Thread Number: 88085
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Remember the Red 1961 GE Range |
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Post# 1126706   8/24/2021 at 09:02 (947 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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The red 30" range was a one-year-only offering by General Electric. I've never found an official name for this color and I've never found any documentation about the range beyond this advertisement. I did own one for a while.
Recently I came across this advertisement from 1962 for a similarly-colored 1962 General Electric refrigerator. The color looks slightly different, but that could be due to lighting and/or photography; but again - no reference to this weird color or its name.
Does anyone know anything else about this color? Was GE experimenting with maybe something to replace Pink? Like the tabloid would say "enquiring minds want to know".
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Post# 1126711 , Reply# 1   8/24/2021 at 11:48 (947 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas)   |   | |
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This doesn’t answer your question and you’ve probably seen this but here’s a General Electric color timeline. In 2008 they called the red on their laundry units vermillion.
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Post# 1126713 , Reply# 2   8/24/2021 at 11:57 (947 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 1126733 , Reply# 4   8/24/2021 at 18:57 (947 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 1127032 , Reply# 5   8/27/2021 at 19:14 (944 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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I still think it was a promotional color for dealers to use to call attention to all of the features of their ranges. Put that in a window or on an end cap in a store display and it would attract shoppers. |
Post# 1127041 , Reply# 6   8/27/2021 at 20:40 (944 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 1127712 , Reply# 8   9/4/2021 at 10:21 (936 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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at our camp in Vermont (pic taken at original owners house). It needs some AutoCalrod tweaking but we'd never replace it.
We were looking for a Poppy FD 30" but this one popped up (sorry!) only 15 miles away.
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Post# 1127720 , Reply# 9   9/4/2021 at 11:47 (936 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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It's looking good and just as I remember mine. I might have kept mine longer had it not had a big-time short. Something in the left rear burner/switch wasn't happy and it tripped the breaker for the entire house, not just the breaker for the stove. I sold it with disclaimers - NEVER try to use the left rear burner without a serious repair.
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Post# 1127744 , Reply# 10   9/4/2021 at 17:48 (936 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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