@tmtomh said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"The typewriters a neat little build, but that STAMP... I don't think I've ever seen one go up multiple slopes like that."

That was the first thing I noticed too. I even searched out the instructions online to make sure they really called for putting a sticker over two slopes like that, and they do!"

I looked the inventory up on Bricklink to verify.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"The larger scale makes every small build look so clean, and instantly recognizable of what they are meant to be."
At first glance I completely underestimated the scale, and as a result was puzzled what piece they used for the typewriter. But upon closer look, everything is twice as big as I thought it to be.

Quite neat actually. Well, except for that STAMP.....

love this typewriter <3

I dont know why but something about this set really speaks to me. I unironically want it

And not just for all those juicy grooveless tiles

For amoment I thought I just discovered a larger slope piece I had no idea existed, then I looked it up and was disappointed by the reality that in this era they wouldn't make something so stupidly specialized and that they were very much willing to put a STAMP over a slope assembly despite the fact that stacked slopes don't even leave a flush surface because of the lips on them.

The whole 1974 Homemaker Series (8sets) is amazing !! Look at this fantastic 70s style interior design. These are so far the coolest vintage sets I’ve come across.

Bottom-grooveless tiles!!! This set is never getting taken apart! But that look is so smooth and clean

@MrNowack said:
"Bottom-grooveless tiles!!! This set is never getting taken apart! But that look is so smooth and clean "

I still have knives that are mis shaped due to removing tiles from baseplates etc.

Is the modern typewriter slope based on this design? It looks awfully familiar...

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=85984pb291&name=Slope%2030%201%20x%202%20x%202/3%20with%20Manual%20Typewriter%20Vintage%20Keyboard%20Pattern&category=%5BSlope,%20Decorated%5DT=C&C=11

That typewriter looks terribly un-ergonomic, I can feel my wrists screaming already.

@rljf311 said:
"Is the modern typewriter slope based on this design? It looks awfully familiar...

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=85984pb291&name=Slope%2030%201%20x%202%20x%202/3%20with%20Manual%20Typewriter%20Vintage%20Keyboard%20Pattern&category=%5BSlope,%20Decorated%5DT=C&C=11"

There are enough differences between that and the one in this set (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=BA031pb01&idColor=11T=I&C=11) that I think the similarities are simply due to the fact that they both depict a typewriter.

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"This is what life looked like before the internet, kids. Just a typewriter, a landline phone, a half empty book case, and some very uncomfortable Scandinavian furniture. The only thing missing is an ash tray -- and the secretary."

Maybe she's in the canceled/never-released set 298 Boss's Office, where the period-accurate setting was going to continue with excessive realism, but saner heads prevailed shortly before release.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @rljf311 said:
"Is the modern typewriter slope based on this design? It looks awfully familiar...

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=85984pb291&name=Slope%2030%201%20x%202%20x%202/3%20with%20Manual%20Typewriter%20Vintage%20Keyboard%20Pattern&category=%5BSlope,%20Decorated%5DT=C&C=11"

There are enough differences between that and the one in this set (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=BA031pb01&idColor=11T=I&C=11) that I think the similarities are simply due to the fact that they both depict a typewriter."

Yeah, seeing the two side-by-side, I think you're right.

I wish lego would release minifigure scale sets like these (would've especially made sense back when modular buildings had no interior).
Keep a similar pre digital era too.

It's interesting in this case the furniture is quite 1970s and "modern", while the typewriter design looks older, say 1920s-1940s.
By the 70s typewriters were often brighter colours and lower in profile.

Perhaps some people here are old enough to remember those days?

Also I thought by the 70s there were push button telephones (same basic design as rotary but with 9 little buttons, or in the Soviet Union, no buttons because the line was direct. "In Soviet Union, telephone calls you.")

Do we know what the stickered 2x2 tile is supposed to be? Looks like one of those binders where paper or cardboard has precut holes that fit into the metal rings.

@Brickchap said:"Do we know what the stickered 2x2 tile is supposed to be? Looks like one of those binders where paper or cardboard has precut holes that fit into the metal rings."

