Warm wishes for a beautiful pink weekend .
Today I visited my friend Nancy and we talking about old times and houses we had lived in. She was talking about an old pink bathroom. I don't remember any but she said pink was an in color back in the 50's and 60's... I came home and decided to surf the web and found quite a few old advertisements from those years. The ads came from Kohler, Sears and also Crane. Today we think of pink as a girl color most of the time. So a look back to another era of pink bathrooms is my blog for this Saturdaywhen it was the color for everyone.
This ad from 1959
from 1960
This is an ad from the Sears store
This is an ad from Crane for a bathroom
Another Kohler ad from 1961
Below is a few sentence's from an article I read.
Pam Kueber, at
Retro Renovation, estimates that:
…some 5 million pink bathrooms went into the 20 million+ homes built in the United States from 1946-1966… 1 in 4 — at minimum — mid-century homes had a pink bathroom.
She quotes a 1958
Electrical Merchandising that said: "If forced to pick one color as leading this year, most industry men say pink is tops."
Remember to stop by the site of our hostess for a list of today's pink.
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Do any of you bloggers remember having a pink bathroom? Leave me a comment..would love to know your thoughts on this..
Wow, you really took us back in time..and...my mother in law still has a pink bathroom, oh yeah! ))smiles))
ReplyDeleteThanks or the trip down memory lane!!!
ReplyDeleteI remember we had a blue bathroom like these :)
Have a happy pinky pink Saturday :)
Loved the trip back in pink time.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember pink bathrooms either. These ads are a great find!
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty pinks! My daughters boyfriend has a grandma that has an original turquoise bathroom completer with matching toilet from the 1950s!
ReplyDeleteHPS to you although I am late today!