the Honeywell image is frightening.the computers seem aggressive, a long haired lion tamer of data!
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The 1970s was a remarkable decade. I wasn't there to experience it (or the 80s) but the sense of style and design, the effortless "cool" factor of the jazz and disco of the time, the vivid colors, the groundbreaking cinema, the embrace of ethnic fashions, the HUGE boxy cars makes it stand out like no other.
It's an instantly identifiable decade, even moreso than the 80s with its bright colors, big hair, and windbreakers. The 70s has the feel of a movie set to me, possible because that's the only way I've encountered the decade.
Hard to believe that my parents really experienced it as a day to day reality. Though I guess people of the future will say the same about my life as it was in the early 2000s. The wheel keeps turning....
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It’s amazing how ordinary stuff becomes so fascinating after a few decades have gone by. Those offices seem more cool than my cubicle life.
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The lawyer's office exists out of time. Substitute a laptop for the ashtray and throw in a slightly more modern replacement desk-top phone and 1973 becomes 2018.
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The "System development corporation" photo brought me back to a memory of my first job where I used my very first computer, a Wang VS.
I love the Lawyer photo. Most striking is that he doesn't have a computer. We lawyers spend most of the day staring at a computer and racing to respond to emails now, I wonder what it would have been like to practice in those days.
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Major cognitive dissonance here. I'm sure being a woman of color in the midst of '70s corporate culture was awful.
But at the same time the office decor is absolutely fab. I work in tech and would love some of these mid-century modern in my company's offices. It has so much character while also feeling somewhat minima.
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I love the curvaceous design of the 60s and 70s, and the simplicity of these spaces.
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Those were the days
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The dress code is a quaint notion. My experience in contemporary offices, is that one is fortunate if one's colleagues take any more effort than a tee shirt without obscene sayings and long pants. The ashtrays in the photos are shocking now, but weren't then. Good heavens I am old! How did that happen?
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Many public schools have similar examples, teachers and students alike.
Love the ashtrays! Especially the big, round, clear glass one in the photo of 'Languid Blonde'. The antennaed TV with her in the background is classic too.
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It is a Sony Trinitron!
I love the Calder mobile in the Atlantic Richfield photo.
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These are wonderful and even helpful (no, I didn’t mean hopeful) photographs.
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Fabulous! I would like to see “Olympia.” Hope there’s more to come. Women breaking the glass ceiling?
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