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    Vintage Food Advertisements: Part Twenty-five

    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...
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    1978 WP Commercials - 16mm Film

    Sounds like the actor George Kennedy narrating the last spot.
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    The History of the Introduction of the Automatics thru Newspapers

    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...
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    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-two

    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?
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    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-one

    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!
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    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-one

    It looks nice. I suppose the Cosmic Eye was an automatic brightness control.
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    1972 Whirlpool TV Commercials - 16mm Film

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

    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.
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    1950's GE fridge compressor teardown and failure analysis...

    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!"
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    Favorite Household Cleaning Products

    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.
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    Console stereos: 1958-84

    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...
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    1962 Sunbeam Australia - How to Iron Guide

    Starting with sitting down to iron! The instructions for making your own clothes rack and "washing basket trolley" were unexpected. How times have changed.
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    Double-Duty Super-Surgilator – 16mm Film

    Great videos. I just can't help smiling at the first narrator's pronunciation of Worcestershire. The English don't like to pronounce place names like they're spelled, just to confuse us.;)
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    What Temp Is Your Thermostat Set?

    I don't need to have it on in the mornings, but afternoons/nights I've just been leaving it at 76. Once in awhile I turn it to 75 at bedtime. Fans are a big help but there's just so much they can do with high humidity. Willis Carrier's great insight was that air needs to be dehumidified as...
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    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty

    That Packard Bell ad is sooo 1968! The Mediterranean cabinet, the brown shag carpeting, the short, punchy sentences. Marvelous...or horrifying, take your pick.
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