Wednesday, July 19, 2017

I Miss the Old Days

1960s Interior Decor: The Decade of Psychedelia Gave Rise to Inventive and Bold Interior Design

12 comments:

Janis Gore said...

That's good-looking stuff. Colors are a little wild for my taste. Some of those rooms, with the bitsiest adjustments, are nearly replicated now. And we're better for it.

Janis Gore said...

This one is very much the sort of room my brother's partner might have done in the '60s

He did the lobby of the Baker Hotel in downtown Dallas around that era.

Janis Gore said...

He wouldn't have used all that godawful green, though.

Janis Gore said...

They had a house in Dallas and kept an apartment or townhouse in Dallas, too. I lived with them for nearly ten years. I helped pay rent and utilities, and in exchange lived in lovely interiors and ate Reagan's exquisite food. He loved to cook, too. They'd come and go, spending months away at a time.

Reagan J. Caraway, Jr. brief bio.

I left his scrapbooks with an antique dealer in Natchez when I moved away.

Can't find anything online for the Baker.

Janis Gore said...

I'm living partially on Reagan's mama's money. She was married to Sr, an oilman who went bust along with Republic National Bank. When she divorced him, she had a settlement that netted her $12,000 a month. In the '50s.

Janis Gore said...

Had a house in Natchez.

Janis Gore said...

I got really drunk at a 4th of July party at that house, and punched a dentist who was groping me. The type who showed you his Mensa card.

Janis Gore said...

Betty Shortle was at that party. She was in her 70s and wearing a girdle under her red cocktail dress. She went into the bathroom and stumbled into the bathtub, then couldn't get out. Cross my heart, it's true.

They bedded her down in the guest room, and she had to leave there in the morning in a red cocktail dress.

Janis Gore said...

Good times. Good times. Best with a taxi, though.

Janis Gore said...

I never have any fun anymore.

Rick Robinson said...

Not a television set in sight.

Don Coffin said...

Actually, in 1965, those places would have been furnished by the parents of the baby boomers (the oldest of whom were only 19 in 1965).