Thread Number: 82049  /  Tag: Ranges, Stoves, Ovens
old cooking show scene: St. Louis, MO 1962
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Post# 1060682   2/15/2020 at 20:49 (1,525 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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Publicity shot of a kitchen-though Magic Chef was based in St. Louis, I think that's probably a Caloric cooktop. Any ideas on the refrigerator?

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Post# 1060683 , Reply# 1   2/15/2020 at 20:52 (1,525 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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Another...clearly a Caloric oven...

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Post# 1060688 , Reply# 2   2/15/2020 at 21:25 (1,525 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        

Ref. may be Whirlpool or Sears Coldspot.

Post# 1060710 , Reply# 3   2/16/2020 at 08:58 (1,524 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Looks RCA Whirlpool


Post# 1060725 , Reply# 4   2/16/2020 at 14:36 (1,524 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)        

Lisa Douglas' pink Norge resembles that refer.


Post# 1060755 , Reply# 5   2/16/2020 at 19:39 (1,524 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Kelvinator

I think


Post# 1060767 , Reply# 6   2/16/2020 at 20:42 (1,524 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
The refrigerator

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Is differently an RCA Whirlpool, these were one of the best FF refs of the time, 1962-64.

 

John L.


Post# 1060796 , Reply# 7   2/17/2020 at 08:09 (1,523 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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That wouldn't be entirely out of the question, as Evansville is on the edge of the St. Louis media market. The ornate handle threw me.

Post# 1060808 , Reply# 8   2/17/2020 at 11:31 (1,523 days old) by mikael3 (Atlanta)        

The low-level cooktop struck me as odd.  Was that ever a common design?

 

I was also taken aback by the enormous silver tea set.  I wonder who the target audience was for this episode.


Post# 1060815 , Reply# 9   2/17/2020 at 14:09 (1,523 days old) by sfh074 ( )        
Same oven .....

as seen in the Dick Vandyke show.

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Post# 1060821 , Reply# 10   2/17/2020 at 16:26 (1,523 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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Suburban matrons in St. Louis. Unclear who sponsored (one of the supermarkets? Laclede Gas? Not clear to me.

Post# 1060822 , Reply# 11   2/17/2020 at 16:32 (1,523 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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One of my best friends in high school, his parents rented a house built in the early 1960s and it had a Caloric gas cook top and that same wall oven in some form of brown color.  


Post# 1060829 , Reply# 12   2/17/2020 at 17:21 (1,523 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
The refrigerator

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This is actually an RCA Whirlpool GAS refrigerator, and you can also see on the top right side of the FF door the words Ice Maker,

 

 

WP was the only company that ever build a gas fired Frost-Free refrigerator.

 

They got the Ice maker and gas technology when they bought Servel and continued building and improving Gas refrigerators for around a decade and finally gave up on the idea as gas refs were just not practical in terms of operating cost, and space efficiency, to say nothing of the enormous amount they put off.

 

In the early Beverly Hillbillies there were TWO of these WP Gas Refs SXS in the kitchen.

 

John L.


Post# 1060833 , Reply# 13   2/17/2020 at 18:22 (1,523 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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That would make sense, then, as Laclede Gas might well have sponsored it to get the homemakers to use Gas in the kitchen (like Jinx Falkenburg. Would love to see some information about it...looks quite deluxe from all the chrome trim.

Post# 1060868 , Reply# 14   2/18/2020 at 10:51 (1,522 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
JOHN!!

I wish you could GET me one of these gas refrigerators!!!!


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