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I remember this. Ashtrays were practically part of the furniture (especially coffee tables), even if you didn't have a smoker at home.
by hliyan 5mo ago
I remember this. Ashtrays were practically part of the furniture (especially coffee tables), even if you didn't have a smoker at home.
- SoftTalker 5mo agoAs was passing out cigarettes and cigars to all the guests, didn't see this so much in the USA but very common in Europe even into the late 1990s.
- pavlov 5mo agoElementary school children would make ashtrays as gifts for Father's Day. If dad didn't smoke, surely he had guests who did.
- hnlmorg 5mo agoYeah. I remember that too. It was such an odd thing to make at schools and kids clubs. But that’s through the lens of modern life.
- redwall_hp 5mo agoI vaguely remember living room chairs with built in ash trays (like how some have cup holders now). And in the late 90s, being on a plane and the chairs had a metal folding door on the armrest that exposed an ash tray. Smoking on planes was already gone or going away, but the hardware lingered for quite some time.
- cogogo 5mo agoThink these bins persisted on some aircraft until fairly recently. Maybe 10 yrs ago?
- cogogo 5mo agoHa my first ceramic project in elementary school art class was an ashtray. Smoking was everywhere.