Home Bars: 1976

[tay666]

I'd take A, with the orange bar stools please.

I have no place to put it, and would probably never use it, but for some reason I want it.

Like others have said, there is something about that is just imprinted on our DNA.
Everyone back then, either had one, or wanted one.

I never did understand decanters though.
My mom and dad had them of course. In some fancy holder thing, that I think played music when you pulled on out. Which was cool when I was a little kid of course.
But really, I never understood what was wrong with just serving straight from the bottle?

[J.B.]

Does anyone here keep your liquor in a glass or crystal decanter like on TV?

I do, but just for Gin and Bourbon.

[Hedji]

Just load it up with bum wine

I LOL'd

As I get older, my palette changes, and I get a taste for stuff I couldn't stomach when I was younger. Rye whiskey, and gin and tonic for example.

[Wee67]

My big problem is i don't drink mixed drinks, i mean at all.

Just load it up with bum wine

[Nostalgiabuff]

i don't either. my bar is for socializing. plenty of booze there for those who drink it, but I am strictly a beer guy

[palitoy]

Maybe I can get one of these for my toyroom. But I would have to learn how to make a Harvey Wallbanger.

My big problem is i don't drink mixed drinks, i mean at all.

[Wee67]

Maybe I can get one of these for my toyroom. But I would have to learn how to make a Harvey Wallbanger.

[Hedji]

That leather... Wow that's smooth.

Does anyone here keep your liquor in a glass or crystal decanter like on TV?

[TrekStar]

Maude!

Heck when you watch those 70's police dramas, every mobsters office had one, Charlies Angels had one in their home office, if I remember correctly Sabrina spent most of her office time behind it, sipping something.

[Confessional]

^^ My dad locked two of those "Bar" lamps down too!

Where I'm from, pretty much all working class families were striving to have a 8 track hi-fi, pool table, leather furniture and one of these tricked-out bars. Ahh, the American dream was alive and well!

[Bruce Banner]

Yeah, we had one, hand crafted by my father. Ice bucket, utensils, swizzle sticks, lamp which said "Bar" on the spherical glass shade... the works.

(Edit: Example of a lamp similar to the one we had... after a quick search it seems there were so many of these with the same shade but a great many different bases.)

[VintageJoe70]

My parents still had their bar and all the decorative bottles and bar utensils and whatnot right up until 2017 when we sold their house....I was gonna clean it up and put it in my house but I didnt really have any place to put it...

[J.B.]

I remember Lou Grant getting his drink on in his office.

[PNGwynne]

This was a stable on tv shows during this era.

Maude!

[Mikey]

Interesting that none of these pictures have ashtrays in them. Were cigarettes falling out of fashion that early? I think my mom gave up her Virginia Slims around '76.

Now that you mention it, around the mid 70's is when our local drive-in/ice cream parlor stopped carrying candy cigarettes