Their photographic series of black and white vignettes causes us to stop and melt in nostalgic wallowing, while for most others it's no more than vague reminisce, but the connection is there, so we persist, and share our lives, happy to show that we are all the same at heart, regardless of race, creed or social standing, this is America at its best, I say, how say you all?

In regards to curlers, I'll just mention that prcrstn8 hit the nail on the head and say no more about that. As to seattlekid's speculation about the vintage of the walls, our house was built in 1906 as a Presbyterian church. Our front porch had been the bottom portion of the belfry. Just a few years later, the congregation moved to the neighboring town of Corte Madera and the building remained vacant until 1923 when it was purchased and remodeled as a dwelling. My folks bought it in 1941 (for $3000!). The walls and ceilings were plywood overlaid with plaster stippling. In the most recent sale a couple years ago, the house apparently went for somewhere around $1,500,000. Not the Larkspur I grew up in.

This house was built before 1955 before the era of drywall construction. This looks just like the living room of the house we had built in 1953 that had wet plaster walls and a coved ceiling and what looks like a moulding, which I think was plaster, to separate the wall from the ceiling. We would paint the ceiling white, the walls light blue.

Clearly, your mom never saw this photo. Jeez, I'd have had my ears set on fire if I so much as mentioned that mom had her hair in curlers, never mind taking a photo of her like that!

Nice observation, Anonymous. That piece of trim that fakes the viewer into thinking it's a ceiling is the first thing I usually notice when watching sitcoms. The perspective of this photo also makes it appear that the walls (at least the left side) do not meet at 90° angles, but something much wider, just like sitcom rooms.

Styles at that time required curling of the hair so when did you do it? Like many women, I worked outside the home so, even worse than wearing pins during the day, I rolled my hair at night and had to sleep on the things not to mention that my new husband had to sleep with them too. When curling irons came back on the scene, now electric, out went the curlers.

Your name wouldn't be Cleaver would it?

Why did moms always have a head full of rollers or pin curls? I thought the point back then was to look good for your man when he got home, but I remember my mother with a never-ending head scarf and picky, picky bobby pins underneath it.

I think the fabric is upholstery fabric. It looks like there are some springs and arm rests underneath the fabric, so I suspect that your mom was upholstering a chair!

"It's the the Tterrace Show, sponsored by the North American Lighting and Lamp Council, in cooperation with the California Curtain Advisory Board!"

Did you grow up on a sitcom soundstage? Or is there a ceiling up there somewhere?

I think you have the all American family. If I could go back in time, do you think you mom and dad would adopt me? Tell us more about your parents. What did your dad do for a living? Did mom work (of course, being a mom is a full time job).