One of the features in a lot of those 1950s cookie cutter ranch burger house was the rumpus room which always included a bar. The owner quickly finished his raw basement space to look like a club room when he had the money to do it.
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7 comments:
Love it! A few spitoons and some sawdust and a bottle of Jose Cuervo.
Salute, amigos! Anybody for a game of five card stud?
it's a rec room.
What was the obsession with getting drunk in basements?
Sweet. 60s basement. Remember them well.
I was in a house in Ditmas Park that had one of these...built in the twenties.
The owner said it was a speakeasy in those days.
One of the features in a lot of those 1950s cookie cutter ranch burger house was the rumpus room which always included a bar.
The owner quickly finished his raw basement space to look like a club room when he had the money to do it.
How soon before this Tudor becomes a Fedders?
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