r/BeAmazed • u/kennny41 • 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/BullsOnParadeFloats 15d ago

Yeah. Napping. That's exactly what these were used for.

The keys in the fishbowl were for finding your napping partner.

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u/Alb4t0r 15d ago

House of Cards from Radiohead has this line: "Throw your keys in the bowl; kiss your husband goodnight", and I remember once reading it was a vague reference for swinging, but here after all these years I find someone else referencing the same expression.

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u/Anonymike7 15d ago

You should look up "key parties."

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u/nexusjuan 15d ago

There was an episode of Love American Style where the lead played by Andy Griffith is a hillbilly who somehow ends up at a key party but can't catch on to why everybody's putting keys in a bowl. He thinks they're trading cars he's like oh boy I got a convertible!

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u/TacoCommand 14d ago

Wait like THE Andy Griffith from the cop show?

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u/BearstromWanderer 14d ago

No, Andy Griffith from The Andy Griffith Show.

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u/New_Boysenberry_7998 14d ago

wait until you meet The Man Who Met Andy Griffith.

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u/nexusjuan 14d ago

Yep he played Matlock too. I found the episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMn5c6BTsYE&pp=ygUrYW5keSBncmlmZml0aCBsb3ZlIGFtZXJpY2FuIHN0eWxlIGtleSBwYXJ0eQ%3D%3D I completely mis-remembered it. It's Mike from the Brady Bunch hosting it, and I don't recognize the hillbilly.