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Image 1 — I guess Sears made limited edition art in 1973
Image 2 — I guess Sears made limited edition art in 1973

I guess Sears made limited edition art in 1973

I bought this used metal-framed lithograph for $45 on FB. Under the image it has penciled in "34/150 Sunset Mara 1973". Above the stripes is a 3D-ish embossed set of circles in a bigger circle. There's a label on the back too. The lower edge had some water staining, so I put some white paper in. I'll probably get it re-matted. I think it's pretty cool, especially since the metal frame is also orange. It's about 18 inches tall. Does anybody know who Mara was?

u/SillyEngineer — 2 hours ago

Help finding colorful floor vinyl manufacturers

Hi! I just love seeing all of your colorful homes and wish we had vibrant color back in design in our sad, greige world. 🧡💛💚

I need to replace our kitchen floor, and I am hunting for a manufacturer of sheet vinyl that still makes colorful vinyl. I am open to Unused old stock of vintage sheet vinyl too, but have not found anything large enough to work.

I want COLOR!!! I would love oranges, yellows etc but am open to anything (blues, greens etc), but NOT white, grey, beige sadness. What passes for “color” of many manufacturers these days is a pale blue that is actually grey. :(

The amount of stores I have gone I where the sales person tries to manspain to me that “white/grey matches everything” and “I will regret using a bright color”….. or they just keep pushing that damn LVT that looks like wood…..

I also have very large dogs with large nails. A nice sheet vinyl, especially the older kind, doesn’t have tiny holes from the pressure of the dog nails. Our current LVT floor is ruined and only lasted a few weeks (and it is sad neutrals and I hate it anyway)

Location East coast USA.

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u/InigoMontoya2725 — 4 days ago
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Who else loves this font (that was never actually displayed on any screen back then?)

Who else loves this font (that was never actually displayed on any screen back then?)

I’ve always wondered why in the world the MICR font became the universal symbol for computers in the '80s, especially since no computer at the time actually utilized it to display anything. While I was busy using blocky pixels on an ZX-Spectrum, this specialized typeface was appearing on every "high-tech" movie poster and toy gadget imaginable.

The association was actually a bit of a creative hangover. The font was originally engineered in the 1950s for massive banking mainframes to read magnetic ink on checks. Because those were the first "electronic brains" the public ever encountered, the design world adopted that specific look as a visual shorthand for computing. By the 1980s, the font had become a cultural trope; even though home computers had moved on to entirely different display technologies, designers kept using those 1950s banking numerals to signal went that something was meant to be "digital"

u/Powerful_Wizard71 — 8 days ago
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Bedroom wallpaper in my Grandparent's home.

I've been in love with this room my whole life.

u/Pockydemon27 — 9 days ago
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Uncovered today!

I made a post a while back about a house my wife and purchased that is VERY 70s. Just found this flooring today in the laundry room.

u/MichaelScottsMom — 17 days ago

Is there a place to find harvest gold shag carpet by the sqft?

putting an offer in on a house that has been a single owner since it was new in 1965 until they died, that has had lovingly maintained shag carpet throughout that I want to keep at least in the room i intend to use as my home office which has that wonderful harvest gold shag carpet with wood panel walls, and i really intend to go whole hog on it and maintain it and decorate it to match. (i essentially found the great value version of https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/1-million-florida-time-capsule-103000815.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/1-million-florida-time-capsule-103000815.html this place.)

But my god, I'm trying to find a source for it so I can have some on hand in case I need to patch it or something and every google search I am finding is for area rugs.

u/Retro_Relics — 10 days ago
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Wallpaper Identification

Parents got a new house with this wallpaper and want to try to identify the maker/pattern without having to peel it! I think it is from the 70s though 60s is possible. Any ideas?

https://preview.redd.it/zkj3xsofosvg1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27d84572f78b87f4527edf850f2e1ec60394e8ab

https://preview.redd.it/g0g1l74gosvg1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d77bc406aec7a7f6bde35f95074faaf993e4afdd

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u/purpleppeater — 5 days ago
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Two more rolls of this vinyl in the basement in case the floors and wall aren’t enough

My 1974 bathroom(never enough)

u/BestLifeRaw — 15 days ago
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My grandfather's business card...

My grandfather was a cinematographer in the 60s and early 70s.

I'm sure these numbers are long disconnected. No risk of doxing myself.

u/aspophilia — 16 days ago
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Vintage velvet couch

Recently found this couch, but unable to find any tag/ branding. Anyone have any idea how much something like this is worth?

u/Lando467 — 17 days ago