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Thread Number: 77571
/ Tag: Refrigerators
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Post# 1015641 11/24/2018 at 12:40 (1,978 days old) by JustJunque  (Western MA) |
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Hi all,
While visiting my mom yesterday, we were going through some old pictures, and I found this one. I was thinking about making this my profile picture, since I don't think I have any that show me with the washer and dryer. This is me, circa 1972. It's possible that it was the first day of school, since it was taken in September, and I'm definitely stylin'. I chose the category of "refrigerators" for this post, but there are actually a few kitchen appliances visible. Most obvious is the Frigidaire refrigerator. If you look at the far right of the picture, there's a brown (or coppertone?) Frigidaire electric stove. On the countertop, there's an electric frying pan. I don't remember the brand. Underneath that cool, 1970s looking cover, there's a Toastmaster toaster. And, to the left of that, barely visible, and also under a matching cover, is either an Osterizer blender, or a chrome Sunbeam Mixmaster. I liked appliances even then, and used to occasionally break out some cleaning products and shine them up. If anyone can identify models and years of the stove and refrigerator, that would be cool. Sorry you can't see the stove better. I believe they got rid of it because one of the burners went rogue one day. They used to leave a coffee pot on a back burner, just on the lowest setting, to keep it hot. We had gone out somewhere, and they left it on. I find it hard to believe that they did that on a regular basis, but they might have. When we got home, the burner had apparently gotten hotter than what it was set for, burned the bottom out of the coffee pot, and the house was full of smoke. After that, I don't think they ever left a burner on when nobody was home. And I believe their next stove was a gold, natural gas, Magic Chef. Barry
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Post# 1015646 , Reply# 1 11/24/2018 at 13:46 (1,978 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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I would not leave an infinite heat unit on unattended because the controls can stick open. A fixed heat, whether 5 or 7 heat switch, will only admit so much electricity through a given switch position so it's safer, unless the unit or switch shorts out. | ||
| Post# 1015647 , Reply# 2 11/24/2018 at 14:36 (1,978 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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I like the definate Position heats better, when the infinite switches get old they get crazy sometimes, with the 5 or 7 heat units you always get exactly the same heat. | ||
| Post# 1015648 , Reply# 3 11/24/2018 at 14:37 (1,978 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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I think The stove and fridge are around 66 ,67 or 68 somewhere close to that. | ||
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Post# 1015653 , Reply# 4 11/24/2018 at 14:58 (1,978 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA) |
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Hans, | ||
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Post# 1015707 , Reply# 5 11/25/2018 at 07:10 (1,977 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Okay, let’s wonder what kind of stove that is:
Dave
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Post# 1015709 , Reply# 6 11/25/2018 at 07:15 (1,977 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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A Frigidaire Super stove in the background:
— Dave
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Post# 1015711 , Reply# 7 11/25/2018 at 07:29 (1,977 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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I got all over my mom wonderful what this push button range was:
There was no General Electric or Hotpoint on it—it seems to say Kenmore and came with whatever house we lived in, before we’d gotten taken over by Bradford’s from Grant’s where Dad worked at... I didn’t even know Sears had a push button stove made for them... (the OTHER mystery: What was ANYTHING that was Sears or just not W.T. Grant’s doing in that house? The previous dwellings could have been apartments, maybe?) — Dave
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| Post# 1015721 , Reply# 8 11/25/2018 at 10:31 (1,977 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Thats a 57 Kenmore, Yes many companies besides GE and Hotpoint had pushbutton stoves, BUT GE Made ALL the switches..LOL, The stove itself was made by a Roper affiliate called Newark Ohio Incorporated.These had 7 heats instead of GEs 5 heats. | ||
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Post# 1015730 , Reply# 9 11/25/2018 at 13:26 (1,977 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA) |
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Hey Dave, | ||
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Post# 1016852 , Reply# 10 12/5/2018 at 00:17 (1,967 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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"Junque", don't quote me entirely calling that stove "Super", if I never grew beyond that age you see me photographed at the time... I must'a thought that particular model-name, though I certainly don't know specifically--it could be Deluxe..., Custom..., Custom Deluxe...--definitely not Imperial!--was a nice "tag", to call it, than just "Frigidaire"...
Sorry about that first pic being sideways--as if that doesn't perplex you enough still not able to figure out what make of range that is--or even if it's electric or gas... And that's not tile ripped off the flooring, either--I'm standing on carpet... Should I have had the foresight to tell Mom and Dad to take some good, detailed pictures of all of their appliances (including the washer I sat in front of, maybe up in my mom's arms watching her turn the knob to, and vividly saying "soak", while there was a light bulb in a pull chain I saw off, except when I think she let me turn it on, up above), knowing years later, I would be here on the Internet, telling you about all this & showing you what pics I do have...???? -- Dave | ||
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Post# 1017038 , Reply# 11 12/6/2018 at 07:37 (1,966 days old) by dermacie (my forever home (Glenshaw, PA)) |
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