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Thread Number: 69225
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
What your kitchen looked like the year you were born |
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| Post# 920476 2/10/2017 at 06:45 (2,630 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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Post# 920477 , Reply# 1 2/10/2017 at 07:06 (2,630 days old) by turquoisedude  (.) |
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I have proof... Of what the kitchen looked like the year I was born! My father insisted that I save the old family photos and albums - I found this relic and wanted to share it. I hope this won't be deemed offensive but the nekkid little dude on the table is indeed me!
That's a '57 GE refrigerator (white). Not shown - the '57 Frigidaire Super range. The picture has to have been taken in summer of 1963 at a house in Beaconsfield, Quebec that I do not remember. We moved from that house to Hudson later that year.
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| Post# 920481 , Reply# 2 2/10/2017 at 07:48 (2,630 days old) by TheSpiritOf76 (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and OZ All Together. ) | ||
I dont want to know since I was born in 1988...=(...
But I will borrow my Mothers birth year, 1959, and post a pic of what my grand parents kitchen looked like! I love the GE fridge,that is really the highlight of the following photo for me.
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Post# 920506 , Reply# 4 2/10/2017 at 10:36 (2,630 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 920514 , Reply# 5 2/10/2017 at 12:03 (2,630 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 920515 , Reply# 6 2/10/2017 at 12:16 (2,630 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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| Post# 920516 , Reply# 7 2/10/2017 at 12:17 (2,630 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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| Post# 920518 , Reply# 8 2/10/2017 at 12:37 (2,630 days old) by maytag63 (South Berwick, Maine) | ||
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Post# 920520 , Reply# 9 2/10/2017 at 13:16 (2,630 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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slide 11 FINALLY a photo that has the exact model O'Keefe & Merrit wall oven & 42" gas cooktop that was in coppertone in our brand new house in September 1961.
Anyone identify the dishwasher in slide 28? This post was last edited 02/10/2017 at 13:45 | ||
| Post# 920521 , Reply# 10 2/10/2017 at 13:21 (2,630 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
our 1950 kitchen:
brand new house: 1950 Frigidaire fridge, 1950 Magic Chef 40" range, weird Jackson Pollack-looking linoleum floor: Kelly green with random yellow, red,and white irregular splotches/spots, knotty pine cabinets, light green flax-pattern Formica with stainless edging, white porcelain double sink with Hudee ring, 4 shelf chrome wire storage rack in the corner, Early American Ethan Allen kitchen table for 6 with 6 matching chairs, swinging door to the DR... and unfortunately no d/w until 15 years later :-(
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Post# 920523 , Reply# 11 2/10/2017 at 13:55 (2,630 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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I was born in 1951 and the earliest kitchen that I remember would be the house we moved into in 1952 and left in 1954. I can remember back to about 1953. The kitchen cabinets were painted what my Mom always called Forget Me Not Blue the walls were white. We had a 30 in., probably BOL O'Keeffe and Merritt gas stove and a small Servel gas refrigerator. The counter tops were black and white tile and the floor was red linoleum. The wooden kitchen table and chairs were also painted the same blue as the cabinets.
My Mom was very proud of her OKeeffe and Merritt stove, it was the first new appliance my parents bought since they were married in 1948. One Saturday morning my brother and I were up before our parents watching cartoons on TV. We went into the kitchen to get some thing to eat and saw a fly on Mom's new stove. Since we knew she wouldn't want that fly on the stove I took the nearest handy item I could find to kill it, which was unfortunately for me and the stove a hammer. I whacked the stove, missed the fly and left a permanent fly sized chip in the porcelain. This resulted in a spanking. Every time after that when I looked at the stove I saw that fly! Eddie | ||
| Post# 920527 , Reply# 12 2/10/2017 at 14:13 (2,630 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
 I also question the accuracy of things like this. One photo of a kitchen is supposed to define every kitchen in America...except it really doesn't.
I have no idea what our kitchen looked like...but I doubt that it was a kitchen shown in a fancy decorating magazine as "Today's Kitchen." Indeed, I doubt we ever had anything remotely resembling a current kitchen. The one kitchen I recall was the one in my last childhood home, where we moved in the mid-70s. It was a mix of eras--wood cabinets probably original to the 1950s house, newer linoleum that might have been someone in date when we moved in, etc. The only remodelling we did in 16 years was adding a wall (the original dining room/kitchen wall had been taken out, and my parents added that wall back). Otherwise, the only changes were things like paint colors, and my mother pretty much did what she felt like doing, and who cares what the decorating magazines say one is supposed to do? | ||
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Post# 920533 , Reply# 13 2/10/2017 at 15:35 (2,630 days old) by Petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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I'll have to find some pictures of the kitchen in the first house I was born to. Nothing fancy, just typical of the time.. L shaped counters across the front and side wall. Stove was on the very left end over to a single sink in front of the window looking out towards the street, and then down the side was a few more feet of counters and the fridge on the end of that,, then the doorway to the hall. What it did have I wished I had a picture of was the 9x9 tile flooring,, in the center they were arranged to look somewhat star shaped. On the other wall was a much larger window overlooking the driveway where we had the usual for the time chrome kitchen set with the red crackled ice formica and matching chairs.
