Anyone remember what their childhood home looked like inside?

8 track player - the old way of playing music. Just a longer version of a cassette.
United States
December 27, 2006 1:31pm CST
I can remember in the 70's, we had dark brown paneling on the walls and a green couch with green shag carpets. It was really ugly. I remember doing laundry with my mom using a wringer washing machine. We didn't have a shower just a bathtub. The dining room table was a formica green table. I'm sure glad things have changed for the better. I would never have that carpet anymore and I wouldn't want to have that wringer washing machine either. I also had an 8 track player and record player. My children ask me what an 8 track player was. I try to exlpain but they don't understand that it was just a big cassette only longer. They laugh at me.
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@missyd79 (3438)
• United States
1 Jan 07
I remember what my looks like because my parents still live it that house. They lived there every since i was two, so i don't see them moving out anytime soon.
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• United States
8 Jan 07
Do they still have all the old furniture to? My mom finally got rid of all the old stuff and started buying new.
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• United States
27 Dec 06
i moved around to much to have a childhood home
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@karinna (233)
• United States
12 Jan 07
o God i sure remember my childhood home. it was a 3 bedroom with nine kids and both parents. we lived next to a cemetarty. we had what all us kids called the red room. it was the good room that no one was allowed it, it had lol red shag carpet red couch red chair and red curtains, the paneling was an off white with gold embeded into it and the lamps were gold. i loved it better back then rather then today but the furniture definetly had to go. we had the pea green kitchen with dark brown cabnets and dark kitchen table. the best thing about our child hood home was even though it was small it kept us close and kept us grounded and showed us that no matter what you have how little or how much family is first. with 9 of us we had our battles, i remember my dad would move the furniture and let us go at it in the middle of the parlor, never got bloody but 9 kids your bound to get on each others nerves. every time i go home to see my parents i drive by the house, it helps me remeber the good times we all shared
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• United States
12 Jan 07
sounds like you had a real house full. With nine kids you put 4 in one room and five in the other. There was only four of us and I thought that was to many.
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
12 Jan 07
I remember what the outside looked like more than the inside and I remember exactly where it is located. I remember just parts of my childhood home from the inside but not very much. I remember the bedroom that I slept in but that is about it. The backyard I can remember as well and the neighborhood that it was in. I do remember my second childhood home as my parents still live there and I visit them on the weekends.
• United States
12 Jan 07
How long did you live at your first home? You must have very small not to remember anything but the outside of your home.I can picture my backyard also.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
4 Mar 08
Hello dear beautyoperator. I will never forget what our childhood home looked like though it was pulled down in 1998. It was a very old house built in 1949, which was a very big and nice house with as many rooms as a dozen shared by six families. Well, entering the house, the first part of the house was a small kitchen next to the right of the door, where two families shared the same kitchen and to the left side of the door you would see two tables for two families to have their meals. Walking a few steps farther, you would see another kitchen still on the right side, but a big one with four families sharing the same one, each using coal or wood for cooking, which was the cooking condition then and opposite to the big kitchen, there was a passage wide enough to pass and our water jars were placed there, one big and the other small, beside which was our small table with a cutting board for cutting vegetables and such. Now let's walk across this section. What you would see was another table next to the door of the public toilet. This was our dinning table close to the first room you would see. Now we could see the big so-called public dinning place or living room. There were five rooms in this section and there was a big pond for fishes and evergreen plants in many pots were placed on the edge of the pond. Walk a few steps farward, we were at the back part of the house with three rooms, shared by two families. There was another dining table here for one family. Now turn left and we would go upstairs. It was the same structure on the second floor as the first floor except that there was no pond, but five rooms shared by three families, on which we lived there with two rooms. There was a balcony on the second floor and also there was a passing room on the right of this floor so that we could go up to the third floor, wwhich was an open attic for each family to air clothes and enjoy themselves. Such is my memory to my childhood home. Thanks for this wonderful memory recalling.
• United States
4 Mar 08
I grew up in 60's I was flower child. We did buy a house once but we moved after that everything was pretty sad I moved all the time but did finsh high school no help from parents. Friends saved my life back then.
@sarah22 (3979)
• United States
16 Apr 07
hahaha, thats interesting. ours was in the 70;s and had brick all over. bark carpets and a big yard. it was on floor and me and my sister shared a room, my younger sister loved the mupets and had a lot of them around.
• United States
14 Jan 07
Back when I was a kid, we had a 4 room flat, one bdrm was pink and the other was blue. The kitchens were always yellow and the living room was an ugly green. There was never any carpet, we had the linoleum covered floors throughout. Just one TV and that naturally was in the livingroom. Too be perfectly honest although we didn't have much, whenever I think of home, I think of that flat. There were just so many good memories associated with that place, I don't think I could ever forget it...SS
@rhinoboy (2129)
16 Apr 07
I remember my childhood homes very well. I still live less than a mile from there, so I drive past the first one often. I was an 80's child but there were plenty of 70s furnishings still around. One of the bedrooms had a deep purple carpet. My mum had this embossed pattern wallpaper in the livingroom that was the shape of spiders webs! Now I think of it, I could take a 'virtual' tour right through that house, of course seeing old photo's always brings up some ditails that I forgot about. What's stranger is that I've always lived in such a small area. I've lived in 7 houses in all, I could walk to 6 of them in less than 30 mins (that's all 6 in 30, not 30 mins each).
@jal1948 (1359)
• India
15 Jan 07
ir emember the gramaphone and now that i see the canges that have taken place i wonder and marvel the scientific advancement
@KaMlBob (786)
• United States
5 Apr 07
i remember everything about my childhood home, I was just about to ask a question re: Childhood homes! I remember the floorplan, moulding, appliances,furnishings, yard, foiliage EVERYTHING! Amazing! My childhood home is MY dream home.