Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The living-dining room
By Joan Martin
Those who grew up in the middle-class home of 30 or 40 years ago will remember the importance that was placed on the dining-room.
Everyone who was anybody had a dining-room, and the notion of dining elsewhere would have been very strange indeed.
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The dining-room was the setting for the family social circle, and it was there that to-day’s middle-ageds played card games and did homework or home dressmaking.
But in those days there were few middle-class homes that didn’t have an elder daughter at home or domestic help of some sort, and life moved at a more leisurely and gracious pace.
To-day the cost of living is astronomical, elder daughters have jobs, and help, even when available, is beyond the means of the average family.
Of sheer necessity the living-dining-room was born, and money is now diverted from space into labor-saving equipment.
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The best dining area