Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 09, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Domestic, Technology, Advertising, 1950s
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 07, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Food, PSA’s, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, 1950s
For $600,000 -- adjusted for inflation, about $4.9 million today -- Hayes got a six-level, steel-and-glass pad with masculine, maximum technology and minimal custom decoration. He parked on girders projecting from the edge of his hillside lot, piped in hi-fi music, poured drinks from an ultra-sleek mini kitchen designed for catering, not for cooking, seduced brunettes in an orchid greenhouse and did what bachelors do in a free-standing “playroom.”
There was a circular fireplace, a louvered skylight, a mirrored master suite and an artificial beach for topless tanning. An outdoor hearth in gunite lava rock warmed women chilled by gin martinis.
Guests in the bomb shelter of Hal Hayes's house.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 26, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 22, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Sexuality, Stupid Criminals, Wives, 1910s
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 12, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Domestic, Nature, 1920s
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 17, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Advertising, 1950s
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 13, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Eccentrics, Emigrants, Immigrants and Borders, Air Travel and Airlines, Europe
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 06, 2022 -
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Category: Body, Domestic, Television, Advertising, 1950s, Women, Natural Wonders
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 27, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Fads, Wives, Hair Styling, 1920s, Native Americans
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 20, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Family, Children, Advertising, 1960s, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical
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