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Cwmoser was right I think. Most of the furniture then was somewhat uncomfortable compared to the actually overstuffed pieces that most of us have come to know in more recent decades. That green couch Carmine (my lost Italian brother) posted would be about as overstuffed as they came back then.

That thing is one nice looking piece of furniture by any standards I think, with the exeption of the color in my opinion, but that was a popular color in both home and auto upholstery back then for some reason. I almost bought an Edsel once that looked like it was garage kept by someone's grandmother. It even had the clear seat covers that people got back then. The car was like $1,600 in about 1991 when there was still a lot of nice old iron around for real decent prices, but the color and the two extra doors kept me from grabbing it. I wound up with a 1959 Impala two door hardtop with the factory big block for $900. Now I want to cry because I let go of so much stuff that is crazy high priced and hard to find these days.

Carmine's story of preferring to actually use vintage stuff is like a carbon copy of my life. Uncanny really! Is it an Italian thing I wonder?!?!? I am or Rosati blood Carmine! Roman rebels my Pop Pop always told me!