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    • atfsgeoff
      atfsgeoff last edited by

      For anyone who has never heard of them, they were a reasonably common architectural feature found in homes built from the 1950s through the 70s.
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      But along with houses, they apparently also found their way into cars: See this fantastic 1973 Ford Country Squire with seating for ten.

      https://www.ebay.com/itm/1973-Ford-Country-Squire/114520948437

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      A Groovy place to be, as only 1970s vinyl and carbon monoxide backdrafting through the power rear window can provide.

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      • CB
        CB last edited by

        I hope you really like the people you're stuck in the back with.

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        • WhoIsTheLeader
          WhoIsTheLeader @CB last edited by

          @cb I hope the person across from you doesn't like playing footsie.

          Color enthusiast, Citroën fanatic, and Cruze driver

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          • CB
            CB @WhoIsTheLeader last edited by

            @whoistheleader Or, at the very least, you're both onboard.

            The driver may not want to look in the rearview mirror.

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            • Chariotoflove
              Chariotoflove last edited by

              @CB @WhoIsTheLeader You’re both not thinking of this the right way. On a long boring road trip, you were far enough back that with a blanket and the right posture, you could safely masturbate through most of Ohio and Pennsylvania without getting caught.

              Curator, Kia enthusiast, dad joke specialist

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              • CB
                CB @Chariotoflove last edited by

                @chariotoflove To the horror of the driver behind you you're making eye contact with.

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                • ranwhenparked
                  ranwhenparked @atfsgeoff last edited by

                  @atfsgeoff I don't know, I always preferred those to the rear-facing ones

                  2022 Ioniq SE
                  1964 Corvair Monza

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                  • aremmes
                    aremmes last edited by

                    I'd have preferred this so much more than the rear-facing seat in my aunt's Gran Torino.

                    As for the conversation pit, the living room in my previous house, and many others in that neighborhood, could have been considered one. It had only a ~7" drop, though. It sucked, as it made the living room feel detached from the rest of the already small house.

                    "I drank what?" -- Socrates

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                    • EssExTee
                      EssExTee @atfsgeoff last edited by

                      @atfsgeoff Anyone who tries to argue that conversation pits weren't expressly for swinging is lying through their teeth

                      The person reading this is a doo-doo head

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                      • Chariotoflove
                        Chariotoflove @CB last edited by

                        @cb said in Conversation Pits:

                        @chariotoflove To the horror of the driver behind you you're making eye contact with.

                        So you have done this before!

                        Curator, Kia enthusiast, dad joke specialist

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                        • CB
                          CB @Chariotoflove last edited by

                          @chariotoflove said in Conversation Pits:

                          @cb said in Conversation Pits:

                          @chariotoflove To the horror of the driver behind you you're making eye contact with.

                          So you have done this before!

                          You don't become as wise as I am without a few adventures you can't admit to.

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                          • BritsnSwedes was MINIGTI
                            BritsnSwedes was MINIGTI @atfsgeoff last edited by

                            @atfsgeoff conversation pit fine, but why are there two turntables and two stools at the organ…with … built in TV?

                            85 Jaguar XJ6; 98 SAAB 900 convertible
                            13 MINI
                            16 Volvo V60CC
                            76 TR6

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                            • Shop-Teacher
                              Shop-Teacher @atfsgeoff last edited by

                              @atfsgeoff They kept doing this in the Panther platform wagons, until they went away.

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                              • 6MT_FTW
                                6MT_FTW @atfsgeoff last edited by 6MT_FTW

                                @atfsgeoff 123-OC14004065_3_1.jpg Oh yeah, I grew up in a house with one of those (not my parent's house but the same floorplan). Utterly useless. The house was built in 1980 but older tracts in the area had that room 3-4 years prior. Most owners have filled them in and converted them to usable floor space, along with extending the living room into the outdoor garden planter area next to the pit. My niece and nephew loved that area and made it their playroom, but they're probably the only ones that have spent any time down there. Then there was the racoon that came in through the chimney...

                                I'm surprised that they haven't removed it, but it's just the two of them in 3,500 sq. ft., so it's not like they need the extra space. By the time they get around to selling the place conversation pits will probably be back in style...

                                Wise men plant trees whose shade they will never enjoy

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                                • atfsgeoff
                                  atfsgeoff @Shop-Teacher last edited by

                                  @shop-teacher Yeah but the panthers weren't quite as bigly as the old 69-78 LTD platform. Still, I do love some steelside Panther waggos

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                                  • ranwhenparked
                                    ranwhenparked @EssExTee last edited by

                                    @essextee I mean, you could probably say that about a lot of new inventions from that era - hot tubs, water beds, custom vans, etc

                                    2022 Ioniq SE
                                    1964 Corvair Monza

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                                    • spacekraken
                                      spacekraken last edited by

                                      My last rental house (built in the late 60s) had the living room like that! Was kind of nice layout-wise.

                                      Ben | observer of rocks | VW Alltrack and many bikes

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                                      • Mark Tucker
                                        Mark Tucker last edited by

                                        Our house was built in '82 and has the living room sunken one step. It's kinda cool, makes for an extra-tall ceiling (and the ability to shop for taller Xmas trees!).

                                        And I remember fighting over who got to sit in the "way back" of those wagons.

                                        "The previous owner did that; it's been like that since I bought it."

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                                        • phenotyp
                                          phenotyp @atfsgeoff last edited by

                                          @atfsgeoff here to fully support elevation changes in landscapes.

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                                          • Tripper
                                            Tripper last edited by Tripper

                                            "what if we designed an area specifically for having sex, with a little table for coke"

                                            -Conversation Pits

                                            E46 M3 | 1502 Hotrod | 11th Gen Civic Si

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                                            • davesaddiction
                                              davesaddiction @phenotyp last edited by

                                              @phenotyp I want to know how many people were seriously injured or died from drunken stumbles in these pits.

                                              manual . RWD . LS3 . MagneRide . Brembos ... 4 doors + 5 seatbelts

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                                              • phenotyp
                                                phenotyp @davesaddiction last edited by

                                                @davesaddiction Culling the herd.

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                                                • TexturedSoyProtein
                                                  TexturedSoyProtein Banned last edited by TexturedSoyProtein

                                                  I got into the old Bob Newhart show recently. Big conversation pit energy in the living room of their apartment, which has far too many diagonal walls that make up a floor plan that doesn't at all jive with what an apartment in their supposed building depicted in interior shots could possibly be set up like.

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                                                  • davesaddiction
                                                    davesaddiction @TexturedSoyProtein last edited by

                                                    @texturedsoyprotein Conversation pit, or just wheelchair-hating split-level?

                                                    @Chariotoflove I assume you're very thankful this old trend has gone the way of the dodo...

                                                    manual . RWD . LS3 . MagneRide . Brembos ... 4 doors + 5 seatbelts

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                                                    • ranwhenparked
                                                      ranwhenparked @TexturedSoyProtein last edited by ranwhenparked

                                                      @texturedsoyprotein Also Mary Tyler Moore, to a certain extent, even though this would be a really odd arrangement for a converted attic in a Victorian house.

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                                                      2022 Ioniq SE
                                                      1964 Corvair Monza

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