Bricklink describes the stickered element as "Tile 2 x 2 without Groove with Appointment Book, Open Pattern (Sticker) - Set 295." https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3068apb09&idColor=1T=C&C=1 if you want a closer look.

Just me, or is that typewriter a little dated for the '70s? Looks like the Underwood my great-Granddad used most of his life ,bought new in the thirties.

My Smith Corona Courier is of roughly the right vintage, and has an all-plastic shell.

Also, while rotary dials were made until well into the '80s (the GTE Princess I use as my basement line was made in '80, and is one of the last of it), I think touch tones took over well before then. Looks like my old Western Electric 5302 from the '50s. (which sits on a shelf, unused).

That being said, I want those printed bricks so I can replicate those devices.

My main desk is from the 1950s, and is still going strong. I actually still use the Smith Corona a lot too.

@cody6268 said:
"Just me, or is that typewriter a little dated for the '70s? Looks like the Underwood my great-Granddad used most of his life ,bought new in the thirties.

My Smith Corona Courier is of roughly the right vintage, and has an all-plastic shell.

Also, while rotary dials were made until well into the '80s (the GTE Princess I use as my basement line was made in '80, and is one of the last of it), I think touch tones took over well before then. Looks like my old Western Electric 5302 from the '50s. (which sits on a shelf, unused)."

Maybe the secretary works for a boss that's cheap and won't buy any up-to-date equipment?

This is the worst STAMP I've ever seen. Why not split it into two stickers?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @cody6268 said:
"Just me, or is that typewriter a little dated for the '70s? Looks like the Underwood my great-Granddad used most of his life ,bought new in the thirties.

My Smith Corona Courier is of roughly the right vintage, and has an all-plastic shell.

Also, while rotary dials were made until well into the '80s (the GTE Princess I use as my basement line was made in '80, and is one of the last of it), I think touch tones took over well before then. Looks like my old Western Electric 5302 from the '50s. (which sits on a shelf, unused)."

Maybe the secretary works for a boss that's cheap and won't buy any up-to-date equipment?"

Kind of reminds me of where my Granddad worked before he retired. The dye plant he worked at in the '60s and early '70s had one of the first computer systems in my town and my Dad brought the first computer into the house back in the '80s during college. Yet, his boss at that mine service business didn't have a PC for the business until well into the 2000s.

@LegoStevieG said:
" @MrNowack said:
"Bottom-grooveless tiles!!! This set is never getting taken apart! But that look is so smooth and clean "

I still have knives that are mis shaped due to removing tiles from baseplates etc. "

I have ruined tiles from using my mums manicure set to get stuff apart!

This looks really clean and modern (apart from the typewriter) yet of its time, it reminds me of furniture we had at home in the late 70s. I had a couple of homemaker sets back then as they were quite a good way to obtain unusual bricks and arches which you couldn't really get anywhere else - unfortunately it left you with an unusable huge figure you had no use for in a Legoland setting with Minifigs by then.
Speaking of which - where is the secretary? This looks like my own office since home working became the norm - just abandoned desks and no one around...

@danieltheo said:
" @LegoStevieG said:
" @MrNowack said:
"Bottom-grooveless tiles!!! This set is never getting taken apart! But that look is so smooth and clean "

I still have knives that are mis shaped due to removing tiles from baseplates etc. "

I have ruined tiles from using my mums manicure set to get stuff apart!"

Grooveless tiles were before my time, but just regular plates could be hard enough to get apart before brick separators; thank Ole Kirk for those.

@cody6268 said:
"Kind of reminds me of where my Granddad worked before he retired. The dye plant he worked at in the '60s and early '70s had one of the first computer systems in my town and my Dad brought the first computer into the house back in the '80s during college. Yet, his boss at that mine service business didn't have a PC for the business until well into the 2000s. "

I worked for a boatbuilder in high school, and while my dad made a poor choice of home computer (we got a Trash-80), the boatbuilder I worked for told me that he was getting a word processor instead. Said that would do everything he needed out of a computer. These days, he has his own website. Guess he either graduated from the word processor, or it eventually broke down and he couldn't find anyone who still sold them.