Magnavox Drum Table (1971)

Back when your electronics where furniture and would take a second person to move in some cases. Goes well with the 100 lbs console TV.

When you could afford a house, you didn't have to move to a different apartment every 2 years...
- Can't even afford an apartment now. Lost my software job and nobody's hiring. May have to become a dishwasher or something, not sure. Saw a poster for one.
  Edit: sorry, that wasn't all terribly relevant lol

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

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.

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.

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.
- LOL my wife's grandma's piano in our basement is like that.

I can smell this picture

You sold me at a bowl of shrimps

Shrimps is bugs?
- Delicious, delicious bugs.

A redditor once said of the 1970s, "I cannot overstate how brown everything was."

That carpet. Like a forest.

Shag... Oh my. Both good and bad.

My mom would crucify me if I had put a drink on that.

No way there would be drinks anywhere near that carpet either.

I'd love to have one of those.

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.

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

1971 was the future.

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.

Sofa made of toast 🍞

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