re: #111 calochortus
I’m 62 and they were a bit before my time too, but Mr. C.’s and my first house had been built in the early 60s and had blonde wood everywhere and a kitchen with pink appliances and countertops and Venetian pink fixtures in the master bath (wallpaper white with pink and turquoise starburst motifs.) Those appliances were also available in turquoise. I think it was a brief trend because, ewwww.
i long ago concluded that the 1950s was an era characterized by a radical and lamentable absence of taste