$175.00 RENT

That was was in 70 or 71😁😁

I paid $175 mid seventies right in Boston. Those places are now $2000 for a studio.

@@g-girl9867 Yes. Outrageous!

Remember wages would have been much lower too. 😢

u mean worry wart marge simpson iust luv her

She had great comedic timing.

I so agree!

Yes she is amazing! Love her.

Only men know those things. Hence Joe to the rescue.

LOL, IKR! Now I know why she lost her job!🤣🤣🤣

There was a recession in the 70s. I am too young to have experienced it but as I hear it, gas was scarce to say the least and the country, both today and the seventh decade of the 20th century is the blood of all western countries

Exactly! LOL!

Yeah that's nuts! So is quitting a job unless you already have a new one.

It was dirt cheap. I paid $125 for an inexpensive apartment in Atlanta back then.

@Konga 5000 The building they show is on East 84th between 1st and 2nd so yeah, $175 is definitely lowballing it.

Me too.😊

@todd long Yes!

I remember my rent being $200 in the 80's.

@Cheryl Young You took the words right out of my mouth! Yes, Mer Wise count your blessings sweetie. Honey l will even give you one of mine! lol

@@cathycline2290 Took the words right out of my mouth too! I most definitely have one you can have and while I'm at it, I"ll raise you one and throw in a man!😀

I have 2 older sisters, and they're fantastic! We're very close.

@@martyrose Marty, it must be YOU.

I had two. You didn't miss anything. Unless you're a sister too. They don't like brothers.

I was born in 1981 and watching this in 2023. 🇺🇲💜🪻

Brenda ?

Good motto, huh.

Loved him.

Voice of an iconic cat and writer and co-producer of the show.

@@tonyarceneaux286 Always loved Carlton the doorman

genius. 😂

@@MrMenefrego1 Glad somebody noticed! I credit my 10th grade woodshop teacher

Realistic story line. So many people do just that!!!

Mr94584 He said "hi Brenda" instead of Rhoda when leaving the Laundry Room.

Sid Melton from "Make Room For Daddy!"

@@reneebraxton1032 YES!!!! Thank You Renee for clearing the cob webbs out of my brain. I knew I had seen him on some other show.

renee braxton He also played Sophia Petrillo’s deceased husband Sal on the Golden Girls.

@@cathycline2290 Your welcome!

It's a take from the "Mary Tyler Moore Show.

You are soooooo right!!!!!!

@@zimjun7 You mean that "Love is all around" song? How so?

It's a song from 1908 without the lyrics...forgot the title.

Hee hee! Maybe time to aim high 🤞

LOL

LOL I knew low aimers..... See gorgeous big house...say... I wish I could (live there?)... Go to their garage sale. Hahaha True story.

renee braxton The 70’s ipad lol

Skip over it then. You can do that ya know.

It’s funny that you never see Carlton like on Home Improvement you never saw Tim”s neighbor Willson expect his eyes & nose.

Only on Law and Order we saw him without the fence.

Whatever Happened To? Wes Stern? A new feature here at the Beach Compound (Thanks L) that is The Pre-Read takes a look at stars/celebrities who had at least a bit of fame, only to fall into obscurity. Now, obscurity is relative really. I mean, because a person doesn't appear on my television screen each week, or at the theater once a year doesn't mean they don't exist, it just means I am curious as to what they're dong now. This installment surrounds a television actor from the 1970s. Wes Stern was a young actor who had guest roles in a few television shows of the time. But his big break came when he appeared (with teen heartthrob Bobby Sherman) in an episode of The Partridge Family that really served as the launching pad for a proposed spinoff. That spinoff would become Getting Together. And the premise of the series, not unlike The Partridge Family episode where it originated, followed the exploits of Bobby Conway (Sherman) a musician/singer who had no talent for writing lyrics. In the set-up, Danny Partridge (Danny Bonaduce) teams Conway with a friend who is tone deaf. The friend is Lionel Poindexter (Stern) and hilarity ensues as the two decide to make a go of being a musical team in the rough and tumble music mecca that is Hollywood. I really don't remember much about the show to be honest, the one defining memory of Stern, I'm sorry to say, is a poster that my next door neighbor used to have hanging on her wall. Next to the poster of David Cassidy was a giant poster of Bobby Sherman and Wes Stern. The poster was a marketing tool for Getting Together and featured an image of both actors, but the sad thing about it was the poster was probably 95% Sherman, with Stern occupying a very small circle toward the bottom of the piece. The publicity image below was nothing similar to the Tiger Beat poster and I remember feeling kind of sorry for the guy who obviously wasn't the focus of the piece. As a kid I used to watch a lot of television, a lot of it reruns apparently. And one show that I remember though wasn't a huge fan of was That Girl with Marlo Thomas --stay with me here, this does connect in some weird way --. That Girl was a series with a bevy of plots and subplots, but the most obvious to me, and now that I think about it, probably the least strongest, was that Ann Marie (Thomas) was an aspiring actress. All she needed for her big break was a hit commercial or a small part on a television show. What she got, however, were background extra scenes that the family would gather around the television to watch, always culminating in her either being cut from a scene, or only partial visible. Now, back to Wes Stern. The reality of That Girl to me, was that anyone who had a small part on a television show, or a starring part on a commercial was set for life. I would find out later, that a scenario such as that was far from the truth. And Wes Stern is a prime example. I had thought of him, in passing, through my young television watching years wondering how in the heck someone who had their own television series not be super-duper famous. And if Getting Together was canceled, surely it would only be a matter of time before he chose another show to star in. It's almost embarrassing to realize how naive I was in my youth. But that's part of what the Hollywood mystique is right? It's that one big chance. It's that magic that can happen to just about anyone. Obviously the Entertainment Business is a business and things don't work in real life as they might on television. And that is true whether you're a young actress looking for her big break, or a tone deaf lyricist waiting for his. thepre-read.typepad.com

Ya think so!! Don't agree!

