Faux-wood was just everywhere at the time indeed. It was a mix of the materials getting affordable and a certain commodification of the hippie aesthetic.
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Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 8 months agoI think they were trying to make it look like the stereo equipment of the day.
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redbrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I love these academic responses…so wiki! Take my up vote!
redbrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dude don’t remind me. When I saw those I always thought they were contradictions of modern tech which was embodied in the whole advance HIFI shit. I mean how could you look at pulsing meters and blinking lights and not thing star wars, but clothed in wood grain…huh?