r/BeAmazed 15d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Conversation Pits Were a Popular Home Feature from the 1950s to 1970s, Designed for Social Interaction

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 15d ago

Its a shame so many of those amazing guys died from the aides, the amazing stories they could have told!!

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u/truethatson 15d ago

The aides? Their butlers killed them??

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u/lo_fi_ho 15d ago

It’s always the butler isn’t it?

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u/Nemisis_007 14d ago

Except Alfred, he's awesome.

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u/Turing_Testes 15d ago

Power to the people

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u/asiagomelt 14d ago

Someone warn Jared.

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u/earthlings_all 15d ago

The impact to the arts communities alone is just so devastating it hurts to think on it too much. Then to realize how much of their influence we lost everywhere else, truly a huge loss to the world.

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u/GTOdriver04 15d ago

One of my favorite artists musically is Patrick Cowley. He was a pioneer in EDM who sadly passed from AIDS in 1982 at only 32.

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u/WashedSylvi 14d ago

You might like this documentary

https://youtu.be/gcS2HXLq6Ow?si=V4IqB7_oatu8q-Y9

Can’t remember where it’s hosted but it’s not too hard to track down

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u/casket_fresh 15d ago

from the aides

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u/Androidgenus 14d ago

Jared was only able to lose so much weight because Jared has aides

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 13d ago

I thought he was a pedo?

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u/ijustlurkhere_ 14d ago

... died from the aides

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u/Fedantry_Petish 14d ago

*died from AIDS