I have to agree with Sandra! Yes, Joe was handsome and sexy!!

I like this show but also a bit annoying because everyone is in each other's business!!! The two sisters are on top each blabbing to each about dumb things. The is supposed to be a comedy I get it but I am not really a fan of sit-coms. With few exceptions. I can't stand the canned laughter either. Did not like the drunken doorman carlton either I thought he was a stupid ediot!!

@@cathycline2290 Joe was definitely a cute white guy 👍

@@andreadesalvo3000 Hey ...agree, he is HOMELY......

He was great on Make Room For Daddy.

Remember the big deal when four of them first appeared in public without all their face paint? Comedians were half jokingly yelling: PUT IT BACK ON, PLEASE!!! The boys definitely didn't look anywhere near what I'd expected.

You mean Gene Simmons?

Paul Stanley.

Sounds just like Paul as well.

He looks like Tom Jones to me

Come on, they wore wigs. Especially Nancy Walker. They couldn't have their real hair be perfect every day.

@@nonenoneonenonenone .....MTM admitted on Oprah she wore extensions in the early, long hair period. It was Fall of 1972 when Mary stopped dyeing her hair black and cut it into her chic bob. Maybe that was a wig. Joan Collins said without wigs she'd have none of her own hair left.

How can her hair be brassy? She's got dark hair, I assume her natural hair colour is dark brown....

@@glen7318 she doesn’t

Look up Lorenzo Music on IMDB. :)

He was Garfield

@@kidlitfanful music music music put another nickel in in the Nickelodeon and music music music!!! Yippee! That's all folks!!!!!

Billy Hawkins He was the original voice of Garfield.

And Peter Venkman for the first 2 seasons of The Real Ghostbusters

Hit your mute button or jump ahead one minute.

I always skip it.

I was 18 and living in Seaside, CA. My tiny little apt was $215 a month, plus utilities. My car insurance was $50 a month. After gas, it left me $25 a month for food. Thank God that Farmer Joe's was down the street with their $.10 a basket strawberries. I lived on strawberries, watermelon and iceberg lettuce. I even managed a Bic Mac once in a while. Those were the days. 😁

Wait, didn't he go on to co-found the Foo Fighters? All the foo that's been fought in the last forty years has been fought by the Foo Fighters. I tell ya, whenever I need some foo fought, they're the first ones I call.

@@ericminch you are thinking of Dave Grohl not David Groh .. . David Groh ( Rhoda’s fame) was born in 1939 and died in 2008 . He was 68 .

Thanks captain obvious. And you forgot to say that Brenda is the voice of Marge from the Simpsons.

$175 back in 1975 is at least $1,750 today. She was in a studio apartment -- that's about right for the money. The dollar has been devalued by about 1000% over the past 45 years, in terms of essentials such as food or housing which reflect the true cost of living.

You also have to consider the fact that certain buildings had a rent control ceiling. Those apartments were rarely given up unless the renter died or bought a home outside the city.

And before they celebrated being obese and dressing like men

Hey!.....Agree, he was an obnoxious asshole.....

Lenny was a weirdo and a stalker. He got Carlton to let him up to Brenda's by lying in another episode. Ugh🤨

That's a very hard decision to come to when you're not in love, or lust.

Just NO

Haha it IS expensive ...that was 50 years ago

No way!! For a 1 bdrm in NYC??

With the same pay. Wages have not gone up. Many people sleep on that.

You're cute.

that was Wes Stern who was on a short-lived sitcom starring Bobby Sherman

Dude you’re a guy and he’s a guy smh 🤦🏻‍♂️ get therapy

it's pretty good actually. It's more healthy than sugar. :)

It's a bohemian look. Very popular during the 70's. Boho.

Well, that's Ohio for you. Lucky New York City residents were much better off, apparently.

+Emily Edwards She looks good in anything.

Emily Edwards It actually looked pretty good. Everything comes back in style down the road.........

Joey S ---Should watch more than one episode dear. 🙄

Not "should of". Should've ... it means "should have". Do people really think that "should of" and "would of" and "could of" make sense?

REMEMBER ITS ONLY A TV SHOW ONLY A TV SHOW ONLY A TV SHOW🤣

M1k3y Westley Stereotyping again..........dear sweet innocent naive lil Westley. If you think that’s restricted only to West Virginia in the great big world........you’re in for a shock. Pick up a book, travel, leave your tri state area for a change. Maybe even make a big jump and get a passport! Innocent boy.

3rd cousins really aren't that close biologically speaking.

Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth are 3rd cousins - it's pretty distant.

FDR and Eleanor third cousins. I wouldn't have married Lenny on a bet

That is absolutely disgusting and a horrible thing to say.