What colour of appliances were in your home when your were

[yvr girl]

in grade one.

Me. Harvest Gold. Oh, and we had yellow and orange shag carpet in the kitchen. What were my parents thinking.

[chicagojoe]

1. Olive green.

[yvr girl]

4. Is that different avacado? n/t

[chicagojoe]

8. Same thing.

[GingerSnaps]

2. Avocado Green

Brown and burnt orange shag carpeting :puke:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. What was it with avocado green?

My parents had matching appliances in the kitchen. UGLY.
Duckie

[maveric]

3. 1961, White.

Everything was white!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. Avocado Green

They were still there when I graduated HS.

[Nay]

12. Heck, when my mom died in 2001, she still had the harvest gold

fridge. Bless her heart. It still ran great, too.

[kokomo]

6. Oak wood.....we had an icebox, no electricity

The kerosene kitchen range was cream porcelin with peasoup green trim. Oven on one end at waist height.

The dishwasher was me and a rag.

No rugs, just linoleum with homemade "rag" throw rugs.

BTW, Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term!

[KT2000]

7. White - the only choice at the time

[Dookus]

9. avocado

yes, it's true. The 70's were a terrible time.

[cmd]

10. I remember that carpet - it appeared when I was at work

My husband and I had decided on a lovely green carpet for our living room. I went to work, he went to the store to put in the order. I came home to find he had bought the carpet that can only be discribed as something Mickey Mouse up-chucked. The year was 1974. The appliances were harvest gold.

To answer your first question; white, the only color available in 1949.

[Nay]

11. Ha. Ours were harvest gold as well. With the exception of a green

stove. Unbelievable. We had those china plates you got in each box of detergent -- the white plates with the gold wheat stalk. What's funny is that these plates were better quality china than you can BUY now.

[rustydog]

20. Hot Damn!!! My mom used to get dishes that way. What a flash back

[Lone_Star_Dem]

21. What's really funny is those plates are now collectibles

Worth more now per plate then the box of detergent!

[Enraged_Ape]

14. Harvest Gold, then Avocado

EVERYTHING was Harvest Gold and/or Avocado back then (1970).

[DemWitch]

15. Our first house that I remember

(1963-1969) 10X50 Marlette Mobile Home. Everything was Tourquoise. The fridge, sink, stove, tub, toilet. Black and tourquoise checkerboard tile linoleum.

(1969-present) Then we got a new house, 12X60 Vindale Mobile Home (call it a trailer an my Dad freaks) and everything was Avacado Green. Made me wish for tourquoise. Folks still live there but everything has been redone three times. Beige Berber carpet, Beige appliances and bathroom now rule the day.

[bleedingheart]

16. white...mom wasn't much of a risk taker in decorating.

[Nevernose]

17. I, too, had the avacado green appliances

Maybe we survivors of the seventies should form some sort of support group? Maybe "Olive Green Shag Carpets Anonymous?"

[yardwork]

18. Poppy red!

There was a third color option in the early 1970s and my mom embraced it. Our countertops were gorgeous eye-popping Poppy red.

Of course there was some Harvest Gold and Avocado here and there. They were inescapable. Everything - even can openers - was avocado green. What a horrible color.

Loved those poppy red countertops, though. My mom replaced them about five years ago. They'd faded a bit....

The first house Mr. Yardwork and I bought had a pink kitchen. I mean, all pink, all the time. Someone told me this was Mamie Eisenhower Pink. Even the duct tape they had used to repair the pink formica was pink pink pink.

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. White

Our appliances pre-dated that era. My parents bought a used Boston Cooking School stove when they got married in 1956 and used it until 1991. The fridge was of a similar vintage.

[likesmountains 52]

22. ouch...turquoise! nt

[scarlet_owl]

23. Another one for harvest gold.

[no name no slogan]

24. Harvest Gold, with dark avocado counter tops

...with dark wood cabinets and drawers. Our kitchen sink was also Harvest Gold, too, and I remember seeing our kitchen wallpaper pattern in the Partridge Family's kitchen. :o

[CO Liberal]

25. 1959. White

A typical Early '50s kitchen. When my parents redid the kitchen before my sister's wedding in 1972, they went with Harvest Gold.

[Eugene]

26. Brown fridge, wood and earth tones all around.

Faux brown stone on the walls.
A brown dishwasher came years later.

:dem:

[RPM]

27. We still have harvest gold in our kitchen

And pea green in one bath
And light blue in another bath
Don't get me started on the curtains...

My wife and I literally laughed our way through the house when we were hous-hunting!!! Thank god this place was such an eyesure, we got it for a (relative) song.