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Post# 920585 , Reply# 17 2/10/2017 at 19:46 (2,630 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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#28 Looks like a Thermador/Waste King
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Post# 920666 , Reply# 18 2/11/2017 at 05:44 (2,629 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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 My parents' year 1968 built kitchen, in 1971 had a 40 inch Frigidaire coppertone range with matching hood, a double coppertone sink, and Frigidaire refrigerator also in coppertone. In 1974 a Kitchenaid Superba in coppertone was added. The cabinets were a neutral stained oak with almost white countertops and the floor through the whole house except for the bedrooms was this poured stuff with colored flecks sprinkled in it, was very popular in our area at the time. They later covered that poured floor around 1976 or '77 with seamless vinyl in beautiful gold, red, brown, and yellow/orange. | ||
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Post# 920682 , Reply# 19 2/11/2017 at 06:45 (2,629 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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My great-aunt and uncle built a house in Tulsa in 1970 which to me was the epitome of a house of the 1970s and had a kitchen which was very cool. She was working on her first cookbook, which was published in 1973, and she was giving cooking classes, so the kitchen was an absolute showplace and was set up for giving classes. About 22 ft wide by 12 ft deep, it was an avocado showplace (avocado formica counters, dark wood cabinets, avocado appliances) with about a 15 foot peninsula counter with mirror above (where she taught from) opening into the clubroom/family room (where she could set up chairs for her classes), It was hopelessly exotic for me...both electric (Frigidaire) and gas (Modern Maid 2 burner) cooktops, two 30 inch built in Frigidaire ovens, 3 sinks (2 for prep, one for bar) multiple KitchenAid mixers, etc etc. She kept flour in a garbage can, for heaven's sake! Looked like Julia Child could step right in and host her show.
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| Post# 920698 , Reply# 20 2/11/2017 at 08:04 (2,629 days old) by Xraytech (Rural southwest Pennsylvania ) | ||
Being born in the 80s our kitchen looked nothing like in the article, however it seemed common in regards to other 80s kitchens in the area
We had an L shaped kitchen with medium wood tone Formica cabinets, beige Formica counters, an avocado GE gas range and matching fridge. On the counters sat a JCPenney microwave, the Sears Neil the Frog canister set as well as a set of Acrylic Tupperware canisters. There was a brown brick patterned vinyl floor and a small wood dinette set Now my paternal grandmother had the quintessential 60s Early American kitchen. Rustic wood cabinets, hammered iron hardware, the classic white Formica with gold flecks. Built in TOL 1965 GE 24" wall oven, dishwasher, and sxs fridge with ice dispenser all in avocado and matching range hood over a stainless 46" cooktop. There was a brown Spanish tile print glued down carpet, an aged copper and milk glass chandelier over a maple dinette with matching ladder back chairs and a matching serving cart. There was a red brick backsplash with her Revere Ware hung for display, Anericana wallpaper on the bulkhead above the cabinets, and white Priscilla curtains with Coppertone colored ruffles and avocado green Roman shades under them in the windows | ||
| Post# 920907 , Reply# 22 2/12/2017 at 09:21 (2,628 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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"country kitchen" My folks also had one in the 70's. Medium tone oak wood, light yellow Irish linen work tops, harvest gold appliances, and some paneling on a feature wall that had wallpaper on it with old fashioned coffee grinders. Ours are Tuscan and transitional style today. | ||
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Post# 921183 , Reply# 24 2/13/2017 at 19:22 (2,627 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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The house I was "born into" was a rental and I don't recall anything about living there. I have seen a (birthday party) picture that shows part of the kitchen, and told that the washer was in a closet behind my high chair. We moved to a newly-built house in early 1964 which had a U-shaped kitchen with turquoise wall oven, cooktop, and hood, turquoise porcelain sink, white bottom-freezer refrigerator, orange Formica countertops, and custom-built cabinetry. | ||
| Post# 921758 , Reply# 25 2/16/2017 at 10:35 (2,624 days old) by DishwasherRules (Italy) | ||
Snaidero "Old America" 1974
When I was born my parents had the same kitchen in the pic, except it was white with an ash-wood countertop and the dishwasher was all stainless steel. The name for this model was "Old America".
Sorry for the bad-quality pic, but it's the best I could find (my folks no longer have this kitchen: it was changed in the 90s). | ||
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