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May 17, 2008 |
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Pink Hat
FOUND by Jess
in Boise, Idaho
This was found behind a Rite-Aid with the rest of the rejected roll of pictures. They all seemed to be underexposed photos of someone's house, and only this one-- with the mysterious pink hat-- was worth keeping.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
No art on the walls. I know there are people who do not hang anything on their walls. That is something I cannot understand. I do love this image though.
I would kill for those counter tops! Gorgeous...
This looks more like a furniture showroom or a stage set than a person's house. The height of the walls...the absense of wall decor...the curious door/wall construction just beyond the arch...
Creepy.
jess - No, it wasn't.
@Clover I'm one of those people who has nothing on their walls, but I'm just lazy. :)
gotta be hard to drive nails into a cave wall.
pimp hat......nice!
is that a readymade picture frame on the other side of the hall?What is that?does anyone know what those things are called?
Why is almost evey pic said to be creepy in some way on here? lol
swift, I think that is on of those inset things in the wall with a light coming down to illuminate your naked statue or whatever you decide display. But I'd say that this pad definitely could use a naked statue.
This is 70's. Dark paneling, I bet that sofa set is so velvet, even the house plant looks 70's.
its not creepy. people live in houses like this all the time .it looks like a nice sized house.And a regular home.the lights are classy .
I've seen the indented part of the wall before on houses I forgot the name of....
@Terrie: I disagree that this photo is from the 1970s. You can tell by the granite countertop, the tall, curving, black sink faucet, the light fixtures and the fridge. Those are all fairly contemporary details. I don't see dark paneling, but I see a dark wood cabinet over the fridge, but that doesn't speak of 70's either, nor do the vertical blinds on the window (or sliding door) in the background. I think the sofa is leather because right under the hat you can see some light reflected on the side which makes it look smooth, not a fabric. Also, that white picture frame thingy *I think* is called a dumbwaiter, kind of like a mini-elevator that servants used in the olden days to transport dinner from the kitchen to the diningroom, so maybe this apartment is from a renovated mansion. Or maybe it's a laundry chute or a trash chute to the building's incinerator. Anyway, it looks like a door because it appears to have a handle at the top center.
I don't think it's a pimp hat. It looks to be one of those gardening type hats that elderly women wear. There are also various lotions on the counter and the plant looks like something an elderly person would care for. I think it's a house that an old couple, or at least an old woman just moved into. Maybe a recent relocation to Florida? They might have taken pictures of each room to show their kids (scattered across the country) that they're settling in nicely.
I do agree that the alcove/inset in the wall needs a statue featured. It just looks too lonely left empty.
I agree with Terrie-is-so-very, that this is a 1970's house, or maybe early 80's because of the white fridge. In the 70's most appliances were gold and avocado green.
I think it's a "modern" home, and that white thing behind the arch is a recessed nook (aren't they called nooks? What is a nook? What is a cranny?) for art, either a painting or naked statue.
At first I thought it might be a roll-away door, like on a roll-away desk, hiding a screen showing who's at the front door. Like in an old secret agent movie, maybe.
The counter top has the look of currently popular granite counter tops. But I believe it's Formica. What are those two black things lying on the counter? Are they brackets for candles or plants, waiting to be hung on the wall? There is a lot of junk on the counter.
Is that a jar of Dippity-Doo on the counter?
Is that a speaker above the arch? Do they have an intercom system?
Do they still put intercom systems in houses these days? I remember my friend lived in a house with an intercom system in the 1960's. The mom didn't have to yell upstairs for the kids to come down to dinner. I doubt they ever used it, really. But we kids had fun playing with it.
Hey, Nightingale! We were simulposting! Wow! I thought about the door handle on the nook.. and that's a very creative idea that it could be a dumb waiter. I think the counter is Formica though, because of the sharp edges.
I don't think it's a dumb waiter, or anything requiring a cupboard space in back, because behind it looks like room or hallway, so it has to be something just on the wall. I think the handle-looking thing is actually a light fixture.
There are other details that make it seem less 70's too. The white crown molding details and baseboards. We remodeled a house in 1986, using trim like this, and the beige walls are similar to colors we chose. Also, the carpet looks like a berber, similar to what we put in that house. I think it's possible that this is a 1960's or 70's "modern" home that was remodeled in the 1980s.
