest gold in ours. Cabinets, sink, all of it. Bathroom tile too. What color should we do this? Baby shit. Baby shit yellow. Thats a great choice. 
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:09:08 PM EDT
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Why do some people ask 50,000 senseless questions ?
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:09:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:10:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:10:58 PM EDT
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Why do some people ask 50,000 senseless questions ? 
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:11:30 PM EDT
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Because the 1970s were, and remain a spreading disaster of demographics, technology, arts, culture and so on.
The decade that illustrated that the atomic dreams of the fifties and the utopian ideals of the sixties were dead and gone. Replaced by crap cars, mediocre aircraft, truly abysmal art, the failure to build on the Apollo program, stagflation, the reign of Brezhnev, Nixon, Carter, whoever the fuck was in charge of Britan and France, and a serious heroin epidemic. Consider yourself lucky the house isn't painted an even worse shade. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:13:58 PM EDT
[#13]
Very much so, along with Harvest Gold and Coppertone.
FWIW, our house was built in the late '70s, the master bath is Avacoda, and the kitchen cabinets are dark oak with Harvest Gold countertops. The original HG appliances have long since worn out and been replaced by white. My brother and his wife cringe whenever they come to visit. In the 30 years they've been married, they've remodeled the kitchen twice and are talking about doing it again. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:14:23 PM EDT
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When we were kids, our house had gold and foil wallpaper in the kitchen with a brown in wall oven and an avocado refrigerator. The family room had black paneled walls with orange shag carpeting.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:16:12 PM EDT
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Avocado green, harvest gold and, what was it, bronze, burnt orange or something. Those were the "in" colors for appliances back in the day.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:16:33 PM EDT
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Quityerbitchin.
They did it to make you wonder. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:17:06 PM EDT
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Quote History was that sinks, tubs tile and toilets in rose harvest gold or avacado. No way to fix that cheap
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:18:26 PM EDT
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Mmm burnt orange shag carpet.
So awesome to play on as a kid. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:18:54 PM EDT
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Same reason pastels were big in the 90s. People are gross.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:20:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
When we were kids, our house had gold and foil wallpaper in the kitchen with a brown in wall oven and an avocado refrigerator. The family room had black paneled walls with orange shag carpeting.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:20:54 PM EDT
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same reason baby shit brown was a popular interior and car color...
oh, I dunno the reason, but I'm sure it'll be the same when we find out. 
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:21:10 PM EDT
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Avocado green, harvest gold and, what was it, bronze, burnt orange or something. Those were the "in" colors for appliances back in the day. In spite of the Johnson/Nixon/Carter Stagflation and Misery Index, the '70s were great -- but not as good as the '50s. 
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:23:53 PM EDT
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Shockingly enough styles and tastes change over time.
What was stylish twenty years ago is considered tacky today. Just because something is tasteful and considered beautiful today doesn't mean it will be in a few years. For decades wood floors were considered awful, and only the poor had them, anybody who could afford it had wall to wall carpet with various types of tile in the kitchen and WC. Today any carpet is pretty much a sure sign the buyer couldn't afford the upgrades. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:24:58 PM EDT
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Avocado green? You're whining about that? You've obviously never been to Puerto Rico, Cuba, or Miami? The pastel colors of avocado green, pink, sky blue, and yellows will really piss you off or give you a conniption fit, the way you're whining about the green!
 Me, I could care less. It's actually nice to see some color diversity sometimes. Doesn't bother me.
Miami 
Bahamas 
San Juan, Puerto Rico 
Havana, Cuba 
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:25:03 PM EDT
[#25]
I miss the '70s
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:25:05 PM EDT
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20 years from now, are we going to laugh at granite and stainless?
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:26:34 PM EDT
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Same reason pastels were big in the 90s. People are gross. http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/091107g.jpg |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:26:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Avocado green? You're whining about that? You've obviously never been to Puerto Rico, Cuba, or Miami? The pastel colors of avocado green, pink, sky blue, and yellows will really piss you off or give you a conniption fit, the way you're whining about the green! Me, I could care less. It's actually nice to see some color diversity sometimes. Doesn't bother me.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:27:07 PM EDT
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It was actually a festive Lime Green, back in the day.
Dulled with age.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:28:10 PM EDT
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Same reason almond was the color of choice in the 80s decor.
Things go in and out of style and that requires time. Chris |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:28:58 PM EDT
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IMHO, Harvest Gold, Avocado Green, and Coppertone were rebelloin against this:
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:29:57 PM EDT
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Quoted:
So we are looking at a home to possibly purchase and one of the first ones we looked at had 1 owner and dates back to the 70s It needs work but the first thing my attention gets drawn to was the carpet....avocado green? Was that a thing in the 70s? Dude. Avcocado green, mustard yellow, and darker orange colors. Believe it. It was awful. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:30:44 PM EDT
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Because the 1970s were, and remain a spreading disaster of demographics, technology, arts, culture and so on. The decade that illustrated that the atomic dreams of the fifties and the utopian ideals of the sixties were dead and gone. Replaced by crap cars, mediocre aircraft, truly abysmal art, the failure to build on the Apollo program, stagflation, the reign of Brezhnev, Nixon, Carter, whoever the fuck was in charge of Britan and France, and a serious heroin epidemic. Consider yourself lucky the house isn't painted an even worse shade. Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:31:19 PM EDT
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Because the entire world was B&W until NASA invented color for the space program and it took a while to calibrate colors and for people to adjust?
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:31:35 PM EDT
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It has 40+ year old carpet?!?! I just took a shower, but now need to go take another. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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So we are looking at a home to possibly purchase and one of the first ones we looked at had 1 owner and dates back to the 70s It needs work but the first thing my attention gets drawn to was the carpet....avocado green? Was that a thing in the 70s? It has 40+ year old carpet?!?! I just took a shower, but now need to go take another. I took it up because there where perfect oak floor under it. I wish I had been careful and saved it. To get anything close to it is about 200 bucks a yard. I didn't know what I had. It was a nice neutral tan with a nice pattern. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:31:46 PM EDT
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Appliances came in that color too, and car interiors.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:32:22 PM EDT
[#37]
Spanish Mediterranean
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:32:52 PM EDT
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Don't forget harvest gold and wood paneling and shag carpet and pink bathroom fixtures. I have a pink stove from 1950 something. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:33:26 PM EDT
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LSD.
Avocado Green, harvest gold, Brown and orange. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:33:59 PM EDT
[#40]
Heck, when my wife and I bought our first house it was titty pink with white gravel on the roof.
And yeah, the whole interior was pink as well. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:34:47 PM EDT
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LSD. Avocado Green, harvest gold, Brown and orange. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:35:10 PM EDT
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Why was avocado green a color choice for houses in the 70s? Because drugs
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:35:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:37:09 PM EDT
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You can't look at things from the 70's without smoking weed first.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:38:17 PM EDT
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Why is everything earthtone and faux stone now? |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:38:51 PM EDT
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Makes you wonder if what we currently consider to be the apex of architectural design will be considered outdated and ugly one day.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:38:56 PM EDT
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Same reason pastels were big in the 90s. People are gross. http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/091107g.jpg |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:39:04 PM EDT
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Another artifact of the '70s -- vinyl tops.
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:39:08 PM EDT
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Don't forget harvest gold and wood paneling and shag carpet and pink bathroom fixtures. |
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Posted: 10/8/2017 4:41:51 PM EDT
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