Super Stuff

[the_horror_man]

They didn't have that when I was a kid in the 1950's. 

Too bad, I would have LOVED experimenting with that stuff! 

(I suspect my parents would have been somewhat less enthusiastic about cleaning up the residue.)

Ooh, that is dated 1967.  It came out just in time for the big High Pile Carpet craze.  For those of you who don't remember "Shag" carpet, it vaguely resembled an unmown lawn.  The pile was so long that you left tracks every time walked across it - like prints in a fresh snow.  People who had one, kept a special carpet rake to fluff the carpet back up and erase the tracks, and had to use it often.  A real Pain.

The fluffed up carpet was so high that door bottoms had to be trimmed to allow them to clear it.  If you live in an older house with puzzling huge spaces under all the doors, it probably had High Pile Carpet back in the 1970's.

Those carpets would have been great traps for "Super Stuff".

Great info.

thm

[Monsters For Sale]

Great info.

thm

Yeah, I know.  I am "Mommy's little answer to the question nobody asked".

[Sean]

They didn't have that when I was a kid in the 1950's. 

Too bad, I would have LOVED experimenting with that stuff! 

(I suspect my parents would have been somewhat less enthusiastic about cleaning up the residue.)

Ooh, that is dated 1967.  It came out just in time for the big High Pile Carpet craze.  For those of you who don't remember "Shag" carpet, it vaguely resembled an unmown lawn.  The pile was so long that you left tracks every time walked across it - like prints in a fresh snow.  People who had one, kept a special carpet rake to fluff the carpet back up and erase the tracks, and had to use it often.  A real Pain.

The fluffed up carpet was so high that door bottoms had to be trimmed to allow them to clear it.  If you live in an older house with puzzling huge spaces under all the doors, it probably had High Pile Carpet back in the 1970's.

Those carpets would have been great traps for "Super Stuff".

I had brown shag carpet in my bedroom.  Never raked it.  It got fluffed when you vacuumed it. Looked like long grain brown rice.  My cousin had green shag.  We could have pulled our carpets up and been The Gargantuas.

[Hepcat]

The townhouse I bought in 1979 had white shag carpeting throughout. It was one of the model homes the builder had decorated and furnished.



It's rather tough to keep white carpet looking white though. I replaced it in 1998 with standard beige carpeting prior to selling the townhouse in 1999.

[Monsters For Sale]

...  It's rather tough to keep white carpet looking white though. I replaced it in 1998 with standard beige carpeting prior to selling the townhouse in 1999.   

One of my favorite Readers' Digest's "Life In These United States" short articles is from a guy who worked in a place that dyed carpets.  They advertised they could duplicate any color you wanted.

One day a woman carrying one small child and herding two others came in and handed him a Ziplock bag filled with dirt. 

She told him, "Match that."

[Hepcat]

That's why I go for sculptured carpet with swirls of earthy beige, brown and grey colours:



I'm not heavily into vacuuming.