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Old 11-28-2009, 09:57 AM   #1
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Classic furniture from my mother in law

When we cleaned out her home in Arizona, my mother in law pleaded with me to take her favorite lamp. She said she purchased it at Knott's Berry Farm which I never knew had a furniture department. The lamp is about 50 inches tall and I placed it by the dining room chair for scale.

In some way it reminds me of that leg shaped lamp int he Christmas movie. FRAGILEEE!
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Old 11-28-2009, 11:21 AM   #2
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Lovely. How very 70s.

I have some stuff like that from my mom. Hideous, but I grew up with the stuff and it's so ironically ugly I hate to part with it. Lamps are especially good examples of this particular phenomenon. I have this one hanging lamp that . . . I just tried to describe but I can't. I'll have to take a photo.
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Old 11-28-2009, 11:47 AM   #3
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straight off a James Bond Movie Set
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Old 11-28-2009, 01:35 PM   #4
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I'm sorry, but that is hideous. at least to my 40yo eyes. Nicely preserved, though. And Huuuuge!
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Old 11-28-2009, 02:51 PM   #5
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I should add that the part about a foot of off the ground that is sort of pear shaped, she used to put spare change and chewing gum and indigestion tablets there.Very convenient.
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Old 11-28-2009, 04:05 PM   #6
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LOL - my son has a lamp in his room with a wooden base (also very 70s, inherited), and it has sort of a dish shaped bottom like that, for holding spare change, thumbtacks, and assorted Lego pieces.
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Old 11-30-2009, 02:22 PM   #7
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Your MIL knows classic? Way cool.





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Old 11-30-2009, 03:57 PM   #8
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HEY! Thats where my lamp ended up - Was there money inside it?
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Old 11-30-2009, 05:31 PM   #9
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I think you should rub the lamp, chris....
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I think you should rub the lamp, chris....
Is that what they're calling it these days?
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Old 11-30-2009, 08:04 PM   #11
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Nicely preserved, though. And Huuuuge!
That's what I though Monster was going for.
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Old 11-30-2009, 08:27 PM   #12
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You're all thinking dirty about me.....
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You're all thinking dirty about me.....
Well, sure. Can you blame us?
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