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07-17-2019 07:52 PM
From the hallway (living room was for company), I could see Mom's little treasures that were breakable atop the coffee table.
Never magazines.
07-17-2019 07:54 PM
Dad was a minimalist, so only a monster ashtray. Until he stopped smoking, then only a big bowl of nuts to crack.
07-17-2019 07:55 PM - edited 07-17-2019 07:56 PM
Time, Newsweek, Progressive Farmer, Farm Journal, McCalls, Ladies Home Journal, New Yorker, Modern Photography, Better Homes and Gardens, Southern Living, the cat or the parakeet--at different times.
07-17-2019 08:01 PM
07-17-2019 08:01 PM
We had that same style nutcracker and bowl, although ours had 4 holes around the nutcracker, that held the nut picks.
07-17-2019 08:01 PM
Clutter and a rest place for our feet! Our coffee table decor was short lived.
07-17-2019 08:29 PM
@SilleeMee My mother had a cigarette box, with matching ash tray on the coffee table but she didn’t smoke. My father did but I don’t think there were any cigarettes inside.
He had a wooden container for pipe tobacco but didn’t have a pipe.
At least there were no cigars!
Doilies were everywhere. Mama and grandmama made them. I still have them.
07-17-2019 08:34 PM
We did not have any coffee table at my houses growing up.
07-17-2019 08:36 PM
I think I still have some of Mom's doilies, too. I'm not planning on placing them on anything in my house like she did...LOL! She even had them in the car!...on the head rests.
07-17-2019 08:36 PM
@RedTop Ours had nut picks too, but my Mom removed them because we tried to impale each other with them.
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