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Wow, great! I'd buy one if I could.

"The shadow of the coal shovel" It's often forgotten that you not only had to shovel coal into the furnace, you had to shovel ashes out. As a child I was puzzled by references to "ashcans." Weren't they just garbage cans? But that's what you put the ashes in before you lugged them up the...

47.6. Water is from the Clinch River downstream of the fairly deep Norris Lake.

That's a tough ask! I used it several times, but I don't know how to describe it. It wasn't strong or flowery, at any rate.

This made me curious. The bottle of Kroger Olive Oil mayo I have now lists the same ingredients Eddie listed above (with the addition of olive oil and whole eggs as well as egg yolks) but it also lists "modified potato starch" with an asterisk. "Ingredient not in regular mayonnaise" is what's at...

Sounds like the actor George Kennedy narrating the last spot.

The whole project is fascinating, Robert, thank you, but I'm particularly interested in how early Blackstone got their machine on the market. They were years ahead with a top loading automatic, and the only automatic that didn't need bolting down. Why they didn't take off more we can only...

Notice the Kelvinator ad says that they're all made with a brine tank to keep food cold 24 hours if the current is shut off. Wonder if @turbokinetic has ever had one in for repair?

Not to hijack the thread, but here are some beautiful Deco/Moderne Sparton radios from the Thirties. The first one has a cloisonné front; the next two are called the Bluebird model and have mirrored glass. Unfortunately they sell for thousands now, and they're just AM radios!

It looks nice. I suppose the Cosmic Eye was an automatic brightness control.

Yes that's Judd. But what did they mean, the first "true" frost free refrigerator-freezer? I thought Westinghouse had them years before that.

Wonder when Sparton left the TV market? They were a fairly big player in radios but I never saw or even heard of their TVs.

Thanks for another interesting inside look, David. My family was one of many that had a late Fifties GE fridge with a failed compressor and it might have been about the time we moved. Now I wonder if "the dolly did it!"

They've changed it since 2019 and it now has the quat disinfectant again. This kind of thing happens all the time with no notice to the consumer. You just have to read the labels. Another change since 2019 is that it now costs about $5 per can, although Costco has had 4 for $14 or thereabouts.

No, as I recall they kept making cabinets for years after the Philips acquisition. The TVs and cabinets were made in Greeneville, Tennessee, starting in the early to mid Fifties (not sure about the console hi-fi line) and I remember reading an article in the Knoxville paper when the cabinet...