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Thread Number: 51653
1948 GE Airliner 40-Inch Range - Luverne, MN |
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| Post# 740407 3/8/2014 at 17:20 (3,700 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Seller says to make an offer.
This range has the glass for the cooktop light missing, but otherwise seems to be pretty complete. Deep well cooker is not shown or mentioned. Airliners were an MOL choice at this point in GE's history. masoncity.craigslist.org/atq/4314... 
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| Post# 740408 , Reply# 1 3/8/2014 at 17:24 (3,700 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Here's What.... | ||
Post# 740409 , Reply# 2 3/8/2014 at 17:29 (3,700 days old) by Tomturbomatic  (Beltsville, MD) |
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I would rather have a range like this than the WCI POS offered for free in Mitchelville, IA. Quality-wise there is no comparrison. | ||
| Post# 740410 , Reply# 3 3/8/2014 at 17:31 (3,700 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Tom: | ||
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Post# 740438 , Reply# 4 3/8/2014 at 19:50 (3,700 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 740464 , Reply# 5 3/8/2014 at 20:48 (3,700 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Art could sell manure
A gifted man, I thought - that ad would definitely bring me in to look at the stove...There are four doors, one oven...are the rest for storage????
Not sure if that ad co-incided with his TV show, "Kids Say the Darned-est Things", which aired a long time on TV, but for people who might wonder who Art Linkletter was...check out this video, it'll have you laughing. | ||
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Post# 740472 , Reply# 6 3/8/2014 at 21:49 (3,700 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Well, at the time of this range, the program was not on TV. The Art Linkletter House Party had a segment where he interviewed kids and from that came the book KSTDT. I remember when his daughter dropped acid and jumped out of a building. | ||
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Post# 740476 , Reply# 7 3/8/2014 at 22:15 (3,700 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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| Post# 740548 , Reply# 8 3/9/2014 at 06:01 (3,700 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Another Airliner: | ||
| Post# 740728 , Reply# 9 3/9/2014 at 16:46 (3,699 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Phil:
"There are four doors, one oven...are the rest for storage????"
Took a while to find this pic on my hard drive, but here's your answer: There was only one oven on this range. The left-hand compartment was storage, as were the two drawers below. The upper-series Stratoliner shared this configuration with the Airliner, as it did everything else but styling - there were not any more features on the Stratoliner than on the Airliner, except for a fluorescent cooktop light instead of an incandescent one, plus the slightly snappier styling. My understanding is that there may have been a TOL Liberator model with a "companion oven" at the left, but that's an assumption pieced together from sketchy discussion of these ranges I've seen online. I have only two pages of the 1948 owner's manual from which the photo below was taken. 
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Post# 740733 , Reply# 10 3/9/2014 at 17:05 (3,699 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Thanks Sandy, I didn't think there were more ovens or Art LinkLetter would have smiled at both of them. :-)
That's a LOT of storage, but then...some people didn't have much storage, or if they did, they weren't using them for pots and pans /baking arsenal. That styling reminds again of some of the car designs of the period. | ||
| Post# 740745 , Reply# 11 3/9/2014 at 17:23 (3,699 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Phil:
You're right - those storage drawers were very important to homeowners of the period. In fact, for homeowners of some years to come. In "starter" tract housing of the late '40s and early '50s, eight feet of base cabinets was a lot. Those houses were very low-priced when new, but they were basic to a degree very, very few new homebuyers would be prepared to tolerate today.
P.S.: That Art Linkletter ad makes me want to run right out and buy an Airliner, some metal kitchen cabinets, a Cosco stool and several rolls of plaid wallpaper. This post was last edited 03/09/2014 at 17:48 | ||
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Post# 740876 , Reply# 13 3/10/2014 at 08:09 (3,699 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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