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Thread Number: 64043
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The Real "Magic Chef" |
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Post# 866254 2/8/2016 at 23:19 (2,996 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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For your chilly winter evening viewing pleasure.
This house is to die for! www.newyorksocialdiary.com/the-wa... | ||
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Post# 866256 , Reply# 1 2/8/2016 at 23:33 (2,996 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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| Post# 866264 , Reply# 2 2/9/2016 at 00:01 (2,996 days old) by Travis () | ||
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That house and the owner is wonderful. | ||
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Post# 866274 , Reply# 3 2/9/2016 at 01:28 (2,995 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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 such a beautiful house! Some Magic Chefs used to be made 30 miles from me in Franklin, TN. Now it's a shopping/antiques mall called The Factory at Franklin. Next time I go I'll take some pictures of the vintage stoves sitting in the entrance. As the pictures on the website below scroll, the second one has "Magic Chef" painted on the water tower. CLICK HERE TO GO TO askolover's LINK | ||
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Post# 866291 , Reply# 4 2/9/2016 at 04:55 (2,995 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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That house and the owner is wonderful. | ||
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Post# 866307 , Reply# 5 2/9/2016 at 08:07 (2,995 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Laundress | ||
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Post# 866318 , Reply# 6 2/9/2016 at 09:03 (2,995 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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They do hold weddings at the "Magic Chef" mansion
Besides the tours....
sandbox.zettlphoto.com/magic-chef... Would love to see how the area looked when the house was first built. You can see from some of these and other photos that the area seems very built up now. Especially that large apartment building behind the mansion. laduenews.mycapture.com/mycapture... Interesting thing about the architecture is just like many old NYC residential buildings only the façade and perhaps sides of the MCM are decorated. The rear is rather plain. So the front has curb appeal meanwhile round back.... | ||
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Post# 866341 , Reply# 7 2/9/2016 at 12:16 (2,995 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Funny to see that antique bed pan on the corner shelf in the bathroom. | ||
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Post# 866384 , Reply# 8 2/9/2016 at 16:59 (2,995 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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| Post# 866396 , Reply# 9 2/9/2016 at 18:08 (2,995 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Magic Chef was first sold to Dortch in about 55 In 58 Dixie bought them, and eventually quit making Dixies and just made magic Chefs. | ||
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Post# 866404 , Reply# 10 2/9/2016 at 18:49 (2,995 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Quiet life
Well the last daughter died in 1990 or 1991 at 90 something years old, so guess indeed she led a quite life for the last decade or decades of her life.
If you examine pictures of the house before renovations by previous owner it is clear the property had been on the decline for years previously. Faded grandeur is what comes to my mind. Various Internet postings mention the "neglected" state of the place when the last daughter died in 1990. Cannot get over how much there is on the Web about this house and the family. You'd have thought they were royalty! *LOL* tedwight.typepad.com/st_louis_rea... www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/home-... | ||
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Post# 866412 , Reply# 11 2/9/2016 at 19:59 (2,995 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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There was a good bit of faded grandeur in the city of St. Louis (recall that the city of St. Louis is not the same as St. Louis County; which is suburbia) during the 70s-80s. A couple of points: the owner's dad was the head of Southwestern Bell, which was based in St. Louis until about 1990 (rather odd that you could look into the Illinois Bell territory from the Southwestern Bell HQ until HQ was moved to San Antonio); and the German burghers of St. Louis during the 20s-30s were quite wealthy and ostentatious (the Busch family, the Griesedick family, ...). There's a book on the making of the Joy of Cooking, Stand Facing the Stove, which discusses this interestingly (Irma Rombauer was widowed during the depression by her husband's suicide, but was a bit of a clubwoman in the German community).
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