Update: Uploader closed. Come back every Friday to see what we share next. We’re a clan of incurable collectors, so I plan to feature an “upload your thrifty vintage finds” once a month as part of my new, regular Friday upload feature.
Today’s yard sale find: 1960’s Morse “Supertone” Hi-Fi console for the living room. clg1977 Melrose, MA
Now that it’s tag sale season, I bet you’re finding all kinds of treasures out there. Show ’em off! Upload your photos this weekend — it’s easy, here’s all you need to do:
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nina462 says
oh my today was a whirl wind estate sale…I will go back tomorrow to take more pictures of the house. It is a cute MCM home, that will be going on sale soon in the Portage, MI area. Has a bar in the panelled basement (with plaid carpeting), original kitchen. The house is turquoise and brick (w/a sweet planter in the front). If I didn’t already have my house, I’d buy this one. I told the owners all about keeping things as in and trying to sell as a MCM Retro as there are plenty of buyers. Meanwhile, I spent a load of money today – bought my Zenith and RCA television & white metal cabinet. I also bought a black iron patio set that I’ll pick up tomorrow (while taking more pictures). There was a lovely vintage freezer that I would’ve bought ($75) if it hadn’t already been sold. Oh My! I also bought 3 (yes, 3) metal, kleenex holders for a vintage cars – I’ll take pictures of those tomorrow…$5 each, couldn’t decide so I bought them all!
Also, I uploaded my silverware and new/old light fixture.
Will says
That Zenith console was made from 1964-1968 model years. If it’s run with vacuum tubes it’s ’64-’65 (i.e. if takes a minute to warm up), if not it’s ’66-’68. They made two different versions of that console during that time, your’s is the smaller more economical model, where as the one with the 4 doors on each side is the larger, higher end model. That is my favorite Zenith stereo cabinet of all time!
Lisa says
I didn’t have too much luck thrifting this week. Although I did find this groovy wooden cat ink pen.
hannah says
*All jealous and stuff* over the $2.00 tension pole lamp! I’ve been looking for a bargain for about 8 years now, and no price for condition/style has spoken to me yet. You TOTALLY scored!! Kudos to you!
Betsy says
Thanks! It’s gorgeous, and in mint condition. It was love at first sight 🙂
Rebecca says
Please HELP RR fans: Pictures 13, 14, 15 on the uploader are from me and are a RetroRenovation mystery. Do you know what make, model or manufacturer this mid-century modern bedroom set is? It is my mom’s and was purchased in 1960 … I found a sku on the back, but no other identifying marks. Appears to be solid walnut. Any help would be most appreciate. She has a dresser with mirror, man’s chest, one 2-drawer nightstand and a queen size headboard.
Patty says
There could have been any number of manufacturers making that dresser. Also, factories may have made them under various names for various retailers. I think some of the fancier furniture retailers stamped their own names on the furniture they sold – but didn’t necessarily make.
Did you look on the side of every drawer and turn it all the way upside down?
Rebecca Gonzalez says
I confess, I did not pull out every single drawer of all the pieces. Pulled out many. Will go back and be fastidious! Good point.
Janet says
Rebecca, are you sure it was 1960? I didn’t even think queen beds were being made until a few years later. The Singer Furniture company was making alot of modern furniture in the early sixties and it kind of reminds me of some of their bedroom suites. I don’t recognize it but it was five years later before I became more familiar with furniture styles when I went to work full time in my parents’ furniture store. I wish I had saved the boxes and boxes of brochures and catalogs that we had in the attic, which dated back to the late fiftes. I am sure they were thrown out just recently when the store finally closed the doors.
Rebecca Gonzalez says
Hi, I will double check on the exact year. I really thought it was 1960 but will confirm.
Rebecca Gonzalez says
Hi, the commentary inspired my mother who took a close look at every single drawer. On the nightstand she found one lone remaining label that says LH Lenoir House, a Division of Broyhill Furniture Factories. She remembers that they bought the bedroom set in 1964 in Ohio, but doesn’t know exactly where.
TappanTrailerTami says
Rebecca, I’m sorry I don’t have a clue who made your bedroom set, but the odds seem pretty astounding:
I typed into Google “bedroom set model 4210 mid century” and then hit images. The 3rd image on the top row has a picture of my dining room sideboard, and the matching flat back china hutch! I had to click on it of course, lol. If it weren’t all the way in Pennsylvania (I’m in CA), I’d be contacting them about getting the hutch to go with my set. I have the table, 8 chairs, the sideboard shown, and a corner china hutch.
