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Posted: 22 Aug 2022


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Flower Paintings with Lamp and Stereo

Flower Paintings with Lamp and Stereo
A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of lamps, chandeliers, candlesticks, and other types of lighting.

This is a color slide, circa 1959, that shows two flower paintings hanging on a wall. Below them is a Motorola "Stereophonic High Fidelity" console. Based on the online documentation for a similar model, the top of the stereo lifts up on the right for access to a record player inside. The six knobs on the left are labeled Function, Compensator, Loudness, Treble, Bass, and Balance. On top of the left side of the stereo are a decorative porcelain table lamp and a framed photo.

This is another slide from the collection of the Pipe-Smoking Man's family. I only recently realized that two other photos from the collection show different parts of this same room. A photo taken to the left of this one also captures part of the stereo console (see Flowering Plants and Groovy Curtains). The door, wall thermostat, and chair in this photo are visible in a photo taken to the right of this one (see Still Life with Television). The flower paintings may be the work of "Ethel", a relative of the Pipe-Smoking Man (see Ethel's Oil Painting, 1967).

Flowering Plants and Groovy Curtains

Still Life with Television

Ethel's Oil Painting, 1967

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 RicksPics
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Ah, the stereo console. I so wanted my parents to "get with it" and buy one but they never saw the need. That's quite a display of African Violets! I remember that they were very popular when I was a boy. My mother killed a lot of them. Ethel's painting looks pretty good. It's amazing how the color holds up in these old slides.
20 months ago. Edited 20 months ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to RicksPics club
Thanks, Rick! The color is quite amazing on some of these old slides. I wonder if they still make any of the console-type furniture. You'd think with the vinyl revival someone would start manufacturing them again to hold turntables.
19 months ago.

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