Archie Bunker was the self-proclaimed king of 704 Hauser Street. (The address was fictional, but the house shown in the closing credits is a real home in Queens, per the New York Daily News.) The king’s throne was a worn brown wing chair in the center of the living room. Anyone who dared park their keister on its sagging tweed seat would be met with an angry demand to “Get outta my chair!”

Aptly enough, Archie’s chair — and Edith’s smaller companion seat — were $10 thrift-store finds, not designer pieces, according to Smithsonian. The production staff thought they were a perfect fit for a comfortable blue-collar home. As “All in the Family” became a gigantic hit, Americans came to know and love the familiar living room where Archie would spout his un-PC opinions from his favorite chair. 

In 1978, when “All in the Family” had wrapped its eighth season, creator Norman Lear donated the chairs to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of History and Technology. It was the first time the D.C. museum had ever acquired an entertainment artifact. There was only one problem: Soon afterwards, CBS decided to bring the show back for one more season. Producers had to have new replica chairs made for the set, which cost $15,000. Talk about inflation!

Post source: The List

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