• mx_smith
    17·
    21 days ago

    Hey I know those end tables. My dad removed the turntable after it broke and we used them to store magazines and coffee table books. One of them was filled with National Geographic magazines.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    17·
    21 days ago

    Shag carpet never turns brown / grey and gross. It also never absorbs all the cigarette smoke related to that ash tray. It stays beautiful and white forever. /s

  • Lovable SidekickEnglish
    13·
    21 days ago

    My parents had that style of furniture - their drum table even contained an actual copy of the works of Shakespeare nobody read. They also had a Magnavox stereo very similar to this one. It was MASSIVE and weighed about as much as a refrigerator. The right side had a tuner and phonograph player, the left side was record storage. It had a remote that worked ultrasonically, blowing air through little pipes when pressed. By accident I discovered I could make it change channels by jingling coins together.

    • Rob T FireflyEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      My grandmother had one of these in her living room in the 1980s. Usually it was just a massive piece of inert furniture with all sorts of grandma-standard vases, photos, etc. arranged on top. I think I saw it actually being used to play music only once in my life, on some occasion when someone wanted some tunes badly enough to move all the other stuff off so they could open it to get to the phonograph.

  • lemming741English
    9·
    21 days ago

    Phonograph consoles always had a lid to open, meaning you couldn’t put anything on the top. These flip out and slide out style units solved a real problem.

    • sturger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      That drum table swapped that problem for another: having to get down on your hands and knees to do anything with the electronics.

    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      21 days ago

      I never understood why modern phonographs had the lid open, it doesn’t make them louder unlike the Edisons and Victrolas of old and is just inconvenient.

        • Rob T FireflyEnglish
          3·
          20 days ago

          And also nudge the arm past the inevitable skips and scratches. Phonographs in those days generally needed to be running in the open air to minimize aggravation. Even the drum table in this post would have been kept in the open position with the player slid out and accessible when it was in use.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    21 days ago

    This is some niche stoners dream.

    Table to roll on and for munchies, dark side of the moon lp. Beautiful design to look at.

    Definitely a vibe.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    21 days ago

    A complete surround wooden lattice. That would have been great fun to apply furniture wax to. Every other month, until it’s a filled in solid wall