So, long story short…..I didn’t see any pictures like your bedroom set 🙁 but found the matching hutch for my dining room set instead.
Rebecca says
Haha. Well that is good karma at least.
TappanTrailerTami says
Sorry I flooded the uploader Pam. I haven’t posted any pictures for quite awhile, but most of what I posted was acquired recently, except the bedroom set, I bought that last summer. I’m on vacation, so actually had time to upload some pics finally.
I think you’ll recognize the percolator lamp, which I am ever grateful to you and the Shandell’s for sharing on your blog!
I also posted pictures of my wagon wheel sofa and chair. The sofa is very petite at only 65″ long, and neither came with cushions, so I am having those made. Your opinions would be welcomed as I posted two photos (I think) with this great tooled leather look vinyl. One in a more understated burgandy brown color, and the other is turquoise.
Thanks for sharing everyone!
TappanTrailerTami says
I should add also, when I pulled the plywood deck off of the sofa, we looked down and discovered it has a pull out drawer in the center, where it is open in the photo. I just forgot to put it back in before snapping the picture. When it is in place, you can’t tell it is a drawer, so that was a nice surprise.
Vicki says
The Tetsuo Ochikubo Eternal Tunelles signed lithograph was picked up at a thrift store for less than $10! I put it in my mid mod office at work! 🙂
Tina says
Gorgeous! What a find!
Stacey says
Found such a great vintage store that I decided to jump in and become a dealer! I spotted this maroon Victorian chair and had to have it for my daughter’s room. I hope I don’t spend all my profit at the other dealers’ booths; it’s a real possiblity.
We hear a lot about MCModern, but Victorian decor was really big in the late 50s and 60s. That’s why I included it here.
Desirae says
I was given quite a few things from two different friends this week. One friend gave me several magazines; seventeen, mccalls, better homes and gardens, family circle. A few days later, he gave me a sewing pattern and the lamp above. He got them from his coworker who is cleaning out his mother’s attic. Yesterday, another friend gave me three men’s magazines that a movie studio was going to throw away. Since all of my friends know that I live in the 1950s, when they see things, they get them for me. I have wonderful and thoughtful friends!
Lynn-O-Matic says
Wow, Desirae, you sure do!
Tina says
Last Friday night at 10:45 p.m. our power went out from a powerful freak thunderstorm. After a restless, hot night we decided on Saturday morning to get away for a mini-vacation to a town about two hours from here, toward the mountains in Maryland.
We had a great time with our son and his fiancee, checking out three antique malls we’d never been to, and came home with lots of stuff we didn’t need.
I found the plant stand I’ve been looking for, piled with stuff in a booth, marked at only $15. It was ‘brass’ colored, but a spray can of black later, it looks amazing on my back porch.
I saw one that recently sold on eBay for $159! And two are for sale on Etsy at prices 6 or 7 times more than I paid.
Oh yeah… our power returned on Tuesday afternoon. With temps hovering around 100F, I will never take A/C for granted again. These 1980s houses just weren’t built to not have A/C. The air temp was cool enough outside at night, but absolutely none of it would come in the windows. My next house will be old enough to have been built before central air was a thing. Cross ventilation is a blessing.
IMissLiberty says
One thing newer homes have is a bathroom fan. I find it really helps to turn on all the exhaust fans in the house, including over the stove. It helps get the air starting to flow, and since they are near the cieling, the hot air goes first. The key is to get cool air to come in and absorb the heat given off by the walls and furniture. If they are too noisy, be sure to start as soon as the outside tempurature drops, so you can turn them off before bed. (And keep them clean and oiled.)
Tina says
Bathroom fans… great idea for bringing some cool air upstairs. The folks we bought the house from had installed a whole-house fan, which does a great job of bringing up the A/C before we go to bed upstairs.
But of course, without power, they’re no good at all!
vintage_vantage says
Bathroom vents also suck out the cool air too!
TappanTrailerTami says
Score on the plant stand Tina! Much better black I am quite sure 🙂
Hope you have managed to cool off…..
Susie says
One thing I really miss from the house I grew up in (a 1920s bungalow that got a majorly groovy renovation in the 60s) was the basement fan. I don’t know when it was put in…maybe the 50s, possibly earlier…but it was this huge industrial looking window fan that was perfect for getting cool air moving throughout the whole house. My dad would open the basement door and this cool breeze would just flow up the stairs and into the first floor. I’m guessing it was put in before air conditioning was invented because honestly on some days it worked better than the air conditioning. I’ve never seen another house with one like it, but it was really quite genius.