The magnifying thingy hasn't worked for me for several weeks now. Is it me, or is it you?
Clover - my first thought was that I could not understand how anyone can stare at blank walls in their house! But I do understand laziness all too well, smallbear.
I am a vintage dealer and my humble opinion is: NO way 70s. Furniture is either 80s or out-of-fashion 90s, and the rest is 90s.
The hat - timeless. In fact, maybe it travels through time and this is the only evidence of the flying hat. It looks the part! I wonder what it is doing in that room...
I think those black things are sconces. I did think that the molding seemed modern, but people have been using it for ages.
The thing on the wall isn't a laundry shoot or a dumbwaiter and is probably meant to showcase a painting, not a statue as I previously thought because it's too shallow. It looks like a stairway or other area behind that wall. The wall isn't deep enough for it to be anything else.
I agree the sofa might be leather. I said velvet, but I could mean velour (I don't really know the difference), but we used to have a dark green sofa of that fabric. If you brush it one way, it's dark and the other way, it turns light. The taut edges had a sheen.
The hallway looks like it's mirrored. The fridge is 80's, by the look and digital display on the ice dispenser. I asked my husband his opinion of the counter tops because he has a little bit of experience in that area, he says they appear to be real and stone counter tops were available in the 70's and 80's.
The only thing that looks modern (modern as in, put in today) is the faucet.
I'm probably wrong though, it is probably more like the 80's. I was born in the 70's so everything before 1985--looks like the 70's to me.
And really, I'm putting way to much effort into this photo--I have popsicles that need to be eaten.
by shoot, I mean chute.
This is a modern day picture. The fridge isn't white. It is stainless steel with the flash from the camera reflecting off of it. Unless I'm wrong, there were no Clorox wipes in the 70's which is the green container sitting next to the sink.
The plant is a Christmas cactus.
I concur the counters appear to be Formica.
Those cabinets are the same as the ones in my kitchen over the refridgerator in my 1984 house.
Thats my pink hat!
A nook is a corner, often created where there really isn't one...an alcove (see "breakfast nook"). It comes from "inglenook", the space next to those massive Olde Englishhe fireplaces in which you could roast a whole ox...there were "nooks" on each side where settles (highbacked wooden seats) were placed so people could sit in the warm.
A cranny is a crack, like a crack in the sidewalk, just big enough for stuff to get stuck in. Irretrievably, usually. Crannies are expert at breeding weeds (outside) and gunge (inside, particularly in kitchens and bathrooms).
So that's where Ryan went...
My bitch better have my money. Hey, wait, where's my hat? My bitch better have my hat too.
@Clover--I haven't thought about Dippity-Doo in years! My mother used to use it when she was "setting" her hair. I always loved the smell of it (weird, I know). And, we had an intercom system in the house where I grew up. My parents never used it, but the kids did hve a lot of fun with it--making creepy noises, scaring people, etc.
I agree with Erp in Burp -- at first sight it does look like a stage set. Odd 'false wall' seems improbably thin. And the nook/cranny looks an awkward place to display a picture or statue.
Or perhaps it's not a house but part of a suite of offices with a kitchen area and a sitting area with leather sofas (and hat). Maybe the 'nook/cranny' is actually a hatch through into the adjoining office for some reason (tea trays?).
That does look like a berber carpet (just like my new one!) but it suddenly stops and gives way to very industrial-looking black stuff, which would be more suitable for an office than a home?
Altogether I get an impersonal, institutional vibe from this picture, rather than somewhere lived-in.
(What's the bright blue thing peeking out from behind the sofa??)
If it *is* a house or apartment, I wonder if they might be photos for an estate agent (or whatever you guys call the people who sell your home for you). So the owners have already taken the pictures off the walls, since they know they will be moving out as soon as they can find a buyer.
I think it might be a modern photo too. There looks like there is a digital display on the freezer - but I'm not too sure on how long those have been around.
The photo itself is new, since it was found behind rite aid. If this was from the early 90's (wow that's like 20 years ago) I doubt the film would have held up.
The white, frame on the wall is a mirror. I would bet on that. With a light switch at the top.
I'd say this pic is from the eighties, I bought a double door fridge, ice dispenser and water, with a digital clock on it in 1986.
I loved it!
However, the countertops look to be formica. I hate that cheap crap! (formica)
At least it's not a pink sock.