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Thread Number: 47436
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Post# 688927 , Reply# 1 7/12/2013 at 12:04 (3,933 days old) by kb0nes  (Burnsville, MN) |
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Post# 688928 , Reply# 2 7/12/2013 at 12:05 (3,933 days old) by kb0nes (Burnsville, MN) |
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Post# 688940 , Reply# 3 7/12/2013 at 12:56 (3,933 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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It's a Tappan Fabulous 400 & when I went to Graceland, I don't remember seeing a plexiglass guard around it; maybe they finally decided to make an effort to keep all the dust off it!
As for the tilt-out ice chute, Hotpoint was the first to offer that, while Whirlpool followed behind, w/ the Sears Kenmore (after the Coldspot moniker left, in '77 like The King did!) 'Tilt Ice' and Whirlpool's own 'Ice Magic', ice chutes! -- Dave | ||
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Post# 688956 , Reply# 4 7/12/2013 at 13:42 (3,933 days old) by luxflairguy (Wilmington NC) |
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I bet the plexiglass was put up to keep every inquisitive visitor from opening the oven doors! | ||
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Post# 688960 , Reply# 5 7/12/2013 at 14:06 (3,933 days old) by kb0nes (Burnsville, MN) |
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From my recollection there was a theater rope keeping the tour group out of the kitchen. I don't think I could have touched the range had I wanted to. I remember puzzling as to why then needed the Plex shield...
It was an interesting tour. I was never an Elvis fan but Annette is and her 9 year old daughter wanted to see Graceland. All in all the entire estate was kind of Mid-century Tacky. I don't know where the 117,000 square feet comes from. Wiki reports Graceland as being enlarged to 17,500 square feet. Perhaps if you add up all the out buildings on the property. | ||
| Post# 688968 , Reply# 6 7/12/2013 at 15:27 (3,933 days old) by classiccaprice (Hampton, Virginia) | ||
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Post# 688969 , Reply# 7 7/12/2013 at 15:32 (3,933 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Interesting | ||
| Post# 688970 , Reply# 8 7/12/2013 at 15:34 (3,933 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
Look at that | ||
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Post# 688973 , Reply# 9 7/12/2013 at 16:07 (3,933 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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For Some Reason
A damned fool in the 1960's or 1970's decided having carpet in the kitchen was a great idea. Well it had to be a man because obviously was someone who never had to clean the place.
Father thought it would be a good idea and when he granted permission for a kitchen redo sort of got Mother to go along. It didn't last very long! *LOL* Grease and food spills, constant traffic from pets, not to mention the area near doors to backyard and mud room quickly became so soiled that only weekly deep cleaning sufficed. So a new machine came into the house, a Hoover carpet/floor scrubbing machine. Which in theory *should* have worked but cleaning carpets is more work than mopping a floor. Not to mention carpets took longer to dry than a floor and so forth. IIRC the thing lasted a year give or take and was removed an new tiles put down. | ||
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Post# 688982 , Reply# 10 7/12/2013 at 16:52 (3,933 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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I believe that the figure of 117,000 must be all the buildings at Graceland, including the ones added on to create a museum. When our family saw Graceland, I noticed that the house itself was no bigger than most large suburban houses around here. The living room struck me as a bit small. I figured all of the "halls of fame" with the exhibits were add ons. The racquetball building he had was higher than a 3 car garage but no larger and it had a dinky bar. If I were Elvis, I would have had more than that. Actually, it looked like Elvis led close to a middle class life.
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| Post# 688997 , Reply# 11 7/12/2013 at 17:47 (3,933 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Graceland Wasn't Always This Way:
There are photos of Graceland in the '50s and early '60s, when it was originally decorated, largely by Elvis's mother.
At that time, it was sort of Old South meets Hollywood - certainly not an old-money family's house, but still, a pretty fair amount of restraint was shown. But in the late '60s, Elvis (and some say Priscilla Presley) started redecorating, and that was the end of any good taste. It was as if Elvis decided to turn the place into one big conversion van, with crushed velvet everything. I can't look at photos of the place as it looks today without shuddering. | ||
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Post# 689016 , Reply# 12 7/12/2013 at 18:42 (3,933 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA) |
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Yep, Dear ole Dad did the carpet in the kitchen with coordinating wall paper on the ceiling! | ||
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Post# 689074 , Reply# 15 7/13/2013 at 00:20 (3,933 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Middle class living is right! Then again, look at all that money spent on people Elvis bought Cadillacs for! (Regardless of how many records Elvis could sell, the budget probably eventually couldn't keep up... And does a certain Michael Jackson come to mind?)
I can't see a kitchen like that sufficient or efficient enough to feed the many people The King had over, either! (Unless there's a good double-wall oven tucked away somewhere...) And don't forget about washing all those dishes! There's at least a Kitchen Aid D/W, in avocado, but it's not top-of-the-line, so somehow anything even under Superba, did good enough as long it was a K-A...! But, then, scrubbing all those pans & pots! -- Dave | ||
| Post# 689118 , Reply# 17 7/13/2013 at 05:21 (3,932 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Arthur:
"I got the feeling that the Tappan pull out stove may have been in the house when Elvis bought it. The house IIRC was built by a local physician, it may have a had a kitchen remodel before Elvis purchased it explaining the Tappan Fabulous."
Elvis bought Graceland in 1957, years before that range and the other appliances were made. The kitchen remodel dates somewhere from the late 1960s to the early 70s, during the years Elvis was married to Priscilla Presley. | ||
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Post# 689974 , Reply# 20 7/17/2013 at 03:45 (3,928 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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If that were the only oven on the premises, whether one or two, it would not be the most convenient to use...
Surely there has gotta be a nice wall-one somewhere, especially given Elvis' hearty appetite, most everything on the table had to have been oven-made... Cooktop stuff, no matter how many burners, wouldn't do much, unless the ones under the oven weren't used when the oven was, but if so, then the cooktop w/o the oven over it would be; just my speculation... -- Dave | ||
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Post# 689997 , Reply# 21 7/17/2013 at 08:14 (3,928 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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