The Decade Rooms
Eleven rooms, one century and change — each decade told from the kitchen, the parlor, and the gadget shelf. Walk them in order, or open any door.
Walk the century — fifty exhibits, in order →
1920s
The Twenties — The House Gets a Cord
Radio nights, jazz on the dial, and the first electric everything.
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1930s
The Thirties — Making Do
The Depression decade: thin soup, thick ingenuity, and the New Deal lamp.
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1940s
The Forties — The House Goes to War
Ration books, victory gardens, and the kitchen as home front.
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1950s
The Fifties — Push-Button Living
The television takes the throne; the suburb takes the family.
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1960s
The Sixties — The Living Room Watches the World
The whole decade happens on television: the march, the moon, the war.
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1970s
The Seventies — Operators Are Standing By
Gas lines, shag carpet, and the gadget that learns to sell itself.
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1980s
The Eighties — The Gadget Goes Personal
The Walkman decade: private soundtracks, plastic everything, and the VCR clock blinking twelve.
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1990s
The Nineties — The Beige Box in the Den
Dial-up screech, the flip phone, and the last analog childhood.
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2000s
The Two-Thousands — Everything Shrinks Toward the Pocket
The iPod, the flip phone, and then 2007 - the year the room changed.
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2010s
The Twenty-Tens — The Glass Rectangle
The great consolidation: one screen swallows the shelf.
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2020s
The Twenty-Twenties — The Listening House
The house answers back; the decade is still being written.
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