crashmonitor Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Hated 70s stuff most of my life but i seem to have had a bit of a Road to Damascus conversion just lately. We are actually thinking of going completely retro the next time we get a house. You know bakelite dial phone, teak furniture, kitsch art like the one I have linked, little hiker Hummel figurine . may pass on the avacado bathroom suite but who knows hopw far this will go. Nostalgia for a better time, low house prices and proper jobs, plusless technology. The chinese lady......... http://www.artlyst.com/img/newsletters/vladimir-tretchikoff-quote-of-the-month-2.jpg Little hiker... https://p2.liveauctioneers.com/1073/32791/13175069_1_l.jpg Mr and Mrs Clark...how we lived then, of course Mr Clark became homeless once the 70s passed him by...... http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-mr-and-mrs-clark-and-percy-t01269 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Find someone who is doing up an old place and get their old school granny type electric wall fire before they chuck it. They will no doubt be 'in' again before long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Bakelite phones went out in the sixties, surely? Someone I know still has the avocado bathroom suite - any avocado looking like that is in trouble!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 The 70s gave us some great music, does that count? Not too keen on the styles though, I just think of brown and orange when I think of the 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 I thought I'd go for the 1850's tenant look - cold, damp, windows that leak, old aga cooker that doesn't work properly and a coal fire. Don't bother, I'll stay where I am. I'll take the coal fire and leaky windows over plastic ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 It amuses me that my mid-20's daughter finds the dated sh*t I own 'cool', at just the time I finally get round to chucking it out. Quite convenient really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 The 1959 GPO Type 706 telephone was an astonishingly clever example of electrical design. Just about every component has a dual function, true economy of design. From the phone number, this example seems to have been nicked from Scotland Yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Texting on that must have been a faff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgul Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Bakelite phones went out in the sixties, surely? For 70's kitsch you want a trimphone. Preferably one of the later non-radioactive ones (although presumably most of the tritium in the early ones will have decayed to helium by now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 For 70's kitsch you want a trimphone. Preferably one of the later non-radioactive ones (although presumably most of the tritium in the early ones will have decayed to helium by now). I'd forgotten about them. You had to hold it down to dial it was so light! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saving For a Space Ship Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 I got into retro futurism see Thrift shop horror for some mainly US retro horrors (addictive) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 For 70's kitsch you want a trimphone. Preferably one of the later non-radioactive ones (although presumably most of the tritium in the early ones will have decayed to helium by now). The name sounds familiar. Since I'm most likely to remember it from the 80s then hopefully I wasn't irradiating myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 The 1959 GPO Type 706 telephone was an astonishingly clever example of electrical design. Just about every component has a dual function, true economy of design. From the phone number, this example seems to have been nicked from Scotland Yard. I see that exchange is Whitehall.......used to be tudor, gerrard, then enterprise.......remember the party lines where you picked the phone up and could listen to a neighbours conversation....highly enlightening and often entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjhodgson Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 I have a 1950s bakelite phone connected as an extension to my VOIP PBX. Can't currently dial out on it (need a pulse to tone dialing converter), but I can receive calls fine. Always nice to hear the ring on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 You were nobody unless you had a trim phone..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 For those with an interest in nostalgia. http://rhaworth.net/phreak/tenp_01.php I was in the UPLand area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 The 1959 GPO Type 706 telephone was an astonishingly clever example of electrical design. Just about every component has a dual function, true economy of design. From the phone number, this example seems to have been nicked from Scotland Yard. That's what 'phones looked like. Right up to BT privatisation in the '80s, when instead of having to hire a 'phone, you could buy your own, and the market exploded with choice and new-fangled (but much more convenient) push-button models. Followed rapidly by tone-dialling and other more modern things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyme2 Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 You were nobody unless you had a trim phone..... That hard of hearing assist telehone reminded me of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 The hard of hearing phone really did exist. It had an amplified handset, with a light, in case you couldn't hear the bell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turned Out Nice Again Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 http://www.youtub Ha ha. Just surreal enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 That's what 'phones looked like. Right up to BT privatisation in the '80s, when instead of having to hire a 'phone, you could buy your own, and the market exploded with choice and new-fangled (but much more convenient) push-button models. Followed rapidly by tone-dialling and other more modern things. Sir, I congratulate you on your meticulous, if somewhat anally-retentive, use of apostrophes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 For those with an interest in nostalgia. http://rhaworth.net/phreak/tenp_01.php I was in the UPLand area. I was in the more urban VIGilant. Remember MOGador? I think it was like Mordor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 You were nobody unless you had a trim phone..... The rotary Trimphone was truly awful. One of it's many design flaws was that the microphone was near the ear speaker, connected by a plastic tube to the 'mouth-hole', This meant that if you covered the mouthpiece with your hand to speak to someone in your room, you weren't effectively muffling what you said, which must have caught out a few people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battenberg Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 The 1959 GPO Type 706 telephone was an astonishingly clever example of electrical design. Just about every component has a dual function, true economy of design. From the phone number, this example seems to have been nicked from Scotland Yard. Why were there letters on